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June 1 - June 15, 2020
Evolution of a New Meaning Schema.
Jack Mezirow,
Human beings are not smartphones. We own smartphones. We don’t need heads filled with useless facts when we all have access to Google. What we need is a head filled with the right wisdom, beliefs, practices, and knowledge to help us deal with the messy, confusing, beautiful aspects of being human itself.
TACTIC #1: REDEFINE LEADERSHIP TO BE ABOUT GROWTH
But change happens by simply being part of a health-conscious ecosystem. It’s contagious.
TACTIC # 3: MAKE TRANSFORMATION THE NUMBER ONE FOCUS
SLEEP OPTIMIZATION
When work lines up with the legacy a person wants to create in the world, their mission fuels them. This is what it means to work from a place of self-transcendence.
Contribution is the modus operandi of self-transcendence.
Remember this when you wake up every day: Your life is not about you. Rather, it’s about the lives of every single person you touch. Neale went on: “Make an effort to remind yourself of this. When you really get this, when you truly shift and make your life about others, you will never wake up depressed, stressed, or fearful ever again. When you walk into a room with the intention to heal the room, when you wake up with the desire to serve the world, your problems, the negative you feel, disappears.”
We are part of one unified entity and body—the Human Colossus.
Human beings, when operating as cancer cells, choose not to see themselves as cancer
This starts with asking this question before you take any action: Is the role I’m playing in this world pushing humanity forward or moving us back?
Know the difference between a businessperson and a real entrepreneur? Businesspeople do it for the dollars. But real entrepreneurs do it to push the human race forward.
You don’t have to save the world. Just don’t mess it up for the next generation.
TOOL #1: THE MASSIVE TRANSFORMATIONAL PURPOSE (MTP)
“Your life is not about you. Rather, it’s about the lives of every single person you touch.”
The Problem with Most People Is that Their Problems Aren’t Big Enough.
TOOL #2: TAKING A STAND
“Too many leaders try to be inspiring. Stop that. Instead be inspired.”
‘Your stand is your brand.’
My foundational values came first—the businesses I start simply reflect those values.
The key to making any mission happen is to find and align with people smarter than you, give them inspiring projects, and then get out of their way so you can focus on the vision.
In other words, is your mission adding value to the world or detracting from it?
What are you an activist for? What matters to you?
Step 1: Reflect on these two quotes and the questions below:
What missions in the world already inspire you? What causes can you be an activist for? What topics or fields light you up? What types of groups do you want to make a difference for?
What brands can you support?
Step 2: Take action. What actions can you take to align yourself with or create positive missions that forward initiatives in the areas that matter to...
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Beautiful Destruction.
Sometimes you have to destroy a part of your life that is merely good, to allow what is truly great to enter.
The question is not: Are you worthy to reach your goals? The question is: Are your goals worthy enough
Envisioning is the act of conceiving an idea.
Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: That the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way. I
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The Bigger Your Vision, the Easier It Gets Always Speak of Your Project Ten Years Ahead Give Yourself Permission to Fail Be Audacious, But Not
Cult leaders say loyalty lies with me, But entrepreneurs say loyalty lies with the cause.
His book Moonshots
Don’t describe what you do today. Describe what you’re going to do in ten years. Be humble and admit that there’s a chance of failure. But talk boldly of what you aim
Committed objectives are tied to Google’s metrics: product releases, bookings, hiring, customers. Management sets them at the company level, employees at the departmental level. In general, these committed objectives—such as sales and revenue goals—are to be achieved in full (100 percent) within a set time frame. Aspirational
objectives reflect bigger-picture, higher-risk, more future-tilting ideas. They originate from any tier and aim to mobilize the entire organization. By definition, they are challenging to achieve. Failures—at an average rate of 40 percent—are part of Google’s territory.
TACTIC #3: GIVE PERMISSION TO FAIL
“Always work on something uncomfortably exciting,”
percent of your goals should have a 50 percent rate of failure.
A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
Zero to One.
(it’s important to set no more than three to five OKRs per timeframe).
EXERCISE 1: BRING ANY VISION TO REALITY
Step 1:
What do you need to do first to move toward what you want?
Roles are made up anyway. Humans are information processors; we are “meaning-making machines.”
