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At a world stage and on live television, actor Will Smith slapped Chris Rock and preceeded in shouting expletives at him. It was an embarrassed and one of the lowest moments for the actor.
The condemnation for him was quick and widespread. Very few, if any condemned Chris Rock for his part. I do believe that there are lessons we can pick from that incident. Listen to this.
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The occupational hazard for being a human is failure. We will at any point in time find ourselves in self inflicted messes and failures.
When that happens, people can count us out and write our obituaries. They would be wrong. When Will Smith slapped Chris Rock, some said it was over for Will Smith. You know they were wrong, don't you? Listen to this.
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It is possible to swim in abundance but still feel so meaningless. It is possible to seemingly live in apparent lack in comparison to others but have a high level of meaning.
What's the difference? It's both in perspective and presence. We ignore so much around us thinking that What's outside of us is the answer. At times, meaning is already in our presence. Listen to this.
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There is an age old hack of injecting Meaning into our lives that works wonders. 💪🏻
Interestingly, we are so adept at ignoring what we have and go outside of our immediate environments to seek for meaning.
However, gratitude as an attitude can easily inject meaning in our lives. Listen to this.
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There has to be some balance between what we are doing at work and the rewards we are gaining from it. In between, there is meaning. Whenever there is an imbalance, meaning gets eroded.
To Inject meaning into life, we need to find tangible rewards in what we are doing. The worst thing in life is to work without rewards. Listen to this.
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If you are looking for meaning in life through work, woe to you if you have only one result that is motivating you--payment. There are several ways in which meaning can be injected into life.
One such potent way is through savouring the fruits of your labour, especially the transformative fruits. This means that you are enjoying the contribution that you are making. Here is a summary of the different types of results that accrue from your genuine work efforts.
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When we talk about injecting meaning into our lives, we are basically saying that there is a possibility to switch things in your life and start in a different and better setting. There are quite a number of ways that this can happen.
In the previous episode, we talked about the importance of results. One needs to understand that at times, in fact, most times, you might not be fully in control of the results of your work. One such a result is appreciation. Listen to this.
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One of the greatest punishments you can give anyone is to force them to work and deny them ownership of their work's transformative results.
Consequently, if you want to inject meaning into your life, you need to work and see and own the results. In this episode, we start talking about that part. Listen to this.
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It was Jim Rohn who said that a life not reviewed is really not worth living. We are quite adept at doing organisational reviews and job appraisals but really fall miserably short at reviewing personal lives.
Right in there could be the greatest answers in man's search for meaning. In this episode, let us look at some seven questions we can use to review our lives. Listen to this.
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A life of meaning is something that all humanity is interested in. In fact, it is something we are wired for. There are moments in life when we either feel we have no meaning or when we actually have no meaning at all.
One of the most potent ways to inject meaning back into our lives is through personal reviews. They are powerful enough to keep us on track. Listen to this.
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There are two major things that make us veer away from purpose and thereby end up with no meaningful life. One is lust and greed, and the other is sheer need to eke out a living.
To inject meaning in our lives therefore, we have to intentionally go through a restoration. Sadly, there are no outright restoration centres of purpose to speak about. In this episode, let's see a preview of the process of restoration to meaning.
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There are different ways to inject meaning in our lives. These have already been discussed in the previous episodes. When one lacks meaning in life, they will immediately feel that something is off.
Even though it might not occur immediately that it's lack of meaning, there's something we can do to rectify the situ. I call it "Restoration". Listen to this.
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When you lack meaning in your life, chances are that you may not be a person with responsibility on many fronts: the self, relationships, profession, your immediate environment or even a cause.
If you wanted to inject meaning into your life, one of the ways to do it is through being responsible. Here is a summary of the different ways you can be responsible and thereby inject meaning into life.
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As we grow up as young kids, we look forward to getting employed with so much eagerness. Invariably, quite a number of us do end up there. However, we soon realize the drudgery of employment because there is no meaning.
At some point in time, all we are doing is work so that we can get paid. Our hearts hate the jobs we are doing but we keep there for survival and sustenance. Something has got to give. Listen to this.
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At a great level, relationships are very instrumental in adding value to life. Some people have been preserved, blessed, inspired and given hope for tomorrow through relationships.
So whenever you find yourself or someone else feeling meaningless and purposeless in life, one of the obvious solutions would be to nurture a relationship or another. When we get invested in it, we might just have injected meaning into our lives. Listen to this.
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This goes to many young men and women and the rest who are 'unemployed'. It is a very crucial phase of life that can easily make people to feel useless and meaningless.
In that moment, the worst you can do is to behave exactly like the jobless one--sit at home and do nothing. To inject meaning into your life, it is important to take some responsibility. This is one area you can explore. Listen to this.
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I have been talking about injecting Meaning into our lives. It is something that we can do at any moment in our lives when we feel like there is no purpose.
One of the ways we can do that is to become responsible. There are different levels of responsibility. The first kind of responsibility is self responsibility. It has a way to inject meaning into our lives. Listen to this.
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Invariably, we find ourselves doing life ostensibly for survival. Consequently, we Invariably feel low and disconcerted about life because at the end of the day, it lacks meaning.
Fortunately, we can easily inject meaning in our lives at any moment we want. One of the ways to do that is through responsibility. This kind of responsibility I am talking about is a little different from what's obvious. Listen to this.
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If you compare an ant to a human being or a bee for that matter, you will find interesting things. Ants and bees are known for their discipline and responsibility, and yet they are not creatures that bother about their meaning in life.
The human though, when they lack meaning, they are desperate, disillusioned and dissatisfied with this life. One of the ways to inject meaning in life is to be a responsible human. Listen to this.
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I have laid a massive ground work on the subject of meaning in life. At the end of the day, it is only fair that we start discussing exactly how we can inject meaning into our lives.
The very fast and obvious way is to go through a re-birth. Frankly, this can happen several times in our metamorphosis in life. Let's find out more about this in the episode. Listen to this.
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Fortunately, there are quite a number of ways we can inject purpose in our lives. We have been brought up predominantly to veer away from meaning in life even though we are born with it.
Instead of approaching a new born with an aura of adventure and explore its possibilities, we Instead introduce it to already available templates of growth. This can be fixed. Listen to this.
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We can know we are living a meaningful life in different ways. We don't need a prophet or a scientist to tell us as much. We actually do have internal indicators that we tell us whether we are on or off.
However, there are some things in our lives that we can use to determine whether we are track on purpose or not. One of them is productivity. Listen to this.
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I caught myself saying that you do not need a prophet or a special man of God to tell you about your purpose. This information has already been communicated to your psyche, spirit and your very essence. You can know.
That being said, there is one obvious way you can determine that you have meaning in life. This is when you are productive...but it's not what you think. Listen to this.
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One of the biggest mistakes we make in employee recruitment is to select people largely based on competence and academic prowess. Over time, people with these two qualities are in their millions.
However, organisations still struggle with employee engagement. Here is how to know that whoever you have hired has engagement in their life, how to know they have meaning.
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The interesting thing is that there are people who have not officially gone through a process of injecting Meaning into their lives but they are already living it.
In fact, I have always seen people in the know of their purpose already before they take my courses. I want to talk about how you can know you already have meaning in your life. Listen to this.
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We can know when things are off in life. However, knowing what exactly the problem is is another ball game altogether. We have very many hints, symptoms and indications when things are off and when they are on course.
Perhaps one of the salient things that we seldom identify in our lives is the lack of meaning. That's why we fail to allocate some symptoms to this root problem. Here's a summary of four things that indicate lack of meaning in life.
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There are two general types of People. There are those who know what their life purpose is, and there are those who don't. Consequently, there are those who are living a life of meaning, and there are those who are not.
In the previous four episodes, I covered four ways you can know you might not have meaning in your life. Starting today and with this episode, let's cover how to know that someone has meaning in their lives. Listen to this.
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The human being is one of the most unique species in creation. You will never find a housefly or antelope or lion wondering about the meaning of life. The eagle in his magnificent flight and the whale in his mammoth and imposing stature perhaps never wondered about why they exist.
But the human does. All life long, we have hints within that tell us that there lacks meaning in our lives. Here is one hint from the many available. Listen to this.
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We get losts of feedback in our spirits about the quality of life we are leading. One way or another, if we lean into the feedback, we might benefit from the crucial need for course correction.
The thing is that all these types of feelings and hints might not mean anything to us unless we start looking at the impact of lack of meaning in life. Here's one way we can know that there is an indication of lack of meaning in our lives.
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Fortunately, it is easy and possible to know that your life lacks meaning. However, you have to have the consciousness of looking for meaning to realize what is happening to you.
We have been wired with several internal mechanisms both mentally and spiritually that will help us course-correct whenever we veer off tangent. At the end of the day, life must have meaning. Without meaning there is trouble. Here is one way you can know that meaning in your life is not there.
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I don't know about you, but at several moments in my life, I have had some bit of disquiet about my existence. There comes a time you stop all the traffic in your life and wonder what its meaning is in the first place.
This is not the famous mid-life crisis or quarter-life crisis. It is an enduring feeling in life whenever there is no meaning that there is something missing. Let's see how about that in this episode.
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Life is supposed to mean something to all of us. That meaning varies from one person to the next. Life is not about 'existing'. It's about living. The only way to really 'live' our lives is to add meaning into it.
In this new series, we shall dissect wnat this really means and then get into it. We shall look at several ways in which we can inject meaning into the life itself. Listen to this.
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Even after discovery of purpose we are still susceptible to feelings of disillusionment with the same self purpose. How many times have you seen visionaries kind of doubting the path they have taken?
Frankly, we cannot fully immunise ourselves against disillusionment. However, we can learn several reasons why that can happen ans thereby cushion ourselves against it. Here is a summary of six reasons for disillusionment. Listen to this.
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There are two types of disillusionment in general. First, when we are living outside of purpose, it is easy to get disillusioned. The remedy is to get purpose clarity.
Second, even with purpose clarity, it is easy to get disillusioned because purpose deployment is a journey, and not a destination. Here is one reason you could be disillusioned in your purpose pursuit.
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At times, those who have discovered their purpose will face disillusionment at some points. This can be brought about my different reasons. One of them is impatience.
Depending on the context, impatience can either be good or bad. However, when it's the cause of disillusionment, we need it handled. Here are four ways to do it.
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Our expectations will always rule our outcomes. However, when we are impatient with the maturity of our expectations, it becomes so easy for us to get bogged down with purpose disillusionment.
There is no doubt that there are probably very many reasons why a visionary or a person of purpose will feel disillusioned in life. Impatience could be just one of it. Listen to this.
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You know this already. When we are not in our right minds, we make lousy decisions. Another thing that we do a lot is to make wrong estimates about the future and about our prospects of success.
At times, you might be disillusioned in your purpose pursuit because you are exhausted. You are tired. Probably, you wouldn't be feeling the same thing if you rested and relaxed. Listen to this.
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Let's face it, when we do not feel appreciated especially with our purpose pursuit, we tend to get disillusioned about it. That's just but one way of different facets of disillusionment that we might face.
It's therefore important for us to look for different ways in which we shall deal with the lack of appreciation in our journey of purpose. Here are just a few ways you can find respite. Listen to this.
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We thrive on good vibes, support, encouragement and feeling we are needed. The opposite if all these can easily cause us to the disillusioned about our purpose pursuit.
We always want to feel appreciated as if what we are doing is making sense. When we are not so often appreciated, there is a problem that we will have to deal with. The question is: how do we approach the prospect of not being appreciated? Listen to this.
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The human being can thrive and do wonders when they realise that others consider them valuable and needed. At times, you don’t need a cloud or a multitudes, but just one person who thinks you are special and you are needed.
The opposite can be devastating and disillusion inducing. We are talking in these episodes about the reasons why we get disillusionment in our purpose. Here is one more possible reason. Listen to this.
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All of us start our purpose pursuits from incompetent levels. No one started as a virtuoso. There in lies one of the possibilities of facing disillusionment in the journey of purpose. How exactly does that work?
In the episode yesterday, I introduced this point. Today, i go further and deeper to reveal how our Immaturity might lead us to feel disillusioned down the road on purpose pursuit. Listen to this.
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When on Purpose pursuit, you will at some point in time face disillusionment for one reason or another. It is kind of inevitable. This is not a bad thing necessarily, it is just how life is.
The goal of talking about these things is to arm you beforehand to anticipate and know how to handle it. A variant of disillusionment could actually indicate that probably we are immature. Listen to this.
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There are two types of disillusionment in life. The first one is that which results from lack of purpose. No mater how much you accumulate, without purpose, there will aways be the disillusionment.
The cure is to get purpose, and that is in itself not a vaccine against disillusionment. The very reason that you are pursuing a cause will one way or another usher you to a variant of disillusionment. Listen to this.
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As long as you are alive and even AFTER you have unearthed hour passion and your purpose, you will face some moments of disappointment and disillusionment especially concerning THAT pursuit.
Knowing this will help you to stop looking for purpose ostensibly so you can circumnavigate dark moments in life. Let's learn further about this in this new episode.
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Life gives us many challenges regardless of our status in society. Those who have discovered their purpose are not any exempt from feeling disillusioned about their pursuits.
In this new series, we seek to go deeper into the relationship between a visionary and their disillusionment. We will discover that finding one's purpose is not an insulation against it. Listen to this.
