Lesson 1: Figuring Out What’s Important

Past guest David Allen, author of Getting Things Done*, says there are two problems:

You know what you want, and you don’t know how to get it.

You don’t know what you want

Earl Nightingale said:

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Jim Harter, author of It's the Manager*, says:

Around the world, the great global dream is to have a good job.

Here are questions you might ask to determine your ideal, typical day:

How would the day start?

What would your work look like?

What kinds of people would you be working with?

Where would you live?

What interactions would you have in your community?

What hobby might you do?

What kind of foods would you eat?

What would you feel during that day?

What would you experience?

How would the day end?

What would you remember?

These questions might also help:

What did you really enjoy when you were a kid?

What do you get so engaged with that you lose track of time?

What have you heard from others that you do really well?

Past guest Simon Sinek, author of Start With Why*, says:

You don’t have to have a vision. You have to find a vision.

Austin Kleon reminds us to:

Steal like an artist.

Here are more ways to have others inspire your vision:

Read biographies of the people your admire.

Watch movies that you love and that inspire you.

Tap into great thinkers.

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Resources

Man’s Search for Meaning* by Viktor Frankl

Related Episodes

Getting Things Done, with David Allen (episode 184)

Start With Why, with Simon Sinek (episode 223)

Gallup Findings on the Changing Nature of Work, with Jim Harter (episode 409)

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