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Selflessness is always going to be connected to purpose. Even beyond selflessness that sees other people benefiting from our passion, there is the interconnectedness of life.
Our purpose is not just ours. It fits into a grander ultimate purpose that only the Divine knows and orchestrates. So ultimately, we don't really own anything, at least technically. That's why our purpose pursuit needs the hand of the Divine. Listen to this.
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God is the one who put natural laws in place. To live a natural life is not sin. To ignore natural laws, systems, order and principles in seeking the supernatural daily is a bit off. Even God himself, in sending Jesus was obeying the natural laws he set up.
But there will be moments where we will need miracles to operate in our purpose pursuit. There is no question about that. What we need to learn is how we can balance between pursuit of miracles and application of natural laws.
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God is the one who put natural laws in place. To live a natural life is not sin. To ignore natural laws, systems, order and principles in seeking the supernatural daily is a bit off. Even God himself, in sending Jesus was obeying the natural laws he set up.
Joseph in delivery of Egypt and the known world at that time did not use a miracle to do it. David slaying Goliath was not miraculous. It was routine. That being said, there is still space and validity for miracles in our purpose pursuits. Listen to this.
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We live in the realm of time. We are limited. We have boundaries. However, there is so much abundance within the confines of our limits that people have built empires. In our daily purpose pursuits the limitations and crises in our lives can be so great that we will need a miracle.
But is the miracle the mainstay of life? Should we daily be seeking the miraculous or should we use the possibilities within our daily limits to do life? Listen to this.
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In today's world where there is increased screen time for our children, something must be done to make the most of it. As aptly said by someone, screens are the chewing gum of the eyes and brains.
Therefore, my guest who is a Co founder at Mindset coders has developed an idea of making children producers of screen time and not just consumers. She is helping children develop a problem solving mindset through her incredible startup.
I sat down with Ms. Valentine Masicha to talk about her work and I was blessed. Have a listen please.
NB. There is a bit of noise in the background, my apologies.
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In today's world where there is increased screen time for our children, something must be done to make the most of it. As aptly said by someone, screens are the chewing gum of the eyes and brains.
Therefore, my guest who is a Co founder at Mindset coders has developed an idea of making children producers of screen time and not just consumers. She is helping children develop a problem solving mindset through her incredible startup.
I sat down with Ms. Valentine Masicha to talk about her work and I was blessed. Have a listen please.
NB. There is a bit of noise in the background, my apologies.
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Today is World Intellectual Property Day. To celebrate this day, I decided to have a conversation with a man who is well versed in the IP world. We had a wonderful chat and by that end of it, I was sure that the man is an incredible brain trust to us.
There is so much that we all need to learn about IP. For instance, I learnt that as long as you have a mind/a brain, you are a walking practitioner of Intellectual Property. This special conversation opened my eyes unlike nothing ever in that world. You want to listen to this.
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The subject of miracles elicits so much attention from spiritual and religious people alike. In fact, very few humans would show little excitement about a miracle. Very few would shun being recipients of some.
Believe it or not, there is a place for miracles in our purpose pursuits, most definitely. In this new series, I want to offer a bit of balance between pursuit of miracles and the effective use of natural laws and principles. We begin here. Listen to this.
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Minimalism is becoming an increasing phenomenon in life. There are clusters of people who believe that there is so much wastage in life with our extravagant lives. It turns out that the same can be said of purpose pursuit.
That if we attempted to pursue all that we are capable of, we end up wasting our lives and efforts in ventures that remain unfinished. That's why we need to be productive using a minimalist approach. Here is a seven step process to it.
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We all know this: we cannot do everything that we are capable of at once. We could attempt and we could move a few inches but we will not be effective at all.
That's why we have to be minimalist in our approach. This means that we will choose to let go of some legitimate pursuits so that we can be sharp with our purpose pursuit. Hiring and outsourcing then becomes a great tool. Listen to this.
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When you send a delegation somewhere, it means you have trusted them so much that you can entrust them with a responsibility that matters to you. They help you and you are released to so other things.
The art of delegation is something that we all must learn to work with because we cannot do everything. It is impossible. If we try to do many things are once we are not effective. That's why we should be minimalist in our approach. Listen to this.
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In a world where the most distracted generation since creation lives, one needs to be circumspect in their actions so that they can stay sharp and on purpose with their life pursuits.
Even before we face distractions, we are already spoilt for choice within ourselves to pursue many valid options. That's why we resort to minimalism in our approach. If we will make it, then we will do well to learn to prioritize heavily. Listen to this.
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First, if we want to be sharp in our productivity and put purpose pursuit, we have to be minimalist. There are just too many legitimate things to do with our lives that if we tried to do them all, we burn out or burn our fingers.
So what do we do? We acknowledge that we are spoilt for choice, generate a list of all our choices then commit the choices daily to the subconscious. At the same time, we pursue what matters now. Listen to this.
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When we have so many valid things to do and less time, the answer is to be minimalist and focused. This helps us remain sharp and productive with our purpose pursuit.
The first thing we do is to acknowledge that there are many valid things that need our attention. The next thing to do is to enumerate all these things that need our attention... listen to this.
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For those who think that passion is overrated, there is something to ponder on from this conversation. Jamila is doing an amazing job with her passion in equipping women to make a livelihood in male dominated disciplines. It's incredible.
She shared with me in the conversation how it all begun, how it is going and what the future holds for her and hundreds of the women that have been influenced by her work.
When organizations such as MTN Uganda take note and want to contribute to your passion, you know you are onto something. Listen to this conversation and be inspired.
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As explained in the previous episode, a minimalist approach to life helps people to focus on their productivity. It is true that you can do many things very Well but that approach doesn't deepen you and doesn't make you sharp in your pursuit.
The answer is to painfully cut off some things so that you can focus on what really matters. That's minimalism. How exactly do we get that done?
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We live in a mightily distracted world. The moment our eyelids pop open, we are at the mercies of distractions and shiny objects if we are indisciplined. But that's just half of it. Within us, there are many 'good possibilities' that we can focus on.
We are either multi talented or we are having many valid ideas. How do we become sharp in our purpose pursuit given this background? Listen to this.
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He is the founder of CMS Africa, an organization that helps african developers build tools and solutions to help businesses and individuals to thrive. (http://Cmsafrica.org)
He is also the founder of Koamedia, an outfit that is a full range design agency dealing with brand and web development, animation and business videos, apps creation and more. (Koamedia.co.ke).
I had the privilege to talk to Oduor Jagero over the phone about matters related to online businesses.
In this day and age where the internet life online is being monetized, we need an African touch to it. Oduor and his friends have been curating different online courses teaching people in Africa how to make the most of the internet.
This was a good conversation and I am thrilled to share it with you. Enjoy
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The most positively distracting thing with creative and productive people is the conundrum of having so many legitimate ideas to pursue. This can be a distraction in different takes, most especially the fact that you don't have 200 years to live.
Therefore, we must do something about this immediately. At times, what we must do is as painful as letting a good idea go so we can focus on being integral in our purpose pursuit. Listen to this.
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Our strengths can easily become our weaknesses at some interesting takes. One of this is when we want to do all that we can do in our different passions, gifts and talents.
We do not have 200 years to do everything that we are capable of doing or everything that we are passionate about. That's why we have to choose to be effective. This is done by being single-minded. Listen to this.
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At different times, seasons and contexts, we need to take appropriate action in our purpose pursuit. Taking action is one of the most important aspects of purpose pursuit.
However , we have to be aware of just what kind of action is needed at what point in time. Whatever the case, the most paramount thing we need to do is to move in our purpose pursuit. Here is a summary of the top seven actions to take.
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Our purpose is directly linked to our productivity. Our productivity stemming from our purpose is directly linked to our meaning and our revitalization.
As such, there are people who are healthy, joyous and excited about life. You can easily trace that aura to their purpose and to their productivity. But then we have those who are bored to death with life. What's the difference? Listen to this.
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Different seasons, different times and different contexts in life demand different responses from us. In our purpose pursuit, we will have to take different types of action depending on the occasion.
One of those actions deals with stopping other types of actions from taking place in our lives. This is what we call "Burning the ships". It's a war concept used by a general centuries back. I'm sure we can learn from this. Listen in.
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I know we are not human doings, we are human beings. Even so, there is a very strong correlation between what we do and who we are. What we do can create who we are, or at least calibrate us one way or another.
That's why taking action is more than critical in our purpose pursuits. This kind of action I am taking about today is one of the most potent of it all . I don't think there is any successful organization worth it's salt that doesn't so it. Listen to this.
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People doing exceptional stuff are obviously organized. There is no way you are waking up one day and you are very successful by being disenchanted and disorganized. No way.
I have been talking about the different contexts in which we need to take action as we pursue our purpose. In our journeys, we will realize the incessant need to be organized. Listen to this.
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As we are on the road to our purpose pursuit, there is only one thing that we must be alert about -- taking action towards our goals. There are different contexts that we will face that will demand different types of action to take.
At times, we will need to take action alone and at other times, we will need to join forces with men and women of like passion. That's why it is important to connect over a common goal. Listen to this.
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There is no one who did something exceptional without always having to home in on their skills, talents and treasures and made them better. That would be a very rare case.
As such, research should always be a mainstay in our purpose pursuit. The gifts, talents and even our purpose will always come to us in the form of seeds. They are not fully formed. In taking action in our purpose pursuit, research becomes paramount.
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No one is exempt from some things in life and in our purpose pursuit. As long as we are humans, one of the things that we will suffer even in our purpose pursuit is fear.
I know of no one that has never been afraid at one instance in life or another. Even a new baby is at least afraid of noise as well as falling. But fear has the capacity to paralyze us. What do we do when afraid? Listen to this.
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We err when we overanalyze things. It's a joke in Africa that we are fond of setting up committees to look into things that another committee was set up to look into something else.
The sickening thing is that this is not a joke...it happens. However, at the individual level, when it comes to purpose, we tend to want to gather ALL the information we can before we launch. It doesn't work that way. Action is needed with the scantest information you have. Listen to this.
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I had a great opportunity to chat up Akua Nyame-Mensa who is currently based in Ghana about her passion in coaching and equipping leaders. Akua works with founders, small business owners, and entrepreneurs who have a million balls up in the air, and are utterly overwhelmed by the thought of any (or all) balls dropping.
Her work is to help them clarify where they should focus their time and energy each day. Akua has lived, worked and studied in many countries of the world including Ghana, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Tunisia and the United States of America.
She is well knowledgeable on her subject matter of productivity and I am sure you will learn how to manage yours just listening to her in this conversation.
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Humans are interesting. On one hand, we have no problem taking action. Every waking day, there are people on the streets running helter skelter trying to either survive or eke out a living.
However, when it comes to clarification of purpose, people hold back. They want full information from all angles before they could move towards their purpose. Unfortunately, purpose seldom operates that way. Listen to this.
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There was a research done in 23 countries over 7 years. A total of 197'000 people were studied. The findings were so powerful that the leader of this research team, Jay Niblick, published a book buoyed by the findings.
The book is called "What's Your Genius?". He found a very strong correlation between purpose and productivity. The people that were performing above the level of excellence had two unique traits in them ðŸŽ. Listen to this.
