Why do I want the experience of never losing sight of my purpose mission & values?
Very apt because I was writing & mapping out the Values workshop for my business. It's one thing going through the initial process yourself. But then to teach it intentionally, methodically & with a beginner's mindset is what the best coaches & teachers are able to do. It was more in-depth & deliberate when I was creating the structure for others compared to if it was just me using it. It requires a deep knowledge of the subject at hand to teach something well. And this may be for right now, one of the only few things that I can teach well on.
It really comes back to experience. I live with my purpose, mission, & values as often as I can. And not just knowing it theoretically but actually living it every single day. Of course, I'm human & I'm going to naturally come up short sometimes compared to those ideals. But if I can make as infrequent & insignificant those moments as possible then that's a goal. By continuing to teach this type of material to others the material will become increasingly entrenched and embedded within me. So in a way, I will want & should always be in some sort of coaching role.
The purpose is the why. "Always start with the why." If I have a why, I can always figure out the how. So if I just have a pure intention then the how will actualize itself. Does it perhaps follow some level of congruence? That the purer and clearer the intention the faster and or larger the actualization. Is that why perhaps that when someone prays with pure intention, they feel like their prayers are answered? The thing is you can't really judge / measure the purity of someone's thoughts/prayers/intentions. Is that why the material world exists? It's a way of measuring the results. But then how do I reconcile the results that are created by people whose intentions are not in line with being "good" humans.
Hmm, I think there's a link here between benevolence of intention & longevity of results. The thing is look at people like Hitler or Pol Pot. They had clear intentions. Their missions were very clear. And they got results that they wanted to a certain extent. It's the longevity of those results that weren't sustainable.
So let's say there's the strength of the intention. Then there's access to actualizing that intention. Money is a form of access. Power is a form of access. Like, Hilter & Pot & Trump all had a great deal of $ / power / access. Is that leverage? Perhaps it's encapsulated nicely as leverage. So leverage is the physical world's highest level factor in actualizing something.
What about the metaphysical world? So I think intentions are the highest level answer here. What are the characteristics / next level of intentions? I actually think the purpose of Mission & Values are aspects of intentions, but that they're not indicative themselves of intentions. Everyone has these PMVs, whether they're explicit or most of the time, implicit. It's to what degree of certain factors or adjectives.
I think scale is one. How large of an impact do you want to have? I think service is another. Do they see it as benefiting others or hurting them? Well, what or who is the subject here? Is it the initial person? The impacted person? Or a neutral party ? For example, Hitler may have seen what he was doing as a service. Obviously the victims & survivors did not see it like that and most of the rest of the world didn't see it like that either.
So the weight of the world outweighed Hitler's intentions. The world's view of service outweighed his view of service. So these factors make up the spectrum of service. So we shouldn't be asking "Was this a service or not?" We could instead be asking what percentage of people would view this as a service?" With the object of the service having a somewhat disproportionate amount of the weighted average here.
I think clarity is the 3rd factor here. Is the intention crystal clear or is there ambiguity or contradiction? This is I think where the alignment of thought, word, & deed came into bigger play here. Those three things are just different manifestations of intentions. When there isn't alignment, there is contradiction, ambiguity, blockage, hypocrisy. Are there any other factors of intentions? There probably are but this feels comprehensive in just three dimensions for now.
Scale or magnitude
Service or benevolence
Clarity or alignment
So let’s write out the various types of leverage to finish this equation. Taking from Ravikant & Hormozi, one is labor or collaboration. Second is $, or capital. Third is technology or code. 4th is content. I'd add a 5th in there of knowledge or wisdom. This can be knowledge I consume as well as my experiences or others like coaches & mentors. Again this may not be done, but it's pretty comprehensive. The 5 types of leverage are:
Labor or collaboration
Money or capital
Technology or code
Content
Knowledge or wisdom
These are all essentially functions of time, so that's why time isn’t directly a form of leverage. It's implicit in all of them, Pulling that all together, our Life Results = Intentions + Leverage.
Calling this the Life equation.
Commentaires