Quarterly Circle was a success. Almost too much of a success lol as I completed pretty much everything with about 24 hours before I had to leave. But taking that opportunity to learn and reflect. Feel good about what I've set out to accomplish in the next 3 months and the narrowing of focus that's helped that direction. I also have set a clearer direction for longer term vision of who I want to be, so more clarity there. Overall, feel aligned and focused for the rest of the year, which was my intention coming in.
I also finally went through my Thought Vault and organized them as I've neglected to do for the past 7 months. Feels nice to get that off my shoulders. Lot of those 250 or so thoughts now are in the Content Pipeline as Potential Ideas to journal about. So whenever I journal and don't necessarily have a topic, I can just go to this, pick one, and dive deep on it.
I've realized the value of my content is not solely on each individual piece of content or even the channel. It's the whole network of it put together. Gary Vee always said "Don't listen to what I'm saying, watch what I'm doing." What I'm doing is sharing my journey from all sides of me. Ultimately, there's going to be someone who comes along and listens, reads, watches a significant amount of it and want to connect with me deeper. From there, the growth of the content community will be massive.
The other day, while talking with Dan, I used a modification of a metaphor that I hadn't used before and I liked it. It was in the context of energy creation and sharing. Sometimes we focus on 'What can we do for society and our community?' And that's genuinely a great place to come from. Using the bucket analogy, it's like taking what's in your bucket (your energy) and pouring it into other buckets. What I expressed was a different approach. What if we focused solely on filling up our bucket? Then the result is that the bucket will fill up quicker and ultimately overflow. This overflow will fill up the buckets of those around us without a choice. There's no room for the water in my bucket to go anywhere else than into someone else's bucket. I think that's the approach that works best for me. If I can fill myself with boundless energy and love, it will invariably lead to me sharing that positive energy and love with others. I'll want to share it instead of it being a point of emphasis to put my energy towards. That love will follow the path of least resistance. In this case, to others. Instead of it being a core value that we 'strive for', that sharing mentality will be an unquestionable bar that we never 'go below.' In my opinion, that's when it's truly selfless. If we make it a point of my personal or business agenda to do well in the community, then the result may very well be the same. But the intention may be different. On the other hand, if we have so much love and energy that our mere existence exudes these qualities, then that fraction of the 'selfish' intention will be gone. Our state of being will be philanthropic. Our first instinct will be to help others. Everything we do will be driven by love. I think that's what getaways like these allow us to do. It helps us align on what and how we can help ourselves, and in turn, help our communities. Instead of just going along with social and traditional media and the new disaster or tragedy that's taking place and donating and time, money, and energy towards that (which is very much needed), I want to be more focused and aligned on what and how my largest and most valuable impact can be realized for the greatest good. It may seem like I'm not donating anything or being woke by reposting stuff, but this is the lane of the highway that I've chosen. To imagine, to plan, to build, to create, to change for good through my ideas. Of course, though, the process of having that fully selfless intention is exactly that: a process. You need to first bring it to awareness. Then as it's a factor of making decisions, it'll continue to grow into our conscious and subconscious. Ultimately, it'll become a part of our identity without even having to think about it. So really, true and pure selflessness is a habit of focusing on yourself. What are you doing to cultivate this habit?
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