Your Life's Work

My life's work is to be a good steward of my time, talents, and resources, develop transformative relationships, nurture good work that advances the greater good, and encourage others to do the same.

Given the state of the world and the dynamics of the economy, it’s more crucial than ever that everyone figures out appropriate roles and good contributions to society.

In order to advance the greater good, I believe we must stay awake, have an open mind and a good heart, and organize ourselves.

When you discover your life’s work and continue to learn about it, you will see your life’s work has integrity because it is shaped by your values and visions. Ask yourself: Who am I? What was I born to do?

Your life’s work is an opportunity to do what you love and what seems natural. What are your natural talents and abilities?

By working from your natural flow, it encourages you to pursue excellence, to strive to be your best, to live into your greatest potential. What is your potential?

Your life’s work provides opportunities for good stewardship, for serving the greater good. What is your greatest contribution to others? What gifts do you want to share?

Stay awake and aware. Be curious. Question why things are the way they are. Ask why. Imagine how your world could be improved and what role you can play in making it happen. Develop a vision for how your home, family, work, and community can be. Bring people around the vision and work together to develop the goals and strategies to get there.

What’s keeping you from your true vocation, your calling? How do you get from where you are to where you want to be? What steps could you take to overcome any obstacles, remove barriers, and get beyond where you are now? Should you…
• Reorganize your time?
• Build empowering relationships or the right connections?
• Obtain more education or different training?
• Carve out more reflection and visioning time?
• Have true, meaningful, and intimate conversations?
• Improve your communication skills?
• Develop a greater understanding of culture, society, history, trends, markets, the world’s diversity, or the planet’s resources?
• Cultivate greater intellectual agility?

So what needs to happen to be successful in your life’s work?

You know you must develop the know-how to do what you want to do. Learn what works in your chosen field or career.

Success and progress, however you define them, require commitment and dedication.

You must believe opportunity is abundant. You need to learn to see opportunities, and to create them as well.

Create good goals. Goals are focused intentions, seeds of change. Goals help us clarify what we want in our lives. Goals should help us stretch. Goals should be about you, not others. To encourage action, results, progress, and impact, goals should be as specific as possible. Create good goals and then put the hard work in to achieve them.

Be a lifelong learner. Reflect. Learn. Forgive. Renew. Organize. Adapt.

As Gandhi said, "We must be the change we wish to see in the world."