Once you’ve seen it, you can’t forget.
I’m talking about your Path – the way of living, being, working, breathing, and creating that bring you into your True Life.
When you’re on your Path, you can feel it.
It’s grounding and energizing. Serene and sparky. Each step you take on your Path more and more fundamentally re-connects, as Parker Palmer puts it, soul and role. These two need each other.
Your soul needs your role.
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Sometimes the work can become so intense – it feels like your life depends on it. Not just your rent, mortgage, meals, tuition, clothing, utilities etc. But, your life.
Then, fear and hope cloud your eyes.
You can’t see what you’re doing, where you’re going, or what matters most. The signs and signals around you are all muffled, muted, and distorted, when you’re lost in fear and hope.
The tendency is to dig in and try harder.
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Often, when people think about exercising leadership, they imagine themselves in the spot light. Being bold, out front, and the object of attention.
That’s one approach.There’s another way.
It’s called Servant Leadership.
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My manifesto called Lizards & Leaders: How Meditation Accelerates Change is available at ChangeThis.com.
A lot of people are at a point in their lives when they face big questions: About their work. About themselves. About their legacy. About next steps. T
They stand on the threshold – where big challenges and big questions meet. The threshold is a place of both great risk and new possibilities. What about you?
This manifesto is for people who have tried to cross that threshold – to move boldly into a new way of being in the world – only to find themselves hesitating at the brink. It’s for folks who’ve realized that it takes more than “pep talks” more than “just do it” slogans to transform their lives.
What does it take? Click here
Tell your friends, colleagues, team members . . . tweet it, facebook it.
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If you and the people that you work with only focus on the tasks that need to be performed, your work will become mechanical and soulless.
People need to see how what they do – in the most commonplace activities – contributes to something that matters.
Watch this video to learn how:
Okay, now that you’ve watched the video – answer these questions. Or better yet, watch the video as a team and discuss these questions.
1) List your “glasses of water”?
What are the tasks that fill your days?
What do you do – in very concrete and practical terms?
What activities constitute – doing your job. These tasks are your glasses of water.
2) Reflect on what makes these tasks meaningful?
Ask:
Why does what I/we do matter?
Why does it matter to me/us?
To the team?
To the organization?
To the customer/clients?
To society at large?
3) Add purpose into planning the tasks of the day.
Ask yourself:
What can I do today to ensure that my work reflects my higher purpose?
Ask your team:
What can we do today to ensure that our work reflects our higher purpose?
Take time to embed this way of thinking and you will transform the ordinary “glasses of water” that make up the day – into acts of purpose and meaning.
Otherwise, work will be as empty as . . . an empty glass of water.
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My long-time friend Elizabeth Lesser recently gave a powerful talk at TED.
In it she introduces a word that we need to understand – otherizing. It’s a great word that converts the noun other into the verb otherizing.
Otherizing is something you do.
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