A framework for creating measurable impact in the world rests on four elements: discovering your superpower, telling your significant story, building a network through service, and aligning your life mission with your purpose. Each element works like a roller in a machine, where depth of development determines how fast you generate impact.
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Welcome to Significant Impact Monthly, where we explore and discover ways to get to our significant impact in the world. And we're going to go through, explain that a little bit here. First of all, what is significant impact? Well, first of all, significance isn't this ethereal thing. Significance is deviating from norm or expectation. You know, there's a normal curve of people out there, and there's a lot of people moving in the middle, you know, moving the pack. But folks in this community, oh, we're outliers. We're on that— we're deviants. We deviate from that significant norm or expectation in our performance, how we think about things, how we act, how we behave in the world. We are just a little deviant from everybody else. And that's important because with that significance comes impact. And impact, from my chemical engineering background, impact is, is a force on something, of one object on another. And so when I look at significant impact, you are a force in the world that you're a little different in how you do that, and you know you're a little different than everybody else. So that's significant impact, why we're here. So how do you build that significant impact? And I'm going to walk through this pretty quick in terms of just saying there's 4 aspects that really drive us to that significant impact. The first one is you got to know what your superpower is, and then you hone that superpower into, you know, who you are. And discovering what it is and honing that is a lifetime journey. It's not just something like, oh, I woke up, I know what my superpower is. We have to— we're probably born with some of it, we nature-nurture some of it, but part of that is like, how do you become that superpower that you are? And that's a constant discovery mode. And as you learn more about your superpower, then you learn more about all the tools on your tool belt associated with that superpower. Huge part of building your significant impact. The second one is we're in a life journey. From cradle to grave, we have all these life experiences, and so we have to live into your significant story. That story of that, those deviant stories, those, those breaking from the norm stories that we have. I know for me, I was a wallflower. I was painfully shy in grade school and high school, and then I have a story of how I broke out from that. Well, that's my deviant story. And I'm sure you have a deviant story too. Something out there that just changed and the significance in your life just pivoted on a few of those moments in your life. Those are collecting those stories along the way that is our significant story. And you need to be able to tell those stories as well. So story building and storytelling are two very critical components of being able to live into your significant story. Then, once you've got your superpower, you've got your story going, then you need to activate that significant network. Hey, you know, we're not hermits. We're out in the world doing our work. That's how you have significant impact, by having that impact on the one-on-ones, the day-to-day interactions that you have with the person at the grocery store or the food service person at the restaurant you go to. But also the significant network and that impact you have on your clients, your prospects, and your colleagues, your collaborators. Every day we go through our lives and we meet all these people. Each one is an opportunity to serve. We're going to talk more about that today. And then once you can do all those things, you fulfill your life mission. And that's such a big, tall order. It's like, what's my life mission? We're not here just from cradle to grave just to meander through life. We're here to create that life mission. We have that objective, that thing that we're supposed to live into our DNA and fill out, live into that purpose that we're supposed to have on this planet. So you do these things, these 4 things really well, and I think of these as kind of leading, pardon me, I was gonna sneeze. That's leading to significant impact. And each of these are like rollers. And so you go through these and that drives your significant impact. Each of these rollers, the size of this roller really defines how fast you can get to the significant impact, how much of that has. So if your story is kind of small, Well then, that's going to spin faster and that's going to be your limiting factor here. So we're working on all 4 of these rollers to be of similar size, to grow those out, to really increase our superpower. Live into your significant story, activate that significant impact, and fulfill your life mission. And the more you do these things, the more you generate that significant impact. And the piece that goes through all of those is Oh wow, here we go, is our wisdom exchange. We exchange wisdom when we do this really, really well. Alright, so that's significant impact, walking through our framework, why you're here. And so let's move on to get to the point of the day. When we, when we start our significant impact monthly, I'd like you to anchor today's session on what is a 30-day goal that you have? What is, what is this month's goal for you? And just take a few seconds and just journal that down. What is that goal that you have?
