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How to Start a fire: Find what you are passionate about and focus the flame
This document provides tools and exercises for finding one's passion and purpose in life and work. It discusses the difference between passion, which is any powerful emotion, and purpose, which is the reason something exists. Various exercises are presented, such as naming one's talents in the form of a gerund and noun, to help discover one's passion and spark. Additional tools like creating a mission statement or personal branding statement can then help focus that passion into a clear sense of purpose. The document encourages exploring new things, learning, and finding flow as ways to light one's spark and passion.
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- 1. How to Starta Fire! Find the spark of passion & focus it into a flame Let’s get started!
- 2. NPR article: "Peoplewith purpose live 15% longer"
- 3. The skills weneed to shine are not often taught Many employers say that Soft skills are lacking Communication Teamwork Goal setting Time management Emotional intelligence Self esteem
- 4. We have anenergy crisis Only 29% of the U.S. working population is fully engaged at work. Gallup State of the Am. Workplace survey
- 5. What stops usfrom connecting with the energy of passion?
- 6. The difference betweenpassion & purpose passion: n., any powerful or compelling emotion or feeling purpose: n., the reason for which something exists or is done, made, used, etc. Passion is like a flame… Purpose is like a laser.
- 7. There’s no magicformula…but there are ways to look for clues
- 8. What’s your tennisball?
- 9. What lights youup? Try new things Learn Explore Find your flow
- 10. Tools for findingthe spark Name your talent exercise from the book “Is Your Genius at Work?” by Dick Richards Oprah’s Find Your Passion exercise… & more tools at dailyplanitwiki.pbworks.com /Talents
- 11. Name Your TalentExercise A gerund (verb ending in ing) + noun Example: “Creating Clarity” Try on til it feels right! Finding Genius Tool (pdf)
- 12. Tools to focusthe energy of passion into purpose Mission Statement/Manifesto Written statement of what you want to be & do based on your principles USP/Value Statement The special benefit you can provide & why you want to Elevator Speech/Verbal Business Card Quick verbal answer to “what do you do?” Tools for Personal Branding at List.ly.
- 13. Start With Why Simon Sinek TED Talk & Book WHY-purpose HOW-you will achieve it WHAT-you do
- 14. Let’s make theworld a brighter place!
- 15. Find It. PlanIt. Do It. Explore more at www.dailyplanit.com On Purpose course at Udemy Get Goaling eBook Productive magazine article on personal branding
Editor's Notes
- #3 Do you know someone who is passionate about something? NPR article:15% lower risk of death, no matter when people found their passion. Passion is our greatest renewable energy resource. When we connect with what we are passionate about, great things happen: we’re happier, more productive, more creative. The world is a better place.
- #5 What % of people in America are fully engaged at work? Face an energy crisis. Gallup survey- only 29% fully engaged at work in U.S. Few know what their passion is. The top 10 skills employers say they want are rarely taught.
- #6 What stops us from connecting with the energy of passion? When you find the spark and focus the flame, it provides powerful motivation.
- #7 What’s the difference between passion and purpose? Purpose is the focused energy of passion. It is like a laser, passion is the flame.
- #8 What’s the difference between passion and purpose? No magic formula. Tools to help explore interests, skills, strengths and talents
- #9 What are you always chasing? “The most successful people are obsessed with solving an important problem, something that matters to them. They remind me of a dog chasing a tennis ball.” Drew Houston, founder of Dropbox
- #10 What activities are you doing when you lose all track of time? Find your flow Explore, learn, play
- #11 The Name Your Talent exercise from the book “Is Your Genius at Work” by Dick Richards. Write a gerund (a verb ending in ing) and a noun that describe what you love to do on the nametag.
- #13 personal branding tools help us get clear. Create an interesting answer to what you do and why. Tools at List.ly (on handout)
- #14 Often start with What you do, Start with Why. People are most interested in your why.
- #16 Thank you for coming! Request input: feedback/evaluation form, ideas for topics/resource, help organzing. Drawing for goal coaching session. Number under chair wins candle/dynamite.