Success Motivator
Make your success work to help others achieve their measures of success and
hope they, in turn, will do likewise. This is the kind of chain reaction
that is music to my ears.
-- Berry Gordy
Success Tip
Unique Potential and
Purpose
1.
What do I feel are my greatest strengths and
personal talents, those qualities which comprise my unique potential?
…
2.
If I had unlimited time and resources, what
would I choose to do?...
3.
What are the most important relationships in my
life?
4.
What are my most important roles in life? Much
frustration comes from the feeling that we’re succeeding in one role—as an
executive, professional, or entrepreneur, for example—at the expense of
other important roles, such as that of parent or spouse…
5.
In what kind of work does my burning passion
reside? These are dimensions of myself that I daydream about and wish I
could channel more energy (and time) into…
6.
Who is the person who has had the greatest
positive influence on my life?...
7.
What am I most proud of in my life? Describe
how you’ve made a difference to your business, community, or family. What
are the greatest contributions you hope to make? Project this into the
future, say 100 years out. Is this the legacy you want to leave, the
difference you most want to be remember for? If not, what is?
8.
Start a page in a notebook. Write a sentence or
two in the present tense that evokes the emotional depth of what you care
about and most want to do. And then enter the heading, “My personal calling
and purpose in life is…"
From the book:
Executive EQ
by Robert Cooper, Ph.D., and Ayman Sawaf
Grossett/Putnam, New York, 1996
