I loved the reading "How Will You Measure Your Life" by Clay M. Christensen. He talked a lot about finding your life's purpose. He explained that when he was in school, he painfully set aside an hour a day to read, study, and ponder his life's purpose. It was really hard to set aside the hard studies of econometric to search for something that seems less profitable in the moment, but Elder Christensen made this promise to all the students at Harvard Business School, "I promise my students that if they take the time to figure out their life purpose, they’ll look back on it as the most important thing they discovered at HBS. If they don’t figure it out, they will just sail off without a rudder and get buffeted in the very rough seas of life. Clarity about their purpose will trump knowledge of activity-based costing, balanced scorecards, core competence, disruptive innovation, the four Ps, and the five forces." This is my main goal and drive this week: I have put together the beginnings of a personal constitution. At first I was doing it just to turn the assignment in, but after reading the chapter in "The Ministry of Business, I was sold on the effect that this could have on me if I took some time on it. So I will look over my personal constitution, revise it, and constantly add and change things as I see necessary. I will start out by spending 30 minutes a day on my purpose, and work into an hour a day of finding out what my purpose is in life. I will report back in a week to see what I have found, and to bump the time up from 30 minutes to an hour.
Wednesday, May 13, 2015
Priorities - 5/13/2015
I had a big reality check this week. I hadn't gone to the temple in two weeks. I had begun studying my scriptures late at night so I wasn't getting as much out of my studies. I was starting to get lazy with my studies. My homework was still getting done but I was just going through the motions and I wasn't getting much out of it. There were a few things that happened that helped me to realize that I was slowly headed downward, and so I decided to switch things up. "I will persist until I succeed." I'm doing so many things and time is slipping right through my fingers. In "A Journey to Personal Transformation," it explains how we have to be ready for the time when we are thrown into the desert. We have to be willing to put our nose to the grinder. As Og Mandino puts it, "When others cease their struggle, then mine will begin, and my harvest will be full."
I loved the reading "How Will You Measure Your Life" by Clay M. Christensen. He talked a lot about finding your life's purpose. He explained that when he was in school, he painfully set aside an hour a day to read, study, and ponder his life's purpose. It was really hard to set aside the hard studies of econometric to search for something that seems less profitable in the moment, but Elder Christensen made this promise to all the students at Harvard Business School, "I promise my students that if they take the time to figure out their life purpose, they’ll look back on it as the most important thing they discovered at HBS. If they don’t figure it out, they will just sail off without a rudder and get buffeted in the very rough seas of life. Clarity about their purpose will trump knowledge of activity-based costing, balanced scorecards, core competence, disruptive innovation, the four Ps, and the five forces." This is my main goal and drive this week: I have put together the beginnings of a personal constitution. At first I was doing it just to turn the assignment in, but after reading the chapter in "The Ministry of Business, I was sold on the effect that this could have on me if I took some time on it. So I will look over my personal constitution, revise it, and constantly add and change things as I see necessary. I will start out by spending 30 minutes a day on my purpose, and work into an hour a day of finding out what my purpose is in life. I will report back in a week to see what I have found, and to bump the time up from 30 minutes to an hour.
I loved the reading "How Will You Measure Your Life" by Clay M. Christensen. He talked a lot about finding your life's purpose. He explained that when he was in school, he painfully set aside an hour a day to read, study, and ponder his life's purpose. It was really hard to set aside the hard studies of econometric to search for something that seems less profitable in the moment, but Elder Christensen made this promise to all the students at Harvard Business School, "I promise my students that if they take the time to figure out their life purpose, they’ll look back on it as the most important thing they discovered at HBS. If they don’t figure it out, they will just sail off without a rudder and get buffeted in the very rough seas of life. Clarity about their purpose will trump knowledge of activity-based costing, balanced scorecards, core competence, disruptive innovation, the four Ps, and the five forces." This is my main goal and drive this week: I have put together the beginnings of a personal constitution. At first I was doing it just to turn the assignment in, but after reading the chapter in "The Ministry of Business, I was sold on the effect that this could have on me if I took some time on it. So I will look over my personal constitution, revise it, and constantly add and change things as I see necessary. I will start out by spending 30 minutes a day on my purpose, and work into an hour a day of finding out what my purpose is in life. I will report back in a week to see what I have found, and to bump the time up from 30 minutes to an hour.
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