Infuse purpose into your life by giving yourself something meaningful to do. Don’t worry if it’s not dramatic.
“Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.” Helen Keller
What would it be like to live as if you had one week to live? One thing is clear. You would become intolerant of nonsense.
You would be intolerant of mundacity if you had a one-week mindset. Pointless conversations, useless activities, and trivial tensions would feel unbearable.
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No one wakes hoping for a meaningless life. But triviality is seductive.
You don’t have to wear a scowl. You do need courage to confront triviality.
Triviality says, “Stay busy.”
Busyness hides aimlessness. Motion fakes direction.
Hustle isn’t all bad. But it’s not a destination.
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Survival is success during crisis. It fails in the long-term.
Define meaningful action to thrive. Typically, we define purpose, choose goals, and set priorities. But there’s a better order. Priorities before goals.
Define purpose
Set priorities
Choose goals
You can do good things without priorities, but you can’t engage in meaningful action.
Details overwhelm you when you lose sight of the big picture. Perspective enables you to reject urgent trivialities.
You’re lost in the weeds when you rush from one issue to the next. Chaos and fatigue prevail when busyness obscures the big picture.
Energize your leadership by rising above individual situations.
Thoreau wrote, “The cost of a thing is the amount … of life which is required to be exchanged for it.
When you give yourself “for” something you work for gratification.
When you give yourself “to” something you lead with purpose.
Two things leaders give themselves to….
