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We continue the theme of ‘halftime’ in people’s lives by speaking to Lloyd Reeb, an eminent author and speaker who coaches and mentors for the Halftime Institute.
Lloyd shared with us some great advice about how to use an existing business as a platform to do good for others and for yourself, and his own story will strike a chord with many people too. In his words: “I was pursuing the american dream without any sense as to where it was going to take me”
In today’s episode, you will learn:
What was the moment when he realized his corporate life needed to change?
At the age of 30 he travelled across Asia and ended up in Manilla to visit a friend who was a missionary. He spent most of the week in Manilla playing basketball with kids and talking to them about faith. After that he went to a 5-star resort in Malaysia and realized he had more fun with the kids in Manilla than he did in the sanitized surroundings in Malaysia.
How did he start the process of change?
He looked at his life in the same way as he would look at his businesses. In his words: “you wouldn’t build a business without metrics, but how many of us use metrics for our own life?”
Then his mentor Bob Buford (author of Halftime: Moving From Success To Significance) empowered him further by saying: “You come into my office and give me these goals every year, but you’ve never told me where you want them to take you. Any time you’ve got free, work on the question
‘if your life was perfect; what would it look like?’”
Lloyd’s advice for what you can do today as a family:
Ask yourself three questions:
How can you find your ‘mission’?
The first thing you should do is watch Lloyd’s TEDx Talk. It is amazing and summarized everything you need to know
Lloyd’s big point is for people to understand their mission in life before they make wholesale changes. It might be that their current company/workplace can help them do that or it may be that they have to move on. In his case he defined his mission as being a thought leader rather than an operator, so he relinquished his day-to-day management responsibilities and set about finding fields of work that had thought leadership at the forefront, hence how he became an author.
He has also seen many examples of people using their companies creatively to make the kind of impact they want as part of their mission, i.e. a man who had a company that sold jumpsuits for prisoners created a sub-organization dedicated to preventing convicts from re-offending.
What did Lloyd learn from the battle to change his identity?
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By Arkona - Intentional GrowthWe continue the theme of ‘halftime’ in people’s lives by speaking to Lloyd Reeb, an eminent author and speaker who coaches and mentors for the Halftime Institute.
Lloyd shared with us some great advice about how to use an existing business as a platform to do good for others and for yourself, and his own story will strike a chord with many people too. In his words: “I was pursuing the american dream without any sense as to where it was going to take me”
In today’s episode, you will learn:
What was the moment when he realized his corporate life needed to change?
At the age of 30 he travelled across Asia and ended up in Manilla to visit a friend who was a missionary. He spent most of the week in Manilla playing basketball with kids and talking to them about faith. After that he went to a 5-star resort in Malaysia and realized he had more fun with the kids in Manilla than he did in the sanitized surroundings in Malaysia.
How did he start the process of change?
He looked at his life in the same way as he would look at his businesses. In his words: “you wouldn’t build a business without metrics, but how many of us use metrics for our own life?”
Then his mentor Bob Buford (author of Halftime: Moving From Success To Significance) empowered him further by saying: “You come into my office and give me these goals every year, but you’ve never told me where you want them to take you. Any time you’ve got free, work on the question
‘if your life was perfect; what would it look like?’”
Lloyd’s advice for what you can do today as a family:
Ask yourself three questions:
How can you find your ‘mission’?
The first thing you should do is watch Lloyd’s TEDx Talk. It is amazing and summarized everything you need to know
Lloyd’s big point is for people to understand their mission in life before they make wholesale changes. It might be that their current company/workplace can help them do that or it may be that they have to move on. In his case he defined his mission as being a thought leader rather than an operator, so he relinquished his day-to-day management responsibilities and set about finding fields of work that had thought leadership at the forefront, hence how he became an author.
He has also seen many examples of people using their companies creatively to make the kind of impact they want as part of their mission, i.e. a man who had a company that sold jumpsuits for prisoners created a sub-organization dedicated to preventing convicts from re-offending.
What did Lloyd learn from the battle to change his identity?