The Life Purpose Podcast on Life Signatures Radio

One can never over-emphasise the power of numbers in life. All around us, we are governed by numbers. Our performance and productivity; and indeed, our very existence in life is governed by numbers.

What we ought to do is to become intentional about this. It is easy for us to track and recite numbers of our favourite athletes and sports personalities. It is easy for us to track numbers for business and even for the companies we are employed at.

Where the rubber meets the road is when we come to terms with our very own numbers at a personal level. That is when we shall see revolutions in our lives. Listen to this.

The New Year will always be that one single time that all of creation stands in awe of life and has heightened hopes. It gives us a psychological "new start", if you will.

Part of what billions of people around the globe do is to decide and resolve. We call this "New Year Resolutions". Of course, many a motivational speaker will tell you that the resolutions do not last.

Why is that? The answer is simple. There is lack of numbers. Measures, metrics and statistics are great in governing decisions and resolves. Without these, the decision will be an emotional high that will lack the power to prevail when things get tough.

That's why numbers are important. Listen to this.

It is one thing to have a vision and quite another to have the vision fulfilled. It is one thing to have purpose and quite another thing to pull through a day of drudgery where the inspiration of the purpose is not there.

This is where numbers, measures and metrics come in. At the individual level, it is important to run our lives with some measures and metrics. It is important for us to have statistics that govern our lives.

Without personal statistics, we are like a ship on the sea with no direction to go. It is just tossed up and about and ends up wherever place. The numbers do something unique to our vision. Listen to this.

A friend of mine says that "Growth is not the default mode of operation in the human...drifting is". I totally agree. If you will not be intentional about anything in life, there is a pretty high chance that that thing will not see the light of the day.

That is where numbers come in. It is easy for us to track stats for players, business entities, athletes and so on. It is quite another for us to have our own personal statistics to track. Numbers are critical in our growth and development for they help us to see where we can change.

Listen to this.

Life is defined by numbers. We might not have given attention to that fact, but it is what it is. Everywhere you look, numbers are there to define life. When you talk about performance, you cannot do so without the help of numbers. In fact, if your performance is not governed by numbers in any way, there is no knowing how much you can do and how far you still have to go. Much as we track numbers for sports teams and sports personalities, we only realise late on that this trait can be flipped and used in our own individual lives. When we start tracking ourselves and how we are doing in life, we will go places in terms of our potential and our performance. Listen to this.