How would you measure your life?

It was eye opening to learn to keep my purpose front and center as I decide how to spend my time, talents and energy. Too many successful people I know and look up to have broken marriages and relationships because they lost focus of their purpose. I do not think people ever plan to break up especially after living a successful life but I think that if we do not keep our purpose in mind in our daily living we tend to go astray. As taught in chapter 4, people are driven to excel have unintentionally underinvest in their families and overinvest in their careers. “The intimate and loving relationships with family are the most powerful and enduring source of Happiness.” This line from this week’s lesson couldn’t be more true.

I have read and heard about too many great employees quit their job because of bad work management and employment leaders and always who’s at fault here and what could have been done but this week we learn about Creating a Culture at work where you have to have Tools of Cooperation – have a system and ways where you encourage employees to work together to achieve goals and not work against each other.

Choose the right yardstick. Although I knew this before, it was refreshing to be reminded that the Lord uses a different metric to judge our works – how we touch people’s lives and those we have helped become better people.

Deconstructing your fears. Write them down, how you would go about fixing it, and what would happen if your plan does not work. It is always good to have a plan B. I think applying this to my daily life and fears really help me build my confidence in areas I never thought I would get better at, e.g. fear of public speaking or speaking at church. There is nothing really to fear. I am grateful I learn this lesson.