Posts Tagged ‘contribution’
Budgeting for health, not survival
We put a significant portion of our health care budget toward keeping people alive during their last two years. We put almost no money and energy toward teaching our culture how to cultivate and maintain their health throughout life in an effort to avoid such an enjoyable couple of final years. Imagine if budgets swung…
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Health
Light is not the absence of darkness. Health is not the lack of disease. Life is more than driving a carcass. Wealth is giving loved ones the keys.
Read MoreOn contribution: 34 words after 34 years on Earth
Identify (1) simple solutions (2) to unnoticed problems (3) that genuinely need to be solved, and (4) deliver them with language that can be received, (5) starting with a “shotty first draft”, then (6) repeat AOAP (as often as possible).
Read MoreAlignment is efficiency.
Efficiency is conserving resources while achieving a result. Of our resources, time is the most fixed. So how are you aligning the rest of your energy, money, relationships, experiences, and skillsets? Are you… investing vs spending money? investing vs exerting energy? investing in vs having relationships? Investing resources that achieve an outcome that serves other…
Read MoreMeasure twice, serve once.
1) What is your vision? 2) What is the vision of those you want to help? How can you align the two so that every one of your actions contributes to both? Those that contribute the most don’t contribute more than others. They align their contributions so that their contributions to others contribute to their…
Read MoreConnection Strategy
Anytime we find ourselves in conflict, it’s best to focus on and clear our side of it first. A strategy to begin resolving most conflict from our side of the net is to ask the following questions in your mind: 1) What would all of this look like if it was easy? 2) When I’m…
Read MoreListening is relational proprioception
Proprioception is the perception or awareness of the position and movement of your body. The reason this is important is that you use this information to guide your decision making about position and movement. As you walk, it is proprioception that tells you the shape and firmness of the ground and helps guide appropriate motor…
Read MoreThe inefficient effectiveness of 1-to-1
In a world where it’s easier to send a mass email, easier to make it easier, and less likely that our connections-made become connections-maintained, the law of supply-and-demand increases the value on choosing to do the emotional labor of helping where you’re needed. Before you decide where you are best positioned to serve your community,…
Read MoreOne vision is one version
Being a parent requires having vision. If being a parent is the highest priority, then all other activities are strategies that promote this. Becoming a partner and/or spouse is a strategy to be a better parent. A chosen profession is a strategy to be a better parent. Aligning the ability to find enjoyment by contributing…
Read MoreThe vision bucket
Having a vision is like having a really big bucket. It is the biggest bucket that life’s other buckets are placed within. If a smaller bucket like a career, relationship, or hobby is being filled with the resources of time, energy, focus, and money it is most effective and efficient for the filling of that…
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