Finding Your Focus in Life and Work – Part 2
How often do you set goals and fail to achieve them? While goals can be a great way to focus your efforts and create a roadmap for personal and professional growth, they can also be too rigid and hard to follow. From my experience, focusing on outcomes is a more effective approach. And before stepping out to achieve them, it’s important to be clear on how they differ from goals.
Finding Your Focus in Life and Work – Part 1
In sales, "Let me reflect on that, and I’ll let you know" often means "no." But when it comes to personal growth, it means "there’s a lesson here, and I need to find it." Whether we feel stuck or need clarity, taking time to reflect on our experiences can help us find our focus and regain direction.
Compelling Cause
What's the difference you want to make?
When I was growing up, my dream was to become an Engineer and much of my early career was spent managing engineering projects. A key lesson I learned in that role was that you can manage things, but you need to lead people.
I discovered that a key differentiator between success and failure usually had a lot to do with effective leadership skills; with leading people well. I found that you can get the best out of people when you can turn “have-to” into “want-to” because then people inspire themselves to be great.
How to "live usefully"
We can choose to be intentional and live usefully; to live our lives “on purpose”, to make a living “on purpose”, and to run our organisations “on purpose”, with a purpose that is greater than simply making a profit or surplus.
“I would rather have it said ‘he lived usefully’ than ‘he died rich’.”
~ Benjamin Franklin.