By Peter Jeff
The Leadership Mints Guy

Here’s and idea to help you reinforce your conviction. Reading time: 3:03

It’s been another gruelling and challenging day. You’re exhausted. As you’re heading back to the airport, you see an “Off-Duty” light beaming atop a taxi cab. You fantasize: “Oh if only I could install one of those off-duty lights in my office.” Absurd? Of course. Leaders are always on duty, 24/7.

As PROFESSionals, leaders consistently profess their personal conviction that they are doing what they were meant to do, 24/7. They don’t have to wait for Pay Day. Every day is Pay Day.

And every day, PROFESSionals unleash the music inside them on the job as poet Kahlil Gibran notes in his book The Prophet:

“When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music.”

No wonder Archimedes made music in the bathtub, proving a famous mathematical concept. O.Henry made music while in a bar in New York City, writing Gift the Magi. Adam Smith made music at the British Coffee House in London, writing The Wealth of Nations. Thomas Edison made music in the baggage car on a railroad train, conducting experiments And in 1908, Jack Norworth made music on a train, writing Take Me Out to the Ball Game— still the most popular song sung at baseball parks.

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