Life Lessons 18-05: Connecting Purpose, Vision, Faith, & Gratitude

1. Look at what you do, what you say, what you dream, what you enjoy doing – in it are clues to your life purpose. 
2. In living your life purpose, your ability to lead grows because you understand how to speak your ‘yes and no’ responses to decisions. 

1. Whenever I read the word ‘vision’ in association with my life, I immediately think about living from my future intentions.
2. To live from vision is a way to focus my awareness (attention, and intention) on my path of shared living, leveraging, and leading with measures of laughing and loveraging added.  
3. The more definitive I am in my vision, the more I align with the law of reciprocity.
4. Life is proportional to action.
5. And action follows your decision.
6. Therefore, you decide what you get.
7. And to know what you have, look at the decisions you have made.
8. Today is a residual effect of your decisions yesterday! 

I am reminded:

• Creating a Vision encourages you to take a stand for a preferred future
• Creating a Vision highlights how you lead when you interact with others 

• channels your deepest values into your life and is a word picture of how values are lived out
• inspires and engages your hands, head and heart 
• highlights what you are living/ leading/ working from – it brings to light your upcoming learning
• provides direction and a preferred future that organizes energy and aligns it in an action-directed manner 
• is so clear that it is a virtual reality experienced in terms of all the senses - about sensing, believing and behaving the future NOW

1. Scan some magazines and cut out nine pictures that connect with you.
2. Identify six words that have great meaning for you.
3. Write down three phrases that resonate with you (or cut ad headlines from the magazines).
4. With your 9-6-3 ideas … keep moving them around until ‘something’ jumps off the table.
5. Be open to surprise – and it may not happen at once. You can keep adding, deleting and/or altering the 9-6-3 ideas you have collected.
6. Stay with the process – your vision will unfold! 

When you live from your vision you lead … it is a precious gift to the world. 

1. Faith is your belief in yourself.
2. Faith means ‘nothing or no-thing is missing’ in your life! Just as the sun will rise in the morning, you will experience your life. 
3. Holding steady to your faith involves loving yourself in concert with your Creator.
4. Faith is a travelling companion in living your extraordinary life. It travels better than its opposite - doubt.
5. When you are in faith you are living out of confidence.

Take an early morning, reflective afternoon or a quiet evening and consider your faith

• What is your faith in you? 
• What is your faith in your family and close friends?
• What is your faith in work? 

Simply ask about your faith in different (yet connected) elements for living your extraordinary life.

And be open to surprise especially recognizing with faith comes heartfelt leadership, leading, and being a leader. 

1. Gratitude expressed in thought or word is a whisper into the universe that has an effect beyond whatever you can realize today.
2. Continue to be grateful for what you have and what you attract into your life. 
3. The depth of your appreciation and its demonstration contribute to the fabric of your life and the communities in which you live.

1. Gratitude can be in a gesture of thanks so simple that its quietness reverberates around the workplace.
2. It can be in the hand you extend.
3. Gratitude is at the core of your personal life decisions. You decide what you get. Whether before or after the decision, be grateful.
4. Gratitude can be written into journals.
5. It can be thought about in the evening before going to sleep and in the morning before your feet touch the floor.

1. In moving from learning to knowing, and more importantly into knowable action, I am experiencing my fixity of purpose, definitiveness of vision, steadiness of faith, and depth of gratitude. 
2. I decided to lead. To co-create the well-living world, co-create well-living workplaces, and live my extraordinary life.
3. As you step into your "yes" … let’s hook up in spaces and places where we nurture our connections even more.
4. What the world needs is purposeful, visionary and grateful leaders.