Finding your Passion

As we begin a new year, many people are thinking about their life choices and what they want to accomplish.  This entertaining TED Talk will have you rethinking some of your life decisions.  My question for you is this: What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?

Finding your Purpose

Pastor Rick Warren of Saddleback Church in California became a household name when he wrote The Purpose Driven Life.  In this low-key TED Talk, he describes a concept he calls the “stewardship of influence” and ties that to finding your God-given purpose in life.  He finishes with a question and a challenge.

2015 – A Year of Purpose

Ed DeCosta is an executive coach who has greatly impacted my life this year with his free weekly video podcast.  Today, as we face a new year, I wanted to share his 5-minute message on Purpose, Priorities, and Intentionality.

Ed is offering a “task management” tool on his website, which I have found very useful myself.

If you are interested in defining your purpose, I would love to help you.  Contact me at TashaTroy@johnmaxwellgroup.com for more information.

 

Merry Christmas!

On this Christmas day, please enjoy one of my favorite Christmas carols.

Defining Your Purpose

As we approach Christmas, with all the time with family that may entail, take a few minutes to consider and/or reconnect with your life purpose.

In his TEDx Talk “How to know your life purpose in 5 minutes,” Adam Leipzig gives us five simple questions that will help us define our purpose in life.

Five simple questions:

1. who you are
2. what you do
3. who you do it for
4. what those people want and need and
5. how they change as a result of how we do it

 

Stillness – a Strategy for Finding Meaning

Especially now that the holiday rush is upon us, it is so important to take time daily to be still.  In this TED Talk, Pico Iyer talks about the importance of stillness.

The Importance of Thanking

This week in the United States, we are preparing to celebrate Thanksgiving, a time for expressing our gratefulness for all the benefits and blessings we have received over the past year.  Unfortunately, for many this may be the only time of the year they are mindful of giving thanks.

Laura Trice, in her TED Talk Remember to say thank you, talks about the importance of thanking the people in your life.  She says, “We talk about world peace. How can we have world peace with different cultures, different languages? I think it starts household by household, under the same roof. So, let’s make it right in our own backyard.”  I don’t think I could have said it better myself!

 

Why Is Listening So Hard?

Today I want to share with you two very short video clips featuring Dr. Mark Goulston, a business psychiatrist, author of Just Listen, and coauthor of Real Influence.  In these clips from an interview, he shares some observations about how well the average person listens and why people might not listen.

Modern-day Tribes

In this 2009 TEDx Talk, David Logan, Professor of Management at USC, describes about five levels of “tribes,” groups of 20 to 150 people who work, live, or otherwise interact together. He then gives some suggestions for moving your own “tribe” from being groups of individuals to world-changing organizations, steps that we can take to become more unified in our purpose.

 

Connection from Disconnection

The most common internet browsing error is “Page Not Found (404).”  Renny Gleeson demonstrates how an experience of disconnection can be repurposed to increase connection in this short TED Talk.

Notice that his talk is only 4:04 minutes long.