Month: March 2017

Produced Results

Passion Best At Results

Where do you consistently show produced results?

What sort of activities have you been able to prove your skills and abilities with concrete results?

What is driving your practical success forward?

Where do you have readily accessible opportunities to produce, succeed?

These areas show us our practical circumstances and possibilities.

It’s fun to live in the clouds of passion and dreams but this circle of “Produced Results” helps us come down to earth and see reality.

Even though it may not be as lofty as considering passion, it is a valuable area to focus and become more aware.

Looking to call out those activities, opportunities, experiences in which there are tangible results possible helps us see what value we could add.

This circle helps us see robust, lasting, holistic possibilities.

With this awareness, we should narrow our focus and pin point opportunities and arenas to maximize. Focus on those areas which we have practical opportunity and which are currently driving us forward or producing sustaining results.

Passion

Who are you? What makes you feel alive?

We should be on a search for that which drives us. Our passion.

We likely won’t have many, if any, moments where we can pin it down precisely but we should always be seeking after it.

It doesn’t have to be lifelong or indefinite. Passion changes with the seasons.

But knowing that which innately drives us and sustains us is important to spend time investigating.

When was the last time you thought about what makes you feel alive?

Passion Best At Results

More to come on “The Best At” and “Produced Results”. Where there is overlap, there is more potential for long term impact.

The Dip

Reflection on The Dip by Seth Godin:

As we work towards progress, we are destined to have failures.

If not full failures, then at least moments of grind. Spinning our wheels. The struggle.

The dip. This is the dip:

the dip

(From Seth Godin’s The Dip–I have a copy if you’d like to borrow it)

It is inevitable. We have success at first then over time, we realize the complexity, step into uncharted areas, work towards mastery.

The dip creates scarcity and is the long slog between starting and mastery.

We should expect the dip, plan for it, and when we see it, lean into it. Embrace it. Consider it an OPPORTUNITY!

And above all, we should not quit when we are in the dip. Unless we realize it actually isn’t a dip or we have other dips to focus on.

Goals are great. They give us direction. But really goals can be cheap.

They gain value when we go through the dip with our goals. When we are invited into “galvanizing and insulating and perfecting”.

The dip is calling you. It’s asking you if you’ll engage with it. Use it as an opportunity. Let is refine and hone.

Will you lean into it?

Goals

Progress feels good. It re-affirms our ability, identity, role.

We should be sure we are measuring the right thing when looking for that progress or lack thereof.

In order to measure correctly, we must know where we are going. What the target is.

Goals are the heart of progress. Without a goal in mind, how do we know if there is progress?

Sure we can make a bunch of corporate or business goals with measurable outcomes, measurements taken each quarter… At certain times, these are helpful.

More importantly we should each have plans, goals, projected trajectories for ourselves as humans. If we can call out what we are shooting for and keep ourselves accountable for that, the group will benefit. We will benefit.

Where are you lacking motivation? Maybe that is an area for a new goal.

Where do you keep feeling let down? Maybe that is an area for a better goal.

Where do you feel accomplished/energized? Maybe that is an area with a goal that is working.

There are times it is great to just go for a drive without a place to go. That can get frustrating if it is all we do. Often we need a destination.

Where can you call out your destination?