S1, Ep4: Hacks for How to Create your Purpose

09/29/21 • 24 min

It was a cliffhanger ending last week, thanks for coming back to ensure you have the all important second half of your WHY.
Last week we shared why it was crucial to knowing your vision/why and the danger of a life in autopilot. This week we reveal all the good tools to uncovering and starting to live your vision.

Find your vision & provide a clear path for your future self to live by

Articulate your vision & see it start to come to life daily

Value of strategic goals

Creating a purpose statement or mission

Finding a guiding word

Give you tools to uncover your strengths & personal values

Elevate weekly challenge

ELEVATE WEEKLY CHALLENGE:

Take your draft from last week (or start one today - no judgement) and start to rumble with the words. Interrogate and test the key concepts you have in your vision statement. Remove repetition, ensure your why / vision is big enough that you can live by them in all facets of your life. If you need to dig into one of the models discussed to help refine your statement please do.

Ideally you want to get your vision/why to one sentence, maybe two max, or perhaps you can pull it into a word you can present consistently.

CONTENT MENTIONED

Carolyn Tate, The Purpose Project https://carolyntate.co/

Simon Sinek, Find your Why

Ali Edwards, One Little Word https://www.aliedwards.com/one-little-word-2021

Tom Rath, Strengths Finder (Gallup Strengths Finder Survey) https://www.tomrath.org/book/strengthsfinder/

Brene Brown, Dare to Lead https://daretolead.brenebrown.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Values.pdf
Jeff Hayden, The Motivation Myth
https://www.booktopia.com.au/the-motivation-myth-jeff-haden/book/9780399563768.html

Nick Leighton, Forbes 5 Reasons Why you need a Personal Mission Statement
https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbescoachescouncil/2019/10/08/five-reasons-why-you-need-a-personal-vision-statement-and-how-to-write-one/?sh=18e254f61ab5
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Find your vision & provide a clear path for your future self to live by

Articulate your vision & see it start to come to life daily

Value of strategic goals

Creating a purpose statement or mission

Finding a guiding word

Give you tools to uncover your strengths & personal values

Elevate weekly challenge

ELEVATE WEEKLY CHALLENGE:

Ideally you want to get your vision/why to one sentence, maybe two max, or perhaps you can pull it into a word you can present consistently.

CONTENT MENTIONED

Carolyn Tate, The Purpose Project https://carolyntate.co/

Simon Sinek, Find your Why

Ali Edwards, One Little Word https://www.aliedwards.com/one-little-word-2021

Tom Rath, Strengths Finder (Gallup Strengths Finder Survey) https://www.tomrath.org/book/strengthsfinder/

Music created by Claire's daughter Hannah

Previous Episode

S1, Ep3: Why we've got to talk about our Why

In this episode we will explore the brain science and long known benefits of taking charge & setting the vision and goals. As always we have scoured the best content out there to bring you a curation of the best tips, insights and knowledge. You will discover that being passive in vision / why undermines your efforts in every area of your life.

Starting out that why vision is so important
Benefits of setting your vision
Three hacks to help you unpack your why
Elevate Action challenge
Show notes below with all of the great links

ELEVATE ACTION CHALLENGE:
Let's find your key goal and action for now. Start with an SFD (remember it's only paper)
Set yourself a timer know 10 minutes and write down everything that comes to mind - thoughts on visions, goals, things you love doing. If you have finished in 3mins then start to use one of the models from the podcast (listed below).
Once the timer stops its pen down & walk away. That's it - just 10mins today.
Next let it ruminate - allowing thoughts to flow in the shower, exercising, and getting your brain to work for you while you sleep.
First thing in the morning (next day or as soon after as you can) open up your book, don't look at what you wrote, first just write down everything that comes top of mind. Then go back and review your earlier list and start to articulate your key vision and narrow in on what is the most important goal that you really want to achieve now. Perhaps there's one for each category of your life. Perhaps there's just one big one that you just really want to work towards. If there are extra gems on the page, save them in your calendar or somewhere that you'll look back to. Next week when we go through our what, then we'll start to really narrow down on our vision.
SHOW NOTES:
Simon Sinek - https://youtu.be/yNiWviKEoa8 (a short video from Simon Sinek presenting his concept around why) reminder: this is business focused but absolutely can be applied to your vision & why. His books - Start with Why and Find your Why
https://www.booktopia.com.au/start-with-why-simon-sinek/book/9780241958223.html Carolyn Tate, The Purpose Project
https://www.booktopia.com.au/the-purpose-project-carolyn-g-tate/book/9780646971001.html
Dominic Price of Atlassian: https://domprice.me/personal-moral-inventory/
>> Consider your life in 4 buckets - Productivity & Profit, Purpose, People, Planet and seek to first score yourself -1 to 1 on how you are tracking and then consider a vision for each area.
Michelle Obama, Becoming - both in book form and also as a Netflix special https://www.netflix.com/au/title/81122487
Quote from Michelle Obama in Becoming: "What I've learned is that getting back on what track? It's a whole new track. It's not getting back on track. I'm creating my next track. I'm doing what you're doing. I'm figuring out what I want to do, what I care about. And it takes time to process your life and figure out what it all means."
Brene Brown: For more on SFDs check out Unlocking Us the podcast or Brene's website for a quick cheat sheet: https://brenebrown.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/The-SFD-and-Checking-Our-Stories-Secondary-8-1-19.pdf
7 core value areas: #1 career or contribution #2 financial #3 personal #4 spiritual & connectedness #5 intellectual #6 relationship and #7 physical health.
For more thought starter hacks please check out our blog on the website: www.elevatewithgrace.com.au

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Next Episode

S1, E5: "The One Thing" Book Review

This episode we are bringing you a book review of THE ONE THING, The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results, by Gary Keller & Jay Papasan.
Having found this book a couple of months into our Elevate with Grace planning we just had to share it as part of our podcast series as there are some terrific synergies with our purpose of curating the amazing content that’s out there in the world into bite sized actionable steps for you to take you on your journey of leading a life of success on your own terms, as defined by you.
Listen in to learn more about taking back your time with a focus on your 'IMPORTANT' time and not 'URGENT' times.
Elevate Weekly Challenge:
What is the ONE THING they can do this week to help them reach their goals. Take action on your first domino, and then the next towards your dreams. The constant mantra of this book - what’s the one thing I can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary.
Check out The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results book. Affiliate link: booktopia.kh4ffx.net/elevate
Top 10 Quotes from the book:

“Work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls-- family, health, friends, integrity-- are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.”
"Life is about creating yourself so the trick to success is to choose the right habits with enough discipline to master it."
“Extraordinary results happen only when you give the best you have to become the best you can be at your most important work.”
“Your next step is simple. You are the first domino.”
“Don’t let small thinking cut your life down to size. Think big, aim high, act bold. And see just how big you can blow up your life.”
“A different result requires doing something different.”
“One of the most empowering moments of my life came when I realized that life is a question and how we live it is our answer.”
“Achievers always work from a clear sense of priority.”
“Long hours spent checking off a to-do list and ending the day with a full trash can and a clean desk are not virtuous and have nothing to do with success. Instead of a to-do list, you need a success list—a list that is purposefully created around extraordinary results.
To-do lists tend to be long; success lists are short. One pulls you in all directions; the other aims you in a specific direction. One is a disorganized directory and the other is an organized directive. If a list isn’t built around success, then that’s not where it takes you. If your to-do list contains everything, then it’s probably taking you everywhere but where you really want to go.”
“People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures.” —F. M. Alexander

References:

The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results, Gary Keller with Jay Papasan.
The One Thing Podcast: Geoff Woods
Katy Milkman episode: the1thing.com/podcast/310/
Miracle Morning: Hal Elrod
80/20 Pareto Principle
Brain Rules: John Medina

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Elevate with Grace - S1, Ep4: Hacks for How to Create your Purpose

Transcript

Claire00:00:14.949

Welcome to the Elevate with Grace podcast, for people who are short on time and long to take steps to create success on their own terms. At school university. And in our early careers, we work hard and we approach those challenges with courage, ambition, and passion. We have lots of hope and energy for creating lifelong success on our own terms. And then something happens as we head into our thirties and beyond. We start to hold ourselves back and p