We had a dinner at our house tonight with a couple we've not really "met" before. She's the teacher at my daughters music class and she brought along her family. Her husband and her have 3 awesome children and they all pretty much entertained themselves, along with my daughter in the "play room" all night. -Bonus for a "new friend" if they have kids that can entertain ours.

Inevitably, the question of "what do you do" came up. I have no problem with this question as I'm someone that does a lot, in truth most people are. But what most people answer with is "I'm a tax accountant" or some such nonsense. When in reality, they're a tax accountant to pay the bills, but also are a master chess player or a champion sports fisherman or an oboe player, who knows. Anyways, tonight I answered, "I'm a business development manager for "X," but really I'm a musician and the co-founder of the most interesting digital place you've never visited." -That got his attention. Immediately, he went from being a manager at a solar company to being a former manager of digital musical content for BMI. Talked about the start-ups he's had etc. But if we stayed in our comfortable, "I'm a "X" conversation, we'd have never learned these things about one another.

Almost everyone could answer that question in a really interesting way, instead of in a way that answers how they get paid. What you "do" and how you "get paid" aren't necessarily the same thing.

But aspiration is nothing without movement.