You may not know the name Milton Glaser, but you may know at least one of his artworks – the slogan “I ‘Heart’. In his book, Art is workGlaser provides these provocative definitions of work:

1. The work that exceeds its functional intention and moves us in deep and mysterious ways that we call the great work.

2. The work that is designed and implemented with the elegance and accuracy that we call good work.

3. The work that meets the intended need honestly and without an excuse that we call simply the work.

4. Everything else, sad and smelling things from daily life, can be under the title of bad work.

I combine the second and third discrimination for Glaser for only three categories: great work, good work and bad work. (And “work”, I speak all the “things you do.” Not only is what you do in the office, but what you do around the clock throughout the week. The work includes caring for your children, watching TV, preparing meals, exercising, dealing with friends, being alone, etc.).

How do you know what? This is my Litmus test.

Wonderful work

Wonderful work brings joy and terrorism with him. You are pleased when someone asks you about what you are doing, and they have a problem getting stop talking about it. You can take advantage of courage reserves and chutzpah to accomplish what to do. You often have no idea how to do what to do – and you only fade a little, because you are sure that this is what you really should do.

The great work is the place where the influence and influence excels on efficiency and practical. It is often the place of waste, because creativity needs to be wasting to die. It is a place of inspiration, where suddenly all your past logical (“A-Ha! For this reason I did it, I learned it, I faced it”). It is a place that honors your skills, passion and experience.

The great work is also a difficult place. The temptation to “reduce the classification” to the comfort of good work is fixed. The “internal critic” is rampant, whispering “Who are you to try this? Who do you think you will be ambitious? Don’t you know that you are doomed?” Wonderful work can be out of reach, because it can decompose in a moment to be just a good work. To do a great job, you should be awake.

good job

With good work, there is no attached defect. You do a job that uses your skills, gets things, and may pay you a wage. It is comfortable, because you know what you are doing. It may be something routine or usually.

So it’s not a bad time. It is only when strangers ask you what you do, sometimes, it seems that you are trying to persuade yourself more than that this is great. It is often good work about “being effective”, without asking the difficult question at all. “Is this the right work to be effective?” (Peter Dicker says this: “Efficiency does things properly; effectiveness does the right things.” Within a year, you will not remember the good work you were doing a year ago.

As for bad work, the test is simple. When you have this sudden flash of perception and ask yourself: Why exactly I waste my life with this?

Take action

This is a quick exercise. Draw a large circle on a piece of paper. Now, divide it into three sectors that represent the percentage of each of these types of work in your life today.

How great do you do? More than 80 %? Less than 20 %?

In my experience, many of us do a good job of good work – but a little great work. The goal is to remove bad work from our lives, and to constantly increase the amount of work.

What should you say, “No”, to double the extent of the great work in your life? What should “Yes”, to the half of the bad work in your life?

Wonderful work resources

– Peter Block, answering how it is yes – Michael Pongy Stanner, get a lack of twisting and going …

Copyright 2004 Michael Bungay Stanier, Coloring Fund

About the author: Michael Pongy Stanner, is an accredited coach, a researcher and author of the best -selling training tool, get http://www.getunstuckandGetgon.com . Subscribe to Michael’s free outside EZINE lines in http://www.boxofcrayons.biz.