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3 Steps For Plotting Your Personal Future In An Uncertain World

21 Tuesday May 2013

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this article originally appeared in FastCoExist

In today’s accelerating world of work, it’s easy to get distracted by the million shiny objects vying for our attention. All too often, we spend our time responding to the latest urgent priority, and forget who we are and what really matters to us. A sense of personal or professional mission fades, and our passion and potential goes dormant.

However, forward-focused people and organizations realize that a happy, productive workplace exists only when everyone is aware of their gifts and how to best align their contribution with a larger shared purpose.

 A happy, productive workplace exists only when everyone is aware of their gifts and how to best align their contribution with a larger shared purpose.

Below is a three-phase process to help get reconnected to your motivations, the unique value you offer the world, and a vision for your own long-term trajectory. Cultivating this foresight practice at both the personal and organizational levels can be a powerful way to develop our greatest assets: ourselves.


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I Am My Own Worst Enemy

29 Saturday Dec 2012

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I had tea with a lovely new friend a few weeks ago. We talked about what it takes to live a full life, what holds us back, and how to get out of our own way so we can become the person we want to be.

He told me he realized years ago that he was his own worst enemy, his own worst critic, and his own biggest obstacle to achieving his dreams. He told me a story about how he has intentionally assembled a ‘delta force’ around himself….. colleagues, mentors, lovers and friends with whom he has explicitly developed support relationships to help him be the best version of himself. He called them his personal Board of Directors.

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3 Patterns of Behavior Blocking Your Path to Mastery

23 Tuesday Oct 2012

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Embarking upon the master’s path is a decision to go on a journey.

It can’t be embraced with society’s quick-fix mentality, expecting instant gratification and immediate results, but rather through a commitment to a lifelong process of learning, development and change.

In Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment, George Leonard identifies three patterns of behavior that tend to knock us off the path, represented in the personas of the Dabbler, the Obsessive, and the Hacker.

Can you identify with any of these characters?

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