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Going somewhere on purpose

By In You

Each of us is on their journey from where we are to somewhere.

For some the journey is a rolling stone’s, with no direction home. For others it’s the journey of arriving somewhere on purpose.

What to believe is a question of character and personal preferences, to each their own. That explains why some word-users don’t believe the two types of journey exist, free for the taking. There are always those that believe and those that don’t. It’s a question of age.

There is a decision no one else can make for you, the decision to journey on the highway or the road less traveled. It’s this decision more than any other that separates the many from the few.

On purpose

To end up somewhere on purpose you must have a clear vision of that somewhere you hope to arrive on purpose. This is similar to living in your dream house. You wouldn’t start building your dream house without committing your plan for your dream house to paper first. Or else it would be built on your mood swings rather than your vision.

Vision

If you don’t currently have a vision of where you want to arrive on purpose, ask yourself these questions …

  • What breaks your heart?
  • What keeps you up at night?
  • What must be now that isn’t yet?
  • Why do you exist?
  • What’s your purpose?

The answers are the breadcrumbs that lead to your vision, a step at a time. Even with seven league boots on your feet, don’t expect it to happen overnight. To get hold of your vision takes patience and time.

  • “I am not what happened to me, I am what I decide to become.” – Carl Jung
  • “Where is fancy bred, in the heart or in the head?” – Shakespeare
  • “Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside awakens.” – Carl Jung
  • “I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.” – Michelangelo

You must look into your heart and like Michelangelo be ready to carve your vision free.

You don’t yet know how long it’ll take, but only when you have the courage to follow through are you ready for your vision, and your vision for you.
Your vision will always be in contrast to the status quo.
Whether you’re a parent, CEO, or solopreneur, you get there not now but in time.

But when your vision is clear, many decisions are already made.

All about vision

To know all about vision, you’re able to preorder my book, THE MIRACLE OF VISION, when it’s available on Amazon in attractive, affordable paperback and ebook formats in 2 weeks, complete with a temporary huge preorder 30% discount. Now is a great time to take advantage and mark your calendar.

Going somewhere on purpose

Going somewhere on purpose

Each of us is on their journey from where we are to somewhere.

For some the journey is a rolling stone’s, with no direction home. For others it’s the journey of arriving somewhere on purpose.

What to believe is a question of character and personal preferences, to each their own. That explains why some word-users don’t believe the two types of journey exist, free for the taking. There are always those that believe and those that don’t. It’s a question of age.

There is a decision no one else can make for you, the decision to journey on the highway or the road less traveled. It’s this decision more than any other that separates the many from the few.

On purpose

To end up somewhere on purpose you must have a clear vision of that somewhere you hope to arrive on purpose. This is similar to living in your dream house. You wouldn’t start building your dream house without committing your plan for your dream house to paper first. Or else it would be built on your mood swings rather than your vision.

Vision

If you don’t currently have a vision of where you want to arrive on purpose, ask yourself these questions …

  • What breaks your heart?
  • What keeps you up at night?
  • What must be now that isn’t yet?
  • Why do you exist?
  • What’s your purpose?

The answers are the breadcrumbs that lead to your vision, a step at a time. Even with seven league boots on your feet, don’t expect it to happen overnight. To get hold of your vision takes patience and time.

  • “I am not what happened to me, I am what I decide to become.” – Carl Jung
  • “Where is fancy bred, in the heart or in the head?” – Shakespeare
  • “Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside awakens.” – Carl Jung
  • “I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.” – Michelangelo

You must look into your heart and like Michelangelo be ready to carve your vision free.

You don’t yet know how long it’ll take, but only when you have the courage to follow through are you ready for your vision, and your vision for you.
Your vision will always be in contrast to the status quo.
Whether you’re a parent, CEO, or solopreneur, you get there not now but in time.

But when your vision is clear, many decisions are already made.

All about vision

To know all about vision, you’re able to preorder my book, THE MIRACLE OF VISION, when it’s available on Amazon in attractive, affordable paperback and ebook formats in 2 weeks, complete with a temporary huge preorder 30% discount. Now is a great time to take advantage and mark your calendar.

When you’re losing your hair, many years from now, when you’re eighty-four, what will make you proud?

By In You

You can expect the easy life, and end up with precious little of either, or you can embark on a journey of service and adventure. When you’ve arrived at the end of your journey, which of the two are you gonna be more proud of?

ROOTS

Service and adventure consist of finding places where it’s not working and then fix the root cause so that it won’t happen again, as opposed to fix the symptom only.

According to Peter Drucker “There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all”. Avoiding the useless is a first step, but you can do better by finding places where something’s going wrong and asking how and why, then fix the root cause for it to never happen again.
When you make it a habit of not just fixing the symptom but of fixing the root cause instead, that, my friend, is the secret to your operational and financial success.
If you can get your work to where you enjoy half of it, that’s outstanding because only a few word-users ever achieve it.

OVERHEAD

Everything comes with overhead — with pieces that you don’t like. You could be a supreme court justice university professor and still dislike parts of your work. Every job coming with pieces you don’t like is just part of it, nothing you can do about it. Don’t even think resent or minimize those pieces of your work.

There’s this false perception that senior executives are under the most stress, but the opposite is true. The senior executives are under the least stress because when you’re the chief you decide, you execute. Why don’t you delegate stress? It’s your decision. Any chief’s job is to figure out their journey so they can minimize the things they dislike and delegate them to other people. Near as I can tell, everybody is the CEO of their journey.

CONTROL

Word-users don’t dislike hard work, what word-users dislike is being out of control. Like when we can’t control our environment. When this happens, word-users get overscheduled.

I don’t enjoy being overscheduled. I want some time to be able to think, free myself, ride my bike, jog in my favorite forest, laugh with my family and friends.

Energy we do manage, but time is given to us. Nothing has more time than anything else, and when you become successful, one of the things you start is getting overscheduled — this event to agree to and attend, and maybe last night you wanted to be with your family instead. Circum dances and things happen. It’s up to you to ensure it’s not a waste of time. I like freedom of movement rather than having every minute of every day scheduled.

GIFT

A young word-user should find something they’re passionate about doing. You’re never gonna be great at anything if you don’t love your work.

When I was young, I made this mistake too — got fixed on my gifts. Everybody has gifts. Maybe you’re extremely beautiful, good at mathematics, or other things you’re extremely good at too. Because these are gifts, they can confuse you. Because they’re not the things that determine your journey.

YOU DON’T MAKE GIFTS, YOU MAKE DECISIONS

It’s your decisions that determine your journey, not your gifts. You can be proud of your gifts, happy, and celebrate them. But they were given to you, you didn’t earn them. You can only be proud of the things you earn.

As I get older, I realise I’m not proud of my gifts. School was easy. I got A’s, was good at math, and the rest of it, and I thought that’s who I was. But it’s not true. Those are the things that are gifts. What was hard for me was deciding to use my gifts in certain ways, to challenge myself to doing things that I didn’t think I could do, to put myself in uncomfortable situations.

I would say to a young person that you can decide a life of ease and comfort, or you can decide a life of service and adventure. Which of the two will you be (more) proud of when you’re losing your hair, many years from now, when you’re eighty-four?

>>> What’s your view on this? <<<
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When you’re losing your hair, many years from now, when you’re eighty-four, what will make you proud?

When you’re losing your hair, many years from now, when you’re eighty-four, what will make you proud?

You can expect the easy life, and end up with precious little of either, or you can embark on a journey of service and adventure. When you’ve arrived at the end of your journey, which of the two are you gonna be more proud of?

ROOTS

Service and adventure consist of finding places where it’s not working and then fix the root cause so that it won’t happen again, as opposed to fix the symptom only.

According to Peter Drucker “There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all”. Avoiding the useless is a first step, but you can do better by finding places where something’s going wrong and asking how and why, then fix the root cause for it to never happen again.
When you make it a habit of not just fixing the symptom but of fixing the root cause instead, that, my friend, is the secret to your operational and financial success.
If you can get your work to where you enjoy half of it, that’s outstanding because only a few word-users ever achieve it.

OVERHEAD

Everything comes with overhead — with pieces that you don’t like. You could be a supreme court justice university professor and still dislike parts of your work. Every job coming with pieces you don’t like is just part of it, nothing you can do about it. Don’t even think resent or minimize those pieces of your work.

There’s this false perception that senior executives are under the most stress, but the opposite is true. The senior executives are under the least stress because when you’re the chief you decide, you execute. Why don’t you delegate stress? It’s your decision. Any chief’s job is to figure out their journey so they can minimize the things they dislike and delegate them to other people. Near as I can tell, everybody is the CEO of their journey.

CONTROL

Word-users don’t dislike hard work, what word-users dislike is being out of control. Like when we can’t control our environment. When this happens, word-users get overscheduled.

I don’t enjoy being overscheduled. I want some time to be able to think, free myself, ride my bike, jog in my favorite forest, laugh with my family and friends.

Energy we do manage, but time is given to us. Nothing has more time than anything else, and when you become successful, one of the things you start is getting overscheduled — this event to agree to and attend, and maybe last night you wanted to be with your family instead. Circum dances and things happen. It’s up to you to ensure it’s not a waste of time. I like freedom of movement rather than having every minute of every day scheduled.

GIFT

A young word-user should find something they’re passionate about doing. You’re never gonna be great at anything if you don’t love your work.

When I was young, I made this mistake too — got fixed on my gifts. Everybody has gifts. Maybe you’re extremely beautiful, good at mathematics, or other things you’re extremely good at too. Because these are gifts, they can confuse you. Because they’re not the things that determine your journey.

YOU DON’T MAKE GIFTS, YOU MAKE DECISIONS

It’s your decisions that determine your journey, not your gifts. You can be proud of your gifts, happy, and celebrate them. But they were given to you, you didn’t earn them. You can only be proud of the things you earn.

As I get older, I realise I’m not proud of my gifts. School was easy. I got A’s, was good at math, and the rest of it, and I thought that’s who I was. But it’s not true. Those are the things that are gifts. What was hard for me was deciding to use my gifts in certain ways, to challenge myself to doing things that I didn’t think I could do, to put myself in uncomfortable situations.

I would say to a young person that you can decide a life of ease and comfort, or you can decide a life of service and adventure. Which of the two will you be (more) proud of when you’re losing your hair, many years from now, when you’re eighty-four?

>>> What’s your view on this? <<<
>>> Reshare if you agree <<<

#LifeDecisions #innovation #selfimprovement #word