The Professor of On-Purpose
Watch today's webcast of The On-Purpose Leader Experience, please use this Link to watch. There is no charge. If you want to participate in the next five weeks, you can register from the replay page.
Be On-Purpose!
Kevin
PS – approximately 55 minutes long with a 15 minute Q&A.
On-Purpose Profile: Chelsea Eubanks
Faithful Fish is an on-purpose business founded by Chelsea Eubanks from
the loss of many loved ones within a brief time. Rather than let it
send her world into a crisis of confidence and despair, Chelsea decided
she could prosper by being true to her interests while caring for others. CLICK HERE to read her story and to shop her clothing line of classic polos, shirts, hats, and outerwear.
Often the most meaningful businesses are birthed from solving a
problem that touches us personally. If you've ever met an insurance
agent whose father died early and the insurance policy left behind cared
for his mother and college education, then you've likely met a
successful and committed insurance agent. Scars may mark us, but we
determine if they are distinguish or disfigure us.
What lesson can you learn from Chelsea?
Allow me the pleasure of plugging Faithful Fish in this On-Purpose Business Minute:
“What am I going to do when I grow up?”
It is funny
when we say it, yet the price of not really knowing who we are as
grown-ups is needlessly expensive to every aspect of our lives.
I
get it! You’re stretched to the max and burdened under more
commitments than you have time. Life is wrapped so tight, that you’re
not sure where to begin with making your life make sense.
Now, you
can test drive The On-Purpose Leader Experience
which is based on
The On-Purpose Person. Listen and watch the replay of the
introductory webcast by CLICKING HERE. You will be taken to
the replay page. Be
sure to click on “SLIDES” in the upper left hand
corner so you can watch and listen.
The program includes
five
remaining webcasts, replays, and web site support.
Experience what it
means to be on-purpose and to be in a community of on-purpose persons in
creation for the six plus weeks while the Experience is happening. The next Experience begins on September 8, 2010. Preregistration is now open. You can also register here.
Be On-Purpose!
Kevin
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Every guy has to chuckle at this Geico ad featuring Abraham Lincoln in a real dilemma with his wife.
Image by brainpop_uk via Flickr
About once a week a would-be writer approaches me to ask for my pearls of wisdom for how to write a book. The answer is simple: start, finish, edit, rewrite, edit, share, rewrite, and stop short of being totally satisfied. (Tip: You will never be completely satisfied.)
The first step, "Start!" is the most difficult. After that the Finish step is the most difficult, followed by the edit step… you get the picture. Writing is work folks.
I stumbled upon 50 Strategies For Making Yourself Work, an article by Jerry Oltion. It offers great advice for getting the writing process started. These 50 strategies are accurate and spiced with humor.
So read (oh, yes, and apply) Jerry Oltion's advice. Surely, there is at least one of these strategies to get your book started sooner rather than later. So now you know how to write a book – easy wasn't it?
How to sell a book? First, the writing is the easy part. Need I say more?
Time management is one of the great challenges. This video at FastCompany.com by Gina Trapani, the author of Upgrade
Your Life and founding editor of Lifehacker.com was worthwhile viewing. In short, do you know what is important to your life and work?
Here are some related past On-Purpose Minutes you may want to review:
What's the Deal with Time Management?
Be On-Purpose!
Kevin
This interview with Marcia Reynolds about her new book Wander Woman, hit me with a mix of appreciation and sadness. Please watch the interview, read the rest of my comments, and then add your thoughts to the conversation. What's your take on the interview?
Marcia's observation of high performing women and her discussion of their challenges, frustrations, and ambitions parallel some my experiences with female executives. My deep appreciation for her comments is the manner in which she has truly drilled deep to get to the subtle nuances of the Wandering Woman condition. She paints an accurate picture as best I can tell for this stage of personal leadership development.
In particular, Marcia's concept of Wander Women wanting a knight instead of a king for a marriage partner intrigued me. I have to wonder, women who are reading this, do you agree?
My sadness with the interview (the book may provide further insights) was that Marcia is scratching the surface on vital women's issues such as identity, life balance, relationships, purpose, meaning, work, community, leadership, etc… yet there's an absence of inherent hope and joy in Marcia's underlying demeanor. Again, just one man's intuition here that something is missing. Is it the absence of a strong spiritual component that I sense? Is it a woman wandering in an unsettled way and striving to make rational peace with it rather than getting the matter resolved in her heart?
The Old Testament story of Moses and the Jews wandering in the desert for 40 years comes to mind as I begin to grasp this concept. Let's hope that Marcia Reynolds will one day be able to write a sequel, The Promised Land Lady.
Wander women, I must ask you, is being a wandering woman what you want? Is this concept simply an unresolved justification for stopping short of really knowing who you are, why you are here, where you are going, and what's important along the way? Can high performing women be settled souls instead of wandering women?
Be On-Purpose!
Kevin
Here is a related On-Purpose Minute that you might find helpful: How Do You Manage Disappointment?
I've been a fan of Daniel Pink's since I first read A Whole New Mind. I've been reading through his latest book, Drive when this YouTube video came across my computer screen.
In the late 1980s when I pioneered the On-Purpose approach I felt the truth of what was wrong with the current thinking in personal and corporate leadership. At the time, I knew the concepts were ahead of their time. In The On-Purpose Business I predict the Age of Purpose and Meaning following the Knowledge Age.
Patiently, I've waited, watched, and worked. So here I am 20 plus years later. Along the way Jim Collins' books, Built to Last and Good to Great, validated the principles of On-Purpose with extensive research far beyond my resources and experience.
Now comes Daniel Pink to share the importance of purpose in organizations. I love it! Society is catching up but still not quite there. As important as purpose is, it isn't as important as being On-Purpose. On-Purpose is the moment-to-moment alignments of living out the defined purpose.
With this caveat, I just love this video featuring Daniel Pink. The more we get the word out about purpose and being on-purpose, the sooner the world gets to a healthier and more whole place.
Please share your comments on this video or any other thoughts.
