Hi Friends, This edition of Lessons Learned on the Road to Purpose reveals the real driving force behind purpose-inspired organizations — a quality that may surprise you. Remember, ride at dawn! -Roy
Purpose
The Purpose of Life (Really!)
Hi Friends, Is it possible to define life’s Purpose in three minutes? Watch this installment of Lessons Learned on the Road to Purpose to hear our take on keeping it simple. Ride at dawn! -Roy
Dealing with Dissonance
As human beings, we get very uncomfortable when our internal beliefs don’t match up with our external reality. When what we believe and what we see or do or experience don’t align, we consciously or unconsciously yearn to reconcile the discrepancy. There are several possible paths we might take to alleviate this cognitive dissonance and […]
Purpose, Mission and Vision
Hi Friends, The latest installation in our video series, Lessons Learned on the Road to Purpose is about the difference between purpose, mission and vision. Ride at dawn! -Roy
Discovering the Power of Purpose
Dear Friends, Here are a few thoughts on how we first discovered the Power of Purpose. We learned from Jim Collins that all of the visionary companies that will be built to last will have a purpose beyond making money. Ride at dawn! -Roy
Pleasure, Purpose & the Pursuit of Happiness
Since our inception as a nation, the Pursuit of Happiness has been viewed as an unalienable right of all people. We all have a right to be happy. We all want to be happy. And yet, we’re often at a loss for how to go about cultivating more happiness in our lives. In his book Happier, […]
Road to Purpose
Dear Friends, Here are a few words about my grand adventure on the road to Purpose and lessons learned along the way. Ride at dawn! -Roy
Forget what’s wrong. Ask what’s right?
There seems to be a natural human tendency to be preoccupied with what’s wrong. I think the intention is often good—let’s get to the heart of the problem so we can fix it. So we ask: What’s wrong with a situation? What’s wrong with this organization? With this child? With this country? But personal fulfillment, higher performance […]
Increasing Your Purpose Ratio
On any given day, you’re going to feel a certain amount of negative emotions (disappointment, sadness, anger, anxiety) and a certain amount of positive emotions (joy, excitement, love, hope). Positive Psychologist, Barbara Fredrickson, calls this the Positivity Ratio. Most people go through life with a kind of 1:1 balanced ratio. When you ask them, ‘how’s […]
Seeing the Seeds of Greatness
“We all have more potential than meets the unappreciative eye.”–Tal Ben-Shahar Think of your innate potential as a tiny little seed buried deep within. It needs light. It needs water. It needs nourishment in order to flourish. But before any of that can happen, it needs to be seen. Someone has to acknowledge that the […]
The Proliferation of Purpose
We have extraordinary levels of freedom to choose how we will live and how we will contribute to the flourishing of the system we all share. As my friend Raj Sisodia pointed out, we can be like the caterpillar—choosing to consume everything we see for our own gratification, paying no heed to any destruction left in our […]