Hope and Inspiration Discussion

This week, I shared a post written by Loretta Whitesides at the WIRED blog: http://tinyurl.com/NASAhope

If you haven't read it, I highly encourage you to do so. She takes the structure of Barack Obama's acceptance speech but applies it to NASA. I read this entry to the OpenGoddard group at the beginning of our discussion.

What I got out of the discussion is that it can be really tough for folks to be inspired and excited on a day to day basis. Folks want to feel like they're making a difference, and many are in positions where they don't feel like they get to do that particularly often! Folks aren't connected to any sort of big vision for our organization that would inspire them and help them see how their job is contributing to the world!

For those who weren't there, I asked folks to think about what percentage of time they are really excited about what they're doing at work, and what they're doing at these times. Then, take a look at what it would take to increase this percentage, and take some action to increase it! Kind of a fun game to play! We'll try to revisit it in a couple of weeks - or post comments here to share your experience!