TAKE THE LEAP ! PURPOSE LAB

Sonia Di Maulo called this course Take the Leap. Why? It came from a book she wrote, The Apple in the Orchard. It was endorsed by Ken Blanchard, who wrote:

"Opportunities for growth and learning are all around you - so take the leap, and grow!"

1. Cultivate your decision-making/guiding principles. 

GOAL: Ground ourselves in purpose and prosperity.

A tree with strong roots laughs at storms. Malay Proverb

2. Discover and embrace your superpowers.

We have all Via character strengths. 

They are from 6 virtues:

WISDOM - creativity, curiosity, judgement, love of learning, perspective

COURAGE - bravery, perserverance, honesty, zest

HUMANITY - love, kindness, social intelligence

JUSTICE - teamwork, fairness, leadership

TEMPERANCE - forgiveness, humility, prudence, self-regulation

TRANSENDANCE - appreciation of beauty/excellence, hope, gratitude, humour, spirituality

My top 5 are:

Fairness

Appreciation of Beauty/Excellence

Honesty

Kindness

Love of Learning

3. Explore your Ikigai (Passions and Purpose)

It's a guide, like a North Star, and incredible things start to fall into place. You naturally reframe your focus and energy; doors begin to open you didn't even know existed.  

It supports our one undeniable calling...to be ourselves. 

Your ikigai/purpose, once clear, become core to your essence, your being and your doing.

Understanding the ikigai helps us say yes to the right things and no to the wrong things.

David E. Marlow The Ikigai Guy (LinkedIn)

The visual of ikigai is a beautiful example of a Venn diagram. 

What do you love? What are you good at? What can you get paid for? What the world needs?

What is your passion (energy)? What is your mission (aim)? What is your profession (career)? What is your vocation (calling)?

Your ikigai is in the middle, connecting all these things.

"But there is no reliable shortcut to action. In fact, we may come to recognize that the conversation is the action. Growing in wisdom and compassion is the work. Every thing else is just testing stuff out."

Michelle Holliday

Leap from the comfortable to the uncomfortable.

4. Celebrate your Past and Present, and Ground your Future (Growth Model)

"It doesn't matter how slow you go, as long as you don't stop." Confucius

"Each person leaves a legacy -- a single, small piece of themselves, which makes richer each individual life and the collective life of humanity as a whole. " - John Nichols

Tell and share! Living fully every day! Take time to experience ourselves. What makes us happy? What brings us joy?

We are a constant ripple effect.

5. Breathe life in to your living legacy.

You don't become a legend by living in your comfort zone. Start writing your story.

Three parts:

- How you experience yourself, every minute, every hour, every day. 

- How people experience you every minute, every hour, every day. (Does it align with your guiding principles? Are you using your strengths in presenting your authentic self?)

- The benefits you are leaving for yourself and others when you are not there.

Don't worry if your first thought s not your best thought. Write them down anyways!

Yearly living legacy is a compass. It give you a heading. Write something, not necessarily that you think you can achieve, but inspires you, scares you, engages you.

Look for a focus point, not necessarily an end point. 

e.g.  Sonia's yearly legacy

2019 To help 100 people discover, create, embrace, and breathe life into their living legacies.

2020 To help 1000 people discover, create, embrace, and breathe life into their living legacies.

2021 Active 100,000 emerging leaders to discover, create, embrace and breath life into their living legacies by 2025.

Workbook: 

Specific

Measurable

Achievable

Relevant

Time-bound

SMART 1 year living legacy

WRITE THE LIVING LEGACY YOU HAVE IN MIND (5 minutes)

I would like to eliminate the physical clutter around me, and make room and time to evaluate my guiding principles, powers, passions and purpose. I would like to have a house that has a place for everything, and space for another. I would like to have the readiness to spend available time with my daughter and friends, because I have an orderly life with some advance preparations. I would like to continue to have guarded precious time alone with myself, to ski, and hike, and read, and write, and dream. I would like to invest my money wisely in preparation of leaving my job in 5 years, and prepare my resume and 5 year plan to my next phase of life. I want to have my affairs in order so that my death would be planned to minimized the impact on my family when the time comes. I would like to continue to find a common ground with my daughter so that when I am gone, she has a living legacy to admire and follow, as she chooses.

Where do I want to end up on January 31, 2023? 

I will organize each room to have its own items with room to spare in the storage areas I already have (so no room to expand, only to contract) and only have 2 boxes of "craft project items" stored, with the rest recycled or given away or garbaged if need be. I would like to start reorganizing my garden with priority to prepare for next year's growing season, repair the shed and deck, and install a railing for my neighbour. I am enrolled and will participate in a mentorship year. I will update my CV and be ready to submit it to a I will finish my daughter's baby book and the year she was 15, and prepare for the year she was 16). 

Draw your map (vision board?)

Use your own language! "Certified Reinvention Practitioner" "Soul Doctor"

What is my dream? 

Financial freedom

Time to reflect

Healthy balanced life

Advocacy for others for the same

Who do I want to be?

Enough for myself

In community with others

Connected mother

Ready friend

 What do I need to do for myself?

Less stuff

More efficiency

Better habits

 What are my tools? 

Knowledge

Supportive friends

Some financial security

How can I monetize my skills?

Not sure

What is my attitude? 

Hopeful

Tends to the dark ( I blame melancholy but acknowledge it)

Tends to resist (I blame introversion but accept it)

What is my perspective? What are my convictions?

Who are my top five people? Who knows me, and supports me? Who are my "mastermind" group?

Adle, Cindy, Nathan, Holly, Aviva

First Published January 31st 2022

Finally finished August 31st 2022!