Week 3

What an amazing video, I watched the video and typed what I thought were the most important parts, I think I typed almost the whole thing, these are very powerful messages and they have caused me much pondering on who I am and what I would like to accomplish in my life. I am 45 and have contemplated many time my mission. I love the 3 questions he asks and I will continue to ask myself them.

Some of you are here to change the world. I wanted to make a difference with my life but I just didn’t know where to start, do I really have what it takes to succeed? If I was successful that I might lose my soul in the process.

You have a very special mission on this earth, a mission that will exceed beyond your wildest dreams,  only if you have the faith and courage to find your intertumoral calling.

I have been where you want to go

Most of you are worried about the wrong thing and for some of you that means you are going to miss the opportunity of a life time. ‘

The hero’s journey of entrepreneurial

I recognize the truth when I see it. I knew that becoming in the LDS faith.

Paradox the hero’s journey is all about you, but it is not about you at all.

Live every moment of your life like it matters, because it does. Life like you have an important mission, because you do. It means seeing struggles as adventures and setbacks as lessons. What matters most isn’t the prize at the end, but how the hero has changed in the process.

Most people are too absorbed to pay attention to the obvious.

Learn how to learn, learn how to make money, and learn how to live a life of meaning.

Making money is hard but it is not complicated.

Learn how to learn is the most important. Learning to listen, learning how to ask questions, learning to make my points, trying not to be the smartest person in the room.

Learning how to live a life of meaning, lose lessons changed my life

Find great roll models and ask them great questions, find 10 roll models, business people, religious leaders, aunts, uncles, etc. triumphs and regrets, lessons they wished they had learned earlier. 3 interviews 20-45, 45-60, at least 3 over the age of 60. All the people over age 60 will say basically the same thing, at the end of life only three questions will matter

1.       Have I contributed something meaningful?

2.       Was I a good person?

3.       Who did I love, and who loved me?

Have I contributed something meaningful…

Never give up your search for a calling, that special mission where you can find your greatest God given gifts and use them in a way that brings you great joy, satisfying a deep burning need in the world.

I had to become an expert at something if I wanted to succeed. Being world class at something mattered. Find a calling that fits your special gifts.

Ask 5 people that know you well what you do better than anyone else in the world, press for specifics, examples and evidence. You will be surprised what you find, the answers will be consistent and you will discover that your gift is something that you assumed was easy, because it is easy for you, even though it is very difficult for others using God given gifts, doing something that brings you great joy.

Think of the last time you lost track of time doing something, something you would practice merely for the sake of practice alone. Something that could become a lifelong discipline that you are committed to master. If you find where your inner most God given gifts intercept with finding great joy you will be very close to your calling,

The last part of the calling is the most important of all, satisfying a deep burning need in the world.

A calling must serve others, it must matter to you,

What need today calls out to your heart, is there an injustice or opportunity that you just can’t resist, what problem do you feel as if you were put on this earth to solve, there you will find your calling.

Was I a good person?

Setting clear ethical guard rails and making it is easy to stay within them, write down a list of all of your “I will nots” moral boundaries you will not cross under any circumstances, and then when you do cross a boundary, recognize it as a signal that it is time to stop, pause, and reflect before you careen down a slippery slope. Anticipate these temptations and then write yourself a letter, a message in a bottle, at that moment of greatest temptation you can hear a better voice.

Do you know what the greatest difference is between you and God, God never believes that He is you.

Who did I love and who loved me?

Choose your fellow travelers well, it is a trip you only take once. Don’t underestimate the power of extraordinary people. Surround yourself with people of character, you will come to be like the people who surround you. In the real world you will need to choose wisely. Spend much time with your family.

Its not about you, it’s all about you.

Its not about your happiness.

A hero’s journey is not easier than a fool’s errand, you will have even more setbacks and more battles because the stakes will be higher, but you will fight those battles and be more satisfied and fulfilled because you will make a difference.

It all about you because you will using your gifts to change the world it will change you in the process and realizing that you serve a force in the universe that is far bigger than you are.

Somewhere along the way if you chose the hero’s journey you will give up measuring yourself against others, if you are on a fool’s errand there is always someone who is smarter, or richer, or better looking, and you will always be dissatisfied and unfulfilled and looking for another rat race to run. But if you are on a hero’s journey the stepping stone you set will be yours and eventually they will lead you to the gift of gratitude.

Think of someone in your life that you are truly grateful for but have never thanked.

Grateful people actually turn out to be luckier.

Everyone of you will look back and realize that you were worrying about the wrong things.

Being rich is about sending less than you make and so your time belongs to you.

Failure once so feared seen in reverse only made you stronger increasingly and especially if you resist the hero’s call, you will find that your greatest horror in life isn’t failure but waking up at 50 or 60 years old and realizing that you have wasted your life.

If you don’t choose a hero’s journey than who will, and if you don’t start now than when?

No matter what happens in my life I know that I was never the master on my own destiny, so when that final day comes, I pray I will not be standing, full of pride, believing that it was all about me, but on my knees fully grateful, longing to hear, well done thou good an faithful servant.