381. Why Detachment Is One of The Greatest Tools of Productivity

Productivity in life is a source of pride, fulfillment, and joy. Anything else is fleeting and bound to fade away eventually. That is why we have to figure out one of the best ways that we can be the most productive people on earth.

I can say that it is to "die daily". There are several ways that this can be done. Take the case of pruning. It is an example of death so that life can emanate and even live better than before.

One of the ways of dying daily is to practice detachment. When you are detached, you are carefree of the consequences, most probably because you have already faced them. Listen to this.

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380. The Most Potent Way of Being The Most Productive Person On Earth

If productivity is one of the biggest reasons we are alive, and it is, what would be the best way to make us productive? The answer is simple. We have to "die daily".

It sounds harsh and weird but it is true. One of the things we have to do is to make sure that the object of our focus, that is our core work, is what we were meant to do in the first place.

In other words, we can be "successful" in many things, but at the end of the day, we might not have led an effective life. An effective life has to be a productive life in the right things. Listen to this.

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378. The 7 Crucial Things To Do When Misunderstood As You Pursue Your Purpose

When you are misunderstood as a visionary, you could be easily discouraged and thrown off balance. In the worst-case scenarios, people give up the vision so that they can fit in and conform to society.

We have to understand that from the get-go, the thing you are passionate about as a visionary is not necessarily going to be generally accepted. At times, it is against the status quo of the day.

When people feel that their status quo has been ruffled, they get so defensive to protect their turf. The question is, what are you going to do when you are misunderstood? The answers are summarized in this episode. Check it out

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379. Introduction to Dying Daily, The SI Unit of Purposeful Productivity

I do believe that the main reason why we are existing is so that we can be productive. We do this through work. We have to answer two major questions:

"Where was I called to be productive?" In other words, how have I been wired so that whatever I do is what I am not only gifted at, but also what I have lots of passion at?

After answering that question, we are left with one more crucial question to answer. "How best can I be productive at this?"

That is the question that we need to take a look at in the next several episodes. Stay tuned.

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377. The Importance of A Mastermind When You Are Being Misunderstood as A Visionary

According to Napoleon Hill, “No two minds ever come together without, thereby, creating a third, invisible, intangible force which may be likened to a third mind.”

The more reason you need to mastermind when you are misunderstood as a visionary. There will be one or two people on the face of the universe who are as passionate as you are about ideas.

This could be one of the best ways to make sure that you leverage other people's brains, efforts, and passion in order to succeed with your vision, especially when you have been misunderstood by friends and loved ones. Listen to this.

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376. To Overcome Misunderstanding of Your Vision by Loved ones, Maintain Your Routine

The word "disruption" is being thrown around a lot. The fact of the matter is that nobody wants to be disrupted in life, at least in the way they see their certainty in life working. People want to be sure that what works remains working.

As a visionary, you might be disrupted when you want to do something totally different from the widely accepted norm, different from the status quo. What do you do?

The lifeblood of your vision is in the actions that you take daily, without fail. Although you see no improvement, that is where the magic is. When you are misunderstood, do not break your routine. Listen to this.

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375. Why Celebrating Your Difference is Critical In Giving Respite When Misunderstood As a Visionary

So what do you do when you are constantly misunderstood by your friends and loved ones because you are pursuing or want to pursue a totally different angle in life from that which is widely accepted by the status quo?

We are all different in our own unique ways. Perhaps the greatest misfortune in life is when we want to fit and conform more than we want to stand out and be distinct and celebrate our difference and uniqueness.

Invariably, it never ends well when you conform. This is what you need to do when you are misunderstood by friends and loved ones because you are pursuing a different vision. Listen in.

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374. Why 'Uncles' Are Crucial in Life When A Visionary Is Misunderstood By Friends and Loved Ones

It could be impossible for the whole wide world to turn against you as a visionary. If you look carefully there is always someone out there who understands you.

As a visionary, one of the prices you will have to pay is being isolated, being alone, and being misunderstood. Why? Because your vision will invariably go against the grain and the status quo of the day.

If you are not careful, that vision can easily be aborted. What do you do? You need to find an "uncle" that you can talk to and see what kind of support or intercession that you can receive. Listen to this.

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373. Why Clarifying Your Vision or Purpose is Critical When You are Misunderstood in Your Purpose Pursuit

As I have said in these episodes, you cannot expect everyone to believe your vision, or purpose, or passion. For the most part, people believe it when they see it.

Not so for the visionary. The visionary believes it before they can see it. As you can see, there is a discrepancy between what the visionary sees and what the rest of the people see.

You will be misunderstood over and over again before that vision can become a reality. This is why it is important to clarify your vision once more when you are misunderstood. Listen to this.

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372. Why Talking To God Helps The Visionary When Misunderstood By Friends And Loved Ones

Perhaps you have an idea or a vision or some passionate pursuit that you are engaged in. You pretty much wanted your closest friends and loved ones to not only understand you, but you also banked on their support.

Unfortunately for you, they do not see things the way you see, they do not feel what you feel. In fact, what you are trying to do is way outside of the norm, the known, the understood, and the experienced.

You, therefore, find yourself alone and disillusioned, feeling like you are doubting yourself and you want to give up. Here is what you can do.

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371. The 5 Things We Must Do As A Society When We Misunderstand Our Visionaries

As a society, we are increasingly grappling with change. It is scary to change. When you have always known how things are supposed to operate and all of a sudden someone you care about wants to do it differently, you get scared at times.

And this is happening in areas that are interesting in life, such as careers, meaning, and purpose. Increasingly, our friends and loved ones are seeking to move away from the status quo, from that which we have always known to work, and they are moving towards the untried, the unproven and the untested

This is how we can respond. Listen in.

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370. Four Ways Visionaries Get Affected When Misunderstood by Friends and Loved Ones

Let's face it. No one is obligated to believe your vision. However, when you have persevered enough and seen the vision bring fruits or it becomes a reality, everyone wants to jump on the bandwagon of belief.

The fact is that everything is created at least twice. The first creation is when you get the vision, the idea, the purpose, or the passion to pursue it. At that moment, there is no evidence that it will work.

In fact, at that moment, it tends to go against the grain, against the popular status quo. There are at least four ways that a visionary will be affected when they are misunderstood by friends and loved ones as they pursue their vision. Listen in.

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369. Why An Overwhelm is Not Real At Times When A Visionary is Misunderstood by Loved Ones

When a visionary is misunderstood by friends and loved ones, for the most part, it will be because they are taking a stand that is different from what the status quo offers.

People will not see what you see, feel what you feel, and hear what you hear. That should be what you and I have to understand from the get-go.

At times we get it wrong when we think that people will have the same passion as we do with our purpose and our pursuit. When they don't, it affects the visionary in different negative ways. this is one of them. Listen in.

 

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368. This is The Biggest Way Visionaries Suffer When They Are Misunderstood by Loved Ones

We all go through pain in our lives at one point or another. Perhaps the greatest pain that we suffer is not physical pain, it is the pain in our souls that is brought about by being misunderstood by the people that we expected to understand.

Many times a visionary downloads something out of this world, and just the fact that it doesn't fit in the status quo of the day, we vilify them and make them go through lots of inner turmoil.

This is one of the greatest pains that a visionary can ever go through. It is one of the prices they pay for their vision, to choose between the vision and the family, the vision, and friends. Listen to this.

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367. Why It is Important To Be Believed As a Visionary

As a visionary or someone who is hot on the heels of purpose pursuit, make no mistake about it, you will be misunderstood. No one is obligated to believe you. No one.

So when you are misunderstood, you will go through several things. It is very important for your friends and loved ones to come alongside and help you, support you and shield you, providing a strong belief in what you do.

But what happens when they don't? And believe me, they won't at some point in time. This is when you will discover that blood is not necessarily thicker than water. Listen to this.

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366. The Three Types of Visionaries That Are Always Misunderstood, but We Need Them

A Jesus-type of visionary will always be misunderstood and for good reasons. They are unlike anyone we have seen. They take on massive "impossible" projects.

In our world, we can equate this kind of visionary to an Alexandar The Great, a Julius Ceasar, a Napoleon, a Shaka Zulu, an Abraham Lincoln, or even to some extent, a John F Kennedy or a Martin Luther King Jnr.

One can even say an Elon Musk or a Steve Jobs exemplifies this kind of visionary. It is easy to see how many of these people were misunderstood, in fact, many of them were killed. Let's see what to do with this kind of visionary.

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365. This Is The Dangerous Type of A Visionary To Cross

We always misunderstand visionaries among us. This is in families, classrooms, office blocks and community. They see what we don't. They are motivated unlike we are.

So we vilify them, judge them, laugh at them, and so on because we want them to operate in life with total respect to the status quo.

Unfortunately for us, there is one type of visionary that does not play games with their vision. If you stood up against them and their purpose, you will become the victim, unlike the visionary that we saw yesterday. Listen to this.

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364. The 'Joseph-Type' Of Visionary That is Always Misunderstood

Joseph is the typically gifted visionary with a heart to save multitudes, but so docile to defend themselves. We have such kinds of visionaries in our lives today.

The worst thing you can do as someone who is close to a visionary is to misunderstand their passion and their spirit. Every day, such a one gets misunderstood all over the world. If you are a "Joseph-Type" of visionary, you find that the greatest thing you need is support.

Your vision is so clear and yet for it, you get vilified, even threatened with death itself. Let's listen to what happens to a Joseph Type of visionary.

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363. 7 Ways Society Expresses Their Misunderstanding of Visionaries

There are at least 7 ways in which we show our great misunderstanding of some of the visionaries on earth. These are the round pegs in square holes, the misfits, and the trouble makers as Steve Jobs an Apple called them.

They are found in our homes, our classrooms, our workplaces, and our politics. They are found in our religions and sports arenas. They stick up like a sore thumb against the status quo.

When we are uncomfortable with them, we get scared and we vilify them. Find out how that happens here.

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362. Two More Ways We Show Our Misunderstanding of Visionaries In our Families and Society

There was an astronomer or a scientist who at the time of popular belief that the world was flat, came up with his findings that the earth was indeed round.

He was vilified, misunderstood, and excommunicated. He was forced to recant his sayings that were termed as heresies. Later on, the world proved that he was right, and it was Pope John Paul the second that asked for forgiveness on behalf of the church about that.

That's the same thing we do with some visionaries today. When they do not fit our status quo we misunderstand them. Here are two more ways in which we do that. Listen to this.

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361. How We Try To Stop Visionaries Because We Misunderstand Their Passion and Purpose

At times, unbeknown to us, we are living with geniuses. However, we are so hell-bent on making them fit in instead of letting them flourish and stand out.

We want them to toe the line, to conform, to be normal. To do what everyone else does on a daily basis. And so we misunderstand their passion, commitment, and drive. We get scared of their crazy ideas.

We ask them where the money will come from and we tell them to go get a real job just like anyone else would do. In this episode, we look at two more ways that we vilify these visionaries. Listen to this.

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359. The Unfortunate Scenario Where Visionaries Are Misunderstood By Their Own Kith and Kin

One of the greatest enemies in my work is the status quo. The other one of course is ignorance. These two coming together have killed dreams of different visionaries the world over.

Day in and out, these visionaries are misunderstood because we feel like they do not toe the line.

They are not like us. Such weird people can be found in our houses, schools, and office blocks. Daily, we have no idea what we are doing to stop them because we do not see what they see. Listen to this.

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360. How We Judge The Dreamers of Our Day and Kill Their Dreams. Unfortunate

"Here is to the crazy ones, the misfits and the rebels" That was Apple way back in 1997. They had a point. Today, in our own backyards, in our own homes, classrooms, and office blocks, there are misfits that are being vilified.

We do not understand their passion and their purpose. We do not understand their commitment, vision, and ideas. So we want to stop them dead in their tracks. In this episode, we look at the first two ways that we stop them. Stay tuned.

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358. Nine Reasons Why There is No Profit In Your Purpose Pursuit

There are several reasons why in your pursuit of passion or purpose, you are not earning enough. Probably you have just started or you have been at it for ages but there are only trickles to show for it.

Some of the reasons why that is the case are covered in the 8 episodes prior and this one just summarizes all of them into one episode. For the most part, people would rather take a job than pursue their purpose because of the different dynamics in monetization.

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357. Why Taking For Granted What You Already Have is Detrimental to Monetizing Your Purpose

They say that a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. Quite instructive. I normally poke holes in some of these nuggets. For example, what if the bird in the hand is lame, or has a defect?

Will it still be worth two in the bush? Well, that will depend. In pursuing our purpose, we soon enough become weird in the eyes of our friends and loved ones. The greatest question they would be asking is: Why is there no money in your purpose pursuit?

In this episode, we look at one more reason why that is the case.

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356. This is Perhaps The Biggest Reason Why There is No Profit in Purpose Pursuit

When someone is told, "Go get yourself a real job", chances are that that someone was pursuing something of passion or purpose. Now, a "real" job has some guarantees.

You know that you will earn X amount of money consistently in a certain period. That gives you certainty. You know that your bills of survival will be covered without trouble and as promised.

Not so with Purpose pursuit. As much as there are misconceptions in purpose pursuit monetization, chances are that you are the one shooting yourself in the foot for not monetizing it. This is one way that happens.

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355. Why We Do Not Have Profit in Purpose Pursuit - The Case For Tooting Own Horn

There could be basic fundamentals that are not being followed whenever something is not working. Also, the timing could not be right, probably, when something is not working.

Whatever the case, we need to make sure that the blame is not on us. When it comes to purpose pursuit, we have to answer the question that is age-old, "Why is there no profit in my purpose pursuit?"

Why is it that people of purpose more often than not are always told, "Go get a real job"? Isn't the pursuit of purpose a real job? Let's find out here why there is no profit in your purpose pursuit.

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354. This is Exactly Why We Should No Meddle But Be Faithful With Our Purpose Pursuit

Why is there no profit from my purpose pursuit? That's a question very many people grapple with. It is probably the same question asked by a businessman after years of trying. Or a farmer, or a graduate looking for a job?

There are many reasons out there why this is happening. Of course, some of the factors would be beyond your capacity to handle, but some of these factors are self-inflicted.

In this episode, we take one more look at this topic and discuss one major reason why there is no profit in your purpose pursuit. It is the simple things that make a big difference. This is one of them. Listen to this.

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353. The Curious Case of Not Leveraging A Limelight. How We Fail To Profit From Purpose Pursuit

Most of the reasons why there is no profit in purpose pursuit are because of either the ineptitude or the ignorance of the visionary. For the most part, it is because the visionary lacks the intentionality to do what they must in order to earn.

The truth of the matter is that there could be people in the world who would pay for that purpose, that passion, that gift, or that talent. But as long as the visionary will not have the fortitude to look for the profit, it shall not come.

Here is one major reason why there is no profit in your purpose pursuit.

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