Brian Johnson explores Jack Canfield's principle on having a clear life purpose. He walks through exercises to help you figure out why you're here and what matters most to you.
Hi, this is Brian. Welcome back to another heroic plus one. In our last plus one, we talked about Jack Canfield's success principles. Pop quiz. Do you recall his number one principle for success? Hint. It was also Stephen Covey's number one habit. We must be proactive as we take 100% responsibility for our lives. As you may recall, we talked about Canfield's little equation, E plus R equals O. The event happens perfect. It is what it is. It's your response to that event that determines the outcome. Today we're going to talk about principle number two. Be clear on why you're here. Canfield tells us, and I quote, you see, without a purpose in life, it's easy to get sidetracked on your life's journey. It's easy to wander and drift. Accomplishing little but with a purpose. Everything in life seems to fall into place. To be on purpose means you're doing what you love to do, doing what you're good at in accomplishing what's important to you. When you truly are on purpose, the people, resources and opportunities you need naturally gravitate toward you. The world benefits too, because when you act in alignment with your true life purpose, all of your actions automatically serve others. End quote. Amen. Now we talk about purpose a lot as well. A quick heroic app search for purpose shows over 101s, 298 notes and purpose 101 and purpose 102, featuring 25 of the most powerful journaling exercises I've ever done. And some of my favorite notes include. You may enjoy. Check out the links. Noble Purpose and the Path to Purpose by William Damon, the Four Purposes of Life by Dan Millman, the Great Work of youf Life by Stephen Cope and Mastery by Robert Greene. Each of those is life changing, with life changing literally life changing ideas in each of the notes. Now today we're going to talk about a great little exercise Canfield shares with us to help us discover our purpose. Here it is, along with the example of my responses I shared a decade ago when I first created this. Note number one, Canfield tells us, list two of your unique personal qualities. Two unique personal qualities. My example at the time, enthusiasm and optimism. Number two, we've got some space to write this down in the plus one. Think about it, reflect on it, write it down. We're going to come to the end here and put it all together. Number two, list one or two ways you enjoy expressing those qualities when interacting with others. My example is to inspire and empower. Number three, assume the world is perfect right now? What does this world look like? How is everyone interacting with everyone else? What does it feel like? Write your answer as a statement in the present tense describing the ultimate condition, the perfect world as you see it and feel it. Remember, a perfect world is a fun place to be. My example, Everyone is joyfully living their greatest lives, celebrating every moment as they give their greatest gifts in greatest service to the world. How about you, number four? Combine the three prior subdivisions of this paragraph into a single statement so you take each of those little elements, you put them together. So my example was my purpose is to use my enthusiasm and optimism to inspire and empower others to joyfully live their greatest lives, celebrating every moment as they give their greatest gifts in greatest service to the world. Wrote that over a decade ago. How about you? If you feel so inspired, have fun taking a minute or three, getting a little more clarity on your purpose. Combine a heroic mindset with a clear heroic purpose and we're on track to achieve true success. Day one. All in. Let's go, hero.
