Got some interesting thoughts from one of the books I am reading call( The EMyth). I wish I can one day really talk to these authors, but then I guess if I really meet them in person, I might get very disappointed and discover that they are just another group of stuck-ups. I guess you can be the greatest person talking on stage and your book, but there is no guarantee that this person is not just another asshole in real life.
But anyway, good enough for now that he has something logical to say. Let me just imagine that he is really this wonderful person portraited in his book.
It surprise me how cynical I am.
From EMyth:
You must ask yourself these questions: What do I value most? What kind of life do I want? What do I want my life to look like, to feel like? Who do I wish to be?
Your primary aim is the answer to all these questions.
If you were to write a script for the tape to be played for the mourners at your funeral, how would you like it to read?
That is your Primary Aim.
And once you've created the script, all you need to do is make it come true.
All you need to do is begin living your life as if it were important.
All you need to do is take your life seriously.
To create it intentionally.
To actively make your life into the life you wish it to be.
Simple? Yes.
Easy? No.
But absolutely essential if your business is to have any meaning beyond work.
Because if your business is going to become an integral part of that tape, if your business is going to make a major contribution to the realization of your dream, if your business is going to become a significant component of your Primary Aim, you have to let your business know what that Aim is!
And how can you expect to do that, if you don't know what that Aim is!
And how can you expect to do that, if you don't know what it is?
Do you see why your primary Aim is so important to the success of your business?
With no clear picture of how you wish your life to be, how on earth can you begin to live it?
How would you know what first step to take?
How would you measure your progress?
How would you know where you were?
How would you know how far you had gone?
How would you know how much farther you had yet to go?
Without your Primary Aim, you wouldn't. Indeed, you couldn't. It would be virtually impossible.
As with Mature companies, I believe great people to be those who know how they got where they are, and what they need to do to get where they're going.
Great people have a vision of their lives that they practice emulating each and every day.
They go to work on their lives, not just in their lives. of their future in the present. They compare what they've done with what they intended to do. And where there's a disparity between the two, they don't wait very long to make up the difference.
They go to work on their lives, not just in their lives.
I believe it's true that the difference between great people and everyone else is that great people creates their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next.
The difference between the two is the difference between living fully and just existing.
The difference between the two is living intentionally and living by accident.
Let me repeat once more that great quote by Don Juan in Carlos Castaneda's "A Separate Peace": " The difference between a warrior and an ordinary man is that a warrior sees everything as a challenge, while an ordinary man sees everything as either a blessing or a curse."
