The future is invented by what you do today, not by what you plan to do tomorrow.
Three questions that invent the future:
#1. What do you need to stop?
If your life is full and you’re not flourishing, you’re filling life with things that don’t matter to you.
A busy life is not necessarily a full life.
Frantic busyness might be fear and boredom in disguise. Perhaps the busiest people among us are escaping life, not inventing the future.
Four tips…
- Clarify what matters to you. Imagine a year has passed. Your hands are raised in victory. People around you are cheering.
- Who is cheering?
- What are they saying to you?
- Stop doing things that matter less so you can focus on things that matter more.
- Get someone else to do things that matter less to you. Someone enjoys doing things that drain you.
- Improve your skills so it takes less time to do what you’re currently doing.
#2. What opportunity might you seize?
Move away from, “What’s wrong and how can I fix it?”
The temptation to focus on what’s wrong leads to darkness. Yes, some problems need attention, but they aren’t worthy of relentless focus.
Seizing opportunity transforms life.
Problem-fixers are back-ward facing. Fixing problems focuses on something that began in the past.
Fixing problems is safer than seizing opportunities.
Opportunity-seizing is forward-facing.
#3. What’s important to you about current opportunity?
Connect action with purpose to fuel energy and build stamina.
“Start with Why.” Simon Sinek
How might leaders invent the future?
