Values are a funny things, everyone has them. As human beings we also have desires that we all aspire to.
Both can be added to the working environment also and every business has (or at least, should have) its own core values. Happy Creative believes very strongly in this concept.
Every Monday morning we are set a Creative Challenge from our creative director, a chance to get our brain cells buzzing ahead of the working week.
This week I failed, pretty miserably, but it did get me thinking so I guess it wasn’t a total waste of time. My thought? What do you really want out of life?
Money? Companionship? A body to rival an Olympic athlete? The riches of a rock star or that getaway in the Bora Bora? Think about this for a minute and then open your eyes…
Values
Do you have any of that? Most of us don’t but it’s something we aspire to. As a company, Happy Creative has its own values, the things we like to do our business by. The key value is making our clients Happy.
And this is how it should be for everyone. If you want the riches, the love, the body and the lifestyle you’ve dreamt of then you have to be prepared to sacrifice things. More importantly, if you want to succeed and gain these things you are going to have to work. Very hard, non-stop in fact.
Allow me to explain.
We all want something in life; lots of us wish for things to come or to happen bad enough that we do what we can to make it happen – whether that means through turning our thoughts to a higher power, superstition, not walking under ladders etc…
And good on those people who do that. You have your values and you are sticking to them but if you want that desire to manifest itself then you have to be prepared to put in the hard work. Working towards that goal will pay off in the end.
Confused?
It’s quite simple really. If we want those dreams to happen then we should be asking how much we are willing to sacrifice and how much of the unpleasant stuff are we willing to experience. We also have to ask ourselves what our desires are and do we really want it as much as we say we do.
Damian Budny is a Creative Thinker and Web Developer at Happy Creative, a full service marketing and creative agency based in Blackpool, Lancashire. To learn more or contact us please go to www.happy-creative.co.uk
