If You Have to Ask
All right, so here we are, Monday Message, middle of July. I saw this quote a couple of months ago actually. It said, “If you have to tell them to help you carry the bricks, then they’re not the ones to build with.”
It gets me to think about my core values, and I think about the company’s core values—things like invested, putting service above self, investing your time into others, and humility. All those great things. Being valuable because nothing less will do. Lazy people are not invested and not helpful. You constantly have to tell them to carry the bricks and help. We’ve all been there, especially as children.
I just recently got done having a long session with my boys. Every morning we get up and do a little bit of chores, whether it be something in the house—sweeping, mopping, vacuuming, doing toilets—or pulling weeds, trimming rose bushes, and things like that around the house. It doesn’t matter what it is; we are doing a little bit of work before we go play.
Work Hard, Play Hard—that’s kind of my motto. We focus on that kind of stuff.
That’s what I love about Northwest Enforcement. I love the men and women that lend a helping hand. I love hearing about how team members are rising to the occasion to help out and do great work. And team leaders too. I love seeing those kinds of things. I love the fact that we don’t have to ask people to carry bricks. We’ve got some barbecues coming up, and I love to watch the men and women help support the pickup, cleanup, and setup. I love seeing our team members lending a hand. I love seeing our team leaders lending a hand to serve and help their teammates. That’s what it’s all about.
If you have to be telling people all the time to help carry the load, then they’re not necessarily the people you want helping you build a company, build a house, or whatever it is. If you’re constantly having to tell somebody else in a relationship to help you, no matter what that relationship is, if you’re doing all the work in that relationship, they might not be somebody you should be hanging out with long-term. Sometimes it just requires a little bit of talk, a little bit of movement. With my boys and for most of us when we were younger, it takes a minute for us to realize the importance of it.
We enforce the discipline in order for it to sink in, for it to become habit-forming for us later on in life.
If that’s not you, if you’re on the lazy road, there’s always time to turn around. There’s always time to become valuable because nothing less will do. There’s always time to do something different and not take the easy way out. Work hard, dedicate hard, focus hard, and success follows that determination and discipline.
So remember that. God bless you guys. It is a beautiful Monday. I’m enjoying summer; I hope you are too. I look forward to seeing you next week, or perhaps on Monday next week, or perhaps on Wednesday for Wednesday Workshop, whichever comes first. God bless you guys. I’ll see you next week. Bye, see you.
