Sensing Culture and Bettering Life

If someone were to grant you 3 wishes right this moment, would you know what you wanted without hesitation? If you had to choose quickly, would you have any regrets?  Most likely, but why?

Well, I would argue it’s because you haven’t asked yourself what you want in life often enough.  So, what do you want in life? No… what do you REALLY want in life?  Promotions, job security, a raise, time-off, acknowledgment, praise, a relationship,  a new car, power? Think deeper… why would you want these things? What do they get you?

Most likely, after consideration, I bet you’ll assume they’ll get you: Happiness… Fulfillment… Connectivity… Purpose…

And, you probably could convince me, or more importantly yourself, that there are a couple more items that would be much more appropriate on this list for you personally.  But, after fully examining one’s life/ambitions/yearnings; almost all people come to these deeper terms.  Why is that?

Well, just like sight, smell, hearing, taste and touch (the senses of human physical existence); these are the senses of human emotional/spiritual existence.  Did you think you only had 5 senses? You also have senses of movement, like: balance, texture (touch in the 4 dimension), and time etc.  But, what happens when you pay attention to all these in the context of your life?

Be quiet; completely still just for a moment.  What anxieties do you feel?  What is your gut telling you?

If you listen to it.  I mean really key into it.  And not those first superficial urgings, but keep listening till you hear that deeper inner-rumble… You’ll begin to find what you really want in life…   Now as an experiment, imagine basing just 33%, or one third,  of your day to day decisions on that feeling.  Go ahead… imagine that if every one in three times you crossed one of life’s many little decisions in a day, you contemplated fully (in the blink of a second) how that moment would affect your journey towards happiness, fulfillment, connectivity, purpose etc…

Do you think you would make better choices?  Of course you would.

This same principle applies to your company.  If everyone in your organization were able to base not all, but even a small percentage of their decisions on the deeper purposes of the company, imagine what would happen.  The results would amaze you.

Take away: Mission.  Vision.  Values.  <— Develop them.  Spread them.  Use them.  For start-ups: let them become the tools that help your business become what it wants to be when it grows up.