If you're still struggling to find your Life's Purpose …

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  • July 28, 2008

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If you are still struggling to write your Rear Deck Speech (a prerequisite to coming up with a short, meaningful statement of your Life’s Purpose), I’m not sure if this tool will help you or not, but try it out anyway:

http://www.nightingale.com/mission_select.aspx

If you do try and use it (and, why not) I suggest that you ignore the concept of the ‘personal mission statement’ (it seems like a bunch of baloney, to me) and instead use some of the phrasing that it comes with at the end to help you write your Rear Deck Speech …

… it’s from that, that I hope that you will find your short (6 to 16 words) statement of your Life’s Purpose, or at least a reasonable facsimile thereof :)

Remember: without a clear ‘vision’ of your Life’s Purpose:

1. The Number that you may select (perhaps using any of the last half-dozen posts to help you) will be meaningless, and

2. You will not have the psychologcal fortitude to withstand the long, windy journey with its inevitable financial and emotional up/down swings on your way to any ’stretch’ target (i.e. $3 Mill.++) … of course, if your target is merely $1 Mill. you can just relax and keep funding that 401k and you’ll (eventually) make it :)

Let me know if it helped or hindered …

AJC.

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Written by:
Diane
Posted on:
July 28, 2008 at 3:24 pm

All I can say, AJ, is that it’s pretty da** funny! I let it send me the first one for later editing because it just doesn’t cut-and-paste as easily as they thought it would.

This does take a bit more time than looking at the board, but it is a hoot.

Not making light of how good this could be, but I hope everyone else has a good time with it… It reminds me of a game some folks play with adding words at the end of a fortune cookie’s fortune.

And, it does pinpoint that maybe I need to think about this some more. LOL….

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Written by:
AJC
Posted on:
July 28, 2008 at 4:35 pm

@ Diane – Looks like jury is still out on this one :)

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Lee
Posted on:
July 29, 2008 at 12:05 pm

Thanks, it helped clear up some things for me. For those of us who are on the low end of this great experiment we have had steady of diet of “baloney” for a long time and it still satisfies us. On the other end where the steak is we may need to develop a taste for it. Hopefully part of this adventure will allow for us examine what is being said and not just jump because you said jump. I hope to learn some principles that I can incorporate among the things that I am already doing correctly and of course weed out those ways of doing wrong.
Thanks for being patient.

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AJC
Posted on:
July 29, 2008 at 12:09 pm

@ Lee – nothing wrong with eating baloney … there are plenty of places in the world where that would be considered a luxury. The point: it’s all relative … tell me what you NEED to eat, then let’s go from there :)