Rob posted up the other day that we’d hit the 100,000 download mark with the SharePoint Podshow (we’re actually well over it now). While a nice milestone – I thought we’d actually get there quicker! So if you know someone who isn’t listening get them subscribed. Whether they are into SharePoint or not doesn’t really matter!
As Rob said in his post we really enjoy recording the shows. I obviously work with Brett so we get along well, and I’m yet to find someone who doesn’t enjoy talking with Rob – and so it all goes along nicely. Of course the important people in the podshow are the people we interview and thankfully we’ve had many volunteers come forward to speak about what they do and share their knowledge.
Enjoying what you do and continually learning in the context of the SharePoint Podshow reminded me of something I read in a book called Mental Ketchup which I finished just before the weekend. The book covers training your brain for high performance – both in terms of sport and business, I highly recommend getting yourself a copy.
Anyway, the book describes a triangle with the words results, enjoyment and learning at each point.
(sorry for my badly drawn triangle)
Too many people get themselves too far into the results corner of the triangle and although things may start off well – without the other two areas to balance things out the quality will be effected and results will in the end suffer.
The best place to be is right in the middle – so you are continually learning, enjoying what you are doing – and quite often the results will follow and improve without you even realizing.
I managed to use this myself at the weekend in a golf competition. All last year I was very focused on wanting to win and counting my score as I went round. I ended up being so nervous and stressed about the score on each hole I didn’t enjoy it and my scores were bad. Last Sunday it was a lovely sunny morning, I kept focusing on how great it was to be outside – while still thinking each individual shot though and planning it carefully. I didn’t focus on the score of each hole though. Low and behold I get in the club house and I am in the lead – and it finishes up that way – a great start to the new golfing season!
So whatever you get up to – sport, blogging, twitter, work – make sure you stay in the middle of the triangle and you’ll get the enjoyment, learning and results you really want.