Everybody is telling you to fulfill your desires.

Nobody warns you of the danger when your desires do not match your duty and what must get done.

• You want to wait tables, but you are a busboy.

• You want to write about leadership, but you have never led anybody.

• You desire to lounge, but your wife needs help with the kids.

• You desire to be in sales, but your duty is in ops.

Imagine life if we compromised on what must get done?

The key is to focus on accomplishing what must get done over what I want to do.

When Life gets busy and full, it's natural to withdraw to what's easy and desirable. Doing what we want makes us feel that we are being productive. When in reality, that's the opposite of productivity.

Actual productivity is not just being effective with your time, but accomplishing what matters most more effectively.

What's at stake if you don't fulfill your duty?

• You could lose your job.

• You could lose your spouse

• You could lose your children

• You could lose your home

We all have duties we need to fulfill to be faithful stewards of what has been entrusted to us.

How to fulfill what must get done:

• You reap what you sow, and faithfulness reaps seeds of satisfaction and success.

• Maintain your integrity: you have a contract with your boss to do a certain kind of work, so do it well or renegotiate what you do.

• Seek to serve others because then you'll see that doing what must get done is a way of loving others and love.

Fulfill your duty and finish what must get done.

Then the desires will follow.