Everyone gets a job description.  Here are your goals, your tasks, your day to day activities.  We all know that nobody’s job description is ever all inclusive…

“Of course I will fix the copier. I have no idea what I am doing, but I will go for it!”

“Host flip cup…of course I will host flip cup!”

But just as a job description can’t tell you everything you will do, it also can’t tell you what not to care about – what to leave out.  Have you ever asked yourself that?  What can’t I care about?

Especially at work?

What can I not care about today?  Tomorrow? Over all?  As my role here at Sixthman has changed/evolved I have had to ask myself that question more and more.  What can I stop caring about?  I guess I should use the word concern more than care.  What can I not concern myself with today?  Nope.  Both sound wrong.  How do you draw the line?

“Leave the gun. Take the canolies.”

In a job that is focused on exactly that, caring, that is what I struggle with.  How can I not care?  I know that it sounds like a weird place to be, a strange question to ask oneself, but in reality how much can we really care about before it all gets diluted.

I was always told when you spread yourself thin then there is nothing extra to give…especially when you need it.  So I have made up my own job description of what I have to allow myself not to care about…believe it or not, it helps.  Here is a short excerpt:

1. I will no longer care how much coffee I drink…cause I need you sweet, sweet caffeine.

2. I will no longer care about the state of my desk.  My OCD will take a back seat to insanely busy for awhile.

3. I will no longer care if you put a new roll of toilet paper on or just leave it sitting next to the old roll.  I will mock you and call you lazy behind your back. You know who you are…

4. I will no longer care that I can’t control it all – even in my world

5. I will no longer care that my blogs get less and less funny with the more I write.

6. I will no longer care that this is my first cruise season,  I can do it.

So write your “can’t care about list”..you’d be amazed at how much you free yourself up to caring more about the things that do really matter.

-Kel