WHAT IS YOUR MISSION OF SIGNIFICANCE?
What makes your
struggle worth going through?
What can you do
today to live more intentionally, deliberately, consistently?
How can you live with significance?
When you honour, respect, and protect your values, you are living intentionally.
But wait! You need to know what they really are.
Intentional
living is a lifestyle based on your conscious attempts to live according to
your values and beliefs. When you
determine what is important to you and WHY it is important to you and live in
the space of integrity and well-being with regard to those things, you are
living intentionally.
Set a policy and
state the reason WHY behind it. Ask
yourself, what value does this bring to me?
Next, create a paradigm about it. Then, align your habits and behaviors with what you want to achieve.
For
example: I will go to bed at 10:00 p.m.
because I want to get my full 8 hours of sleep so that I can function well
throughout the day. I give myself the opportunity to be my very best every day.
Then, set it up that
it is so. Cultivate your new, desirable habit and behaviour deliberately and consistently. Honour, respect, and protect your values, so you create meaning, significance, fulfillment and impact.
When you take
small, but intentional daily actions you are adding to your mission of
significance.
Set a new standard for your life.
“An unintentional life accepts everything and does nothing. An intentional life embraces only the things that will add to the mission of significance.“ - John C. Maxwell
Too often, our
everyday actions betray, contaminate, and derail our mission of significance by
refusing to rally around our long-term goals, our core values, our vision of
what we want our lives to be, and who we want to be.
Our dreams
effectively abandon their partner: commitment.
We get sucked into undesirable habits, dishonorable behaviors, and the
routines of daily living or even pushed around by other people’s agendas that
sometimes do as much as little to support, facilitate, or edify us, or line up
with what we want to do.
Sometimes even,
we are seduced into inaction when we fail to implement the things we know are good
and right for us or resistant to change old habits and behaviours controlled by
the complacency of our very own emotional memory and patterns.
I remember a
time when I was desiring to have more momentum in my life. Yet, I was carrying on a full-blown
relationship with procrastination. I
can’t seem to get around to get what I wanted off the ground. This leaves me feeling guilty, unmotivated, and dissatisfied. I had walked away from the corporate world to pursue my many passions and gifts. Procrastination caught up with me on my solo-entrepreneur journey.
So, I set a
policy. I dumped my lover, Waste of Time Procrastination for my new lover, Momentum Magic!
WHY?
I
value progress, momentum, satisfaction, and well-being - fulfillment!
I made-up my mind to start jogging at 5:00 a.m. for more momentum. This leaves me feeling more energized and motivated
and gave me so much clarity about what I needed to do.
Ultimately, I fully committed to starting my business and now I have discovered the abundant peace and joy of honouring and living my values and a higher calling.
I am a bridge for women.
Adelante!
That mental
shift had a huge impact on my life. It
triggered-up ideas to get my foundation off the ground and how I can support
and sustain it. Running the children and
adult literacy programs brought me more momentum which makes me feel happier,
fulfilled, and free.
Since that 5:00 a.m.
victory run, I had added new, desirable and sustainable habits and behaviors
to my daily routine that rally for who I am becoming. For example: getting my 8+ glasses of water daily
so I can stay hydrated throughout the day, compassionate self-care, eating healthy snacks, time restricted eating, consistent
tithing, and setting boundaries in relationships. I only add and embrace what is important to my
mission of significance. These habits
and behaviours have become a part of my identity.
Positive change in ONE area leads to exponential growth.
“Australian researchers Megan Oaten and Ken Cheng found students who
successfully acquire ONE POSITIVE HABIT reported less stress, less impulsive
spending, better dietary habits, decreased alcohol, tobacco and caffeine
consumption, fewer hours watching TV and even fewer dirty dishes." - The One
Thing by Gary Keller.
I keep asking
myself - what do I need to improve? What
do I need to learn?
I started to
find, create, and integrate margins of success in my daily life, intentionally,
on matters that are important to me – that are my core values. I honour, protect, and respect them with
passion and self-compassion.
What does that
look like?
Learning a new
language. Investing time to develop and
train my mental focus to manage the distractions around me, so that I can get
what I want done - the important stuff.
Science says,
every time we learn something new, we are creating and strengthening new neural
connections – new synapsis in the brain.
This builds Cognitive Reserve. Brain power.
I feel like a
champ on the road and in life. You bet!
To prevent
myself from spinning my wheels and avoid those pitiful start and stop routines,
I use simple, effective, and easy to use practical and proven systems,
strategies, tools and solutions and apply them with intention, vision, and
right action!
Start your new
habits in bite-size portions because staying where it’s comfortable, safe,
familiar, and known is not an option. That’s
not necessarily personal freedom.
Who do you want
to become?
When I decided
to honour, respect, and protect my core values and do the things that I wanted
to do and took easy, small, but SUPER intentional steps to live the life that I want,
I started living from a space of integrity and well-being.
When you
determine what is important to you and live in the space of integrity and
well-being with your core values and beliefs, you are adding to your mission of
significance.
Your intention
matters!
When you start
adding to your mission of significance, you inspire those around you to do the
same. You have impact.
My friend
Rhonda, who lives alone, had been desiring to get her exercise routine off the
ground. And when she learned that I have been running at 5 a.m., she wanted to join me.
She agreed to
meet up with me at a particular location so we can walk together. I say walk because she’s not yet in shape to jog with me. I’ve been jogging for
many years now. She lives in another
part of town, but we managed to make it happened.
I eventually
relocated, but Rhonda continues her early
morning walks. Her compelling desire to
reduce her tummy drives the struggle of resistance training.
What do you
really want?
Who do you want
to become?
What are your
core values?
What matters to
you?
What are your
non-negotiables?
What needs to
change?
What are you
adding to your mission of significance today?
What are some
short-term actions you can change on an hourly, daily basis to support your
goals?
What can you do
today to live more intentionally?
What will bring you meaning, fulfillment and significance? Do it. Live your next best story, now.
“You are the
greatest project you will ever get to work on.
Take your time.” - Anonymous
Set a policy.
Remember your WHY. Do it!
Get my support.
My
wish for you is to flourish in work and life using these tools for
everyday living. Remember, put the small things in the right places and
flourish in work and life.
Thank you so much for stopping by. Please leave a comment so others may be inspired by your insight.
Thank you for the pleasure of your time.
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