Comments on: The Feeling of Great Work

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:30:33 +0000

Debbie – yes, it feels like you’re at a tipping point there. Good luck with the decision

By: Debbie

Debbie — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:23:52 +0000

Ouch! I am in the middle of making a decision whether or not to shrink my hours in my corporate job so that I may make space in my life for a long-held dream. I have made the decision to stay where I am (although won’t officially response until later today).

Read my e-mail to a friend with whom I have been discussing this choice:

There are many things I could point to that makes me lean one way or the other; however, I think the one that will finally hold sway over the decision is that I am so unsettled over moving to the new department and changing to part-time. If I am moving forward toward what is the right decision for me, I would expect a sense of calm or at least a sense of determination.

Reading your blog posting at this particular time is quite interesting……

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:14:07 +0000

thanks, Cynthia ~

By: Cynthia Morris

Cynthia Morris — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 03:55:32 +0000

Thanks for this reminder! I find myself feeling that when I launch things, or when I’m thinking really big about what I want for people and how I can do that with my work.

Love what you are doing; thanks for your great work!

By: Radim Mrkvicka

Radim Mrkvicka — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:57:14 +0000

Dear Michael,
you are great with making things visible. And this is very important. Once we can see the ghost we can invite him, have a few coffees (beers ;o) ) and the ghost is no longer our enemy. ;o) I have felt a lot of times beeing out of my “comfort zone” and you have described it perfectly.

You are doing “The great work” and it is going to be success!

Good luck and sleep,
Radim

By: Jennifer Louden

Jennifer Louden — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:23:54 +0000

And I know this is going to be huge and so helpful and mostly really fun too!

By: Business Heart » Great Work sucks, and feels miserable, too.

Business Heart » Great Work sucks, and feels miserable, too. — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:40:49 +0000

[...] was reading what my friend Michael Bungay Stanier wrote on the Feeling of Great Work, and I totally agree. [...]

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:14:01 +0000

Mark

Thank you. Nice to have a comrade in arms on the web…

By: Mark Silver

Mark Silver — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 12:55:09 +0000

Hey Michael,

Glad you had a sleepless night, too. Well, I did get about five hours of sleep, but we’re in the midst of launching a new product, plus we’re holding a retreat in October, AND we’re integrating our first-ever full-time employee. And I’m definitely a little shaken, tender.

I think I better go re-read my own article.

And, you’re Great Work is amazing. I’m really excited by it. And, it HAS to do well… because I want to follow in your footsteps.