I get this question surprisingly often.
“I don’t get it,” they start. “Why do you keep a blog? I thought you liked your job.”
“I do. Very much. I’m not looking.”
“Then why do you keep a blog?”
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The Art of Living
August 9, 2008 By 4 Comments
Every once in a while, someone enters your life and alters your path.
Are you aware enough to know when it’s happening? (It might be happening right now, with this blog posting.)
Shyam Nair altered my path. We met at StockPot, Campbell’s fastest growing division at the time, when I was Director of Marketing there. We made the best soup I have ever tasted for foodservice and retail distribution.
Shyam and I became fast friends after he spoke at a leadership forum we had.
In a thick accent I hardly understood, he gushed about the potential he saw at the company. Then, slowing down, he apologized. “I know I’m hard to understand when I get so excited!” I laughed and sought him out after the meeting.
One day we went for a walk during lunch and I was grousing about some such thing. Shyam put up his hand and said, “Joe, I’m not going to listen to one more complaint until you take a course with The Art of Living.” (Watch this MSNBC video.) He explained it would bring me some peace and help me meditate through my dissatisfaction.
Hey, I’m from Brooklyn. There’s no way I’m taking that class, I thought. I like to sleep. There’s no way I can close my eyes and not sleep. I don’t have the patience to meditate. I’m not sitting in the lotus position and I don’t believe any of that stuff. If it works for you, great, but it’s not for me.
