Tom Peters once asked a marketer: are you proud to tell your family what you did today? The host uses that question as a compass for work and life, a way to check if you're chasing the right things.
A few years ago on this very show, when I was the host, I got to interview Tom Peters. And Tom Peters, the great author, author of the best-selling business book in history, just, just, you know, one of the great business celebrities. He was retiring and it was the end of the show and I was interviewing him and I said, okay, Tom, you know, you're going away. You have a chance to send a last message, a final message to thousands of marketers all around the world. What would you want to say? And he thought for a moment and he said, when you go home at night, are you proud to tell your family of what you did that day? Hmm. Yep. And it, it really made my heart skip a beat. And I think that's a good way to kind of end this discussion because in this world we're gonna be pulled in a lot of directions. And I think that is a good code to live by is to think, am I, am I happy? Am I proud of what I'm doing today? Am I proud to tell my friends and family what I do? I think if you follow that code, you're gonna be okay.
