What The First Snowfall Can Teach us About Work

Imagine waking up to 6 inches of snow outside.

Going to bed, everything was dark and grey and brown. Open your eyes and the world is blanketed in white.
Still and quiet. It’s pristine.

It begs you to keep looking out the window. To keep checking every few minutes just to remind you how magical it is.

After the first snowman and some hot chocolate, maybe after a day or two, the snow becomes annoying. It means putting on extra layers. Stomping in heavy boots. Slippery roads.

Then it becomes work. Shoveling, plowing. The effort to dig out your car or even walk more than a few houses down the street.

It’s the story of our work too.

You got into your field because it was magical. Endlessly exciting and inviting. Something twinkling and new called you and you answered. And then it got hard, and then it just became work.

But maybe the snow in your work is still there.
I’m sure if you stepped back and looked, the twinkling, pristine magic is in there.
Waiting for you to play in it.

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