Meaning gives you purpose, which is deeper than passion.
“If you configure your life so that what you are genuinely doing is aiming at the highest possible good, then the things that you need to survive, and to thrive, on a day-to-day basis, will deliver themselves to you.” – Sir JP
Powerful words. Truth with a meaning, matters. Having a clear mission and a strong WHY serves as a guiding force.
Without a WHY and meaning, along with higher goals to direct your path, you will be lost. You might be tossed around by challenges. Your lower self mind will get the best of you and you will GIVE IN and UP. Yet if you have goals (10x aims) driven by a divine meaning, you have a head start—and a solid foundation. You can endure. Embrace uncomfortableness. Overcome pain. Honor the spirit of Kaizen. Be a better YOU daily. You can withstand the negative part of your mind telling you to give up. You can play the L O N G game.
You can be an OVERCOMER!
As meaning transcends tragic comfort zones and helps you defeat mediocrity.
Meaning gives you purpose, which is deeper than passion.
Meaning helps you connect the dots telling you when something lines up.
Meaning helps you know when you are in the right place at the right time.
Meaning lets you know you are connected to your passion and divine purposes—something bigger than you or any one individual person.
Meaning makes suffering beautiful. So much so that I would go even further and say that suffering without meaning is useless, leading to depression and mental health issues. Your personal divine WHY driven by your highest aims is the most important aspect of your overall happiness and success.
Likewise, the same holds true for our beloved tech business success, including accomplishing very difficult things, or what we call BHAGS—> The highest possible good or a big hairy audacious goal. Whether it’s through innovative strategies or contributing to positive change, the goal remains the same: to make a positive impact and contribute to a better world. Just as Sir JP impresses upon us:
‘There’s a very, very, very interesting idea, here. It’s certainly one of the most profound ideas that I’ve ever encountered. The idea is that, if you configure your life so that what you are genuinely doing is aiming at the highest possible good, then the things that you need to survive and thrive on a day-to-day basis will deliver themselves to you. That’s a hypothesis, and it’s not some simple hypothesis. What it basically says is, if you dare to do the most difficult thing that you can conceptualize, your life will work out better than it will if you do anything else.’…….
…..‘Let’s say your aim is the highest possible aim. Well, that sets up the world around you. It organizes all of your perceptions, and it organizes what you see and what you don’t see; it organizes your emotions and motivations. So you organize yourself around that aim. Then what happens is that the day manifests itself as a set of challenges and problems, and if you solve them properly, then you stay on the pathway towards that aim. You can concentrate on the day. That way you get to have your cake and eat it, too, because you can point into the far distance and live in the day. It seems to me that that makes every moment of the day supercharged with meaning. If everything that you’re doing, every day, is related to the highest possible aim that you could conceptualize…Well, that’s the very definition of the meaning that would sustain your life.’
Or as today’s Hippie 4.0 BlessUP media refreshes and reminds us:
