Gregg Braden

And...

I read it to this day, and there are different pieces that mean different things to me throughout my life.

But there was one piece where he talked about work.

And in the environment I grew up in, my father hated his job.

He hated work.

My friends all hated their work.

They just wanted to make money.

This is on every email that I write right at the bottom.

Khalil Gibran said, work is love made visible.

And I like that because it means that

When we're going to do something, you do it to the best of your ability and even more or don't do it at all.

If you're going to do it, do it really, really well and find a way to give meaning to what you're doing.

So, you know, I went to work.

I used to work midnight to 6 a.m.

in a warehouse loading warehouses.

I don't talk about this a lot, but I was loading 50-pound bags of Purina cat chow on the boxcars so they could go out in the morning to distribution.

And the guys I work with, man, they hated their job.

And I said, you know what?

If I do this just right, 50-pound bags, if I use my legs, I can get a pretty good leg workout out of this.

And then when I'm done with that after dinner, I'll come back, and I can get a good upper body workout, and I can use my arms.