Companies have a mission statement to guide what they do. It explains why they exist and where they’re headed. It’s what a company filters all their actions through. But a lot of us don’t have that kind of intentionality when it comes to our personal lives. When you create a mission statement for your own life, you add clarity & purpose to what you do.
The Clinton Global Initiative strives to bring people together to tackle the world’s greatest problems. Are we living our lives to just do the bare minimum, or truly striving to leave a significant mark on this world for the better?
Various life lessons I learned from 2011. Hopefully you can glean off of some of my failures and successes.
We want to say yes to good things. But sometimes in life, we have to make the hard choice of saying no to good things in order to say yes to better things.
Back in Kenya again starting Intrinsic, I’m starting to ease into that sweet spot where my passions match my skills and serve a greater purpose.
A group of about 10 people crammed around a small table in a little taco shack on the corner of …
A few days ago I was suckered into one of those money-making seminars. I had been emailing with this lady who said she had a few positions open for some projects she was working on (I had replied to a computer/marketing job post). So she invited me to a meeting/interview, which sounded like a regular business meeting for a company. When I arrived, it was a room full of 30 people ready to hear a guy talk for an hour about making money. I sat through it out of politeness.
Everyone wants to save the world one day…but no one wants to do good everyday. At least that’s the case with me. It’s been a running theme in my life recently. I realized that I’ve always had these dreams of doing something great with my life, to make some kind of significant impact on the world. And that’s good to have – we should all aspire to greatness. But the problem was that I was waiting for that to happen.
Over this past week before school started, I took my spare time walking around Wellington to get a feel for the city, as you can see in the videos posted. It’s also given me the freedom to reflect a lot. So beware, this will be a long one.
