ON-PURPOSE

“If you know the why, you can bear any how.” – Nietzsche

Setting aside the question of whether one chooses to live with or without purpose, let’s consider purpose is wired-in at the very moment of conception.

To many, this may seem like an extreme principle, even bordering on the absurd.

Yet, like the enduring metaphor of Michelangelo’s ‘David’ — where the sculpture was seen as already existing within the marble, and Michelangelo merely removed the excess stone — this idea has been resisted through the ages.

A leader once remarked, “I need to let go of so many things.”

I advised, “Don’t worry about those things. Focus on what’s important, and the rest will fall away.”

From purpose, all our real needs and perceived wants emerge, along with the corresponding“ helping functions that reveal them.

We receive cues, scaffolding, support, and lift from our inborn purpose, often subconsciously.

Generati as Generative Leadership

It’s this interplay between our conscious attention, alignment, capability, and the helping available to us that paints our intention as life experience. Here, understanding, adaptation, and assimilation of happiness and success converge — though not everyone has the same inherent need for happiness and success.

Purpose is wired-in @conception.

Just as Michelangelo’s ‘David’ was already within the marble, our purpose is already within us. We live in alignment with that purpose, often unconsciously and it is always available for discovery, disclosure, and acceptance.

“Purpose is working in us

Leaderwork is the ongoing process of bringing that purpose to conscious awareness, making it unconsciously competent over time. “Purpose is what truly matters

You don’t create a purpose; you uncover it by shedding everything that isn’t purposeful, letting it fall away like the marble that concealed ‘David.’

Through self-inquiry, you reveal self-knowledge, which in turn leads to purposeful, actionable behavior.

Our Strategy-Focused Developmental Coaching System (SFDCS) has been refined over the years to distill purpose from:

IDENTITY

• Assumptions and Beliefs
• Vision
• Values
• Principles

• Strategic Direction
• Key Success Factors
• SCHMART Goals
• Standards/Behaviors

• A 25-word statement that succinctly integrates values (identity) and direction(s) toward RightACTION.

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