This environmental movement has some key principles which are quite thought provoking when applied to your career:
1. Sustainability
No point being highly efficient in your career if you burn out. The rates of stress leave and illness in our society are testament to the difficulty that people have in operating at a sustainable pace in their career.
2. Leave the world a better place
The emotional cry of environmentalists is that we are only custodians of the planet for our children's generation. In other words, leave the world a better place then when you arrived. What a great goal to have. What difference will you be remembered for?
3. Renew, Reuse, Recycle
The three R's. We have to renew ourselves several times throughout our career. I was only talking with someone yesterday who had built up her business over the last 8 years and was excited about the prospect of selling so that she could do something else. She felt a career renewal was in the air.
Our career also involves reusing the skills and knowledge that we have to propel us on to other things. Our skill set is our foundation but it needs to be looked after so that it remains current and can be enhanced.
Experience is the best teacher so learn from your past and recycle what worked well. Build on your strengths. Recycle out what didn't work so well.
4. Innovate
I believe that the power of big hairy audacious goals such as the Kyoto Protocol is that it forces us to innovate to achieve the goal.
Take time to create a picture in your mind of your ideal future. Be bold with this picture. Once you have it in focus your subconscious will slowly move you toward this place. It will require some innovative thought and action. It will be exciting and confronting. You'll be scared and exhilarated.
It's called life.
Enjoy the ride.
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