What do you want to be when you grow up?
It’s a legitimate question. It’s fun to ask it of little kids graduating from kindergarten—firefighter, pro football player, ballerina. It’s important to ask it to teens considering where to go to college and what to study—entrepreneur, engineer, graphic designer.
But it’s a question that’s just as important for you and me to answer because it inspires us to dream—to step out of the comfort of who we are to become who we were meant to be.
Lately, it seems, all my friends are starting businesses. Ok, not all of them… but it seems to be happening all around me: a publishing company, a flower shop, a fabric store, and now a coffee shop. And it’s great to see a line at the drive-up window on this, the opening day of Evart’s […]
Just like serving bad food with a smile isn’t the mission of [most] restaurants, simply providing great service isn’t our mission either. Sure, it supports our mission. It helps us accomplish our mission. But it’s not our mission.
These three questions keep my focused on the three most important things in my work: our mission, our vision, and the people that help us live them out every day.