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It is only logical that we would be passionately connected and attached the things we love, the things that we have spent considerable time creating.
This attachment can easily be explained and I understand that. However, attachment has a way of locking us up in one place so much so that we are not released to be creative in other areas. Listen to this introduction to the topic.
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When Corona virus was wasting away lives and locking up entire countries, people were forced to do something about it. One of such a person was Professor Patrick Ogwan (Check out his interview on episodes #901 and #902).
I give here a summary of six reasons why I think his invention of Covidex is mirroring purpose deployment to the core. Listen to this.
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We love miracles and happenstances especially when we have so little input in their creation. We love surprises especially when we do not have to break a sweat to gain a benefit.
Purpose discovery and deployment has some semblance of the miraculous in the form of serendipity. This is what happens when luck meets preparedness. The Covidex story perfectly illustrates this. Listen to this.
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In talking about Covidex, I just realized how smack in the middle of purpose deployment it is. One interesting thing about purpose or a life of purpose is that its discovery and deployment is seldom an event. It is always a process.
Here is why I think Covidex invention and deployment was not an event, but an incremental process up until the opportune time presented itself. Listen to this.
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One of the most interesting things about humans is that we love events. We love things that happen out of the blue and miraculously for our benefit. However, the very nature of nature is structured so that we can use processes more than events.
There is such a thing as purpose refinement. Talking of Covidex as an example in this episode will help to bring this to light. Listen to this.
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One thing I can tell you about purpose is that everyone has one, and for the most part, the things that we need to fulfil it are not very far away from us. Context matters.
If you are deploying your purpose, you will find that it is either around you or within you. That's how it was with Covidex. Listen to this.
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You will find out that I am not just talking about Covidex alone, but any other things that can fall under the category of invention, and even the things that people are doing passionately.
In fact, you could use this information to gauge and find out if you are deploying your purpose. Listen to this.
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When things get tough, contextually, those involved are bound to innovate. At times, they do not need to go way outside of their field of purpose, passion, and strengths. At times, what they already have is what makes them to innovate things and thus fulfil purpose.
Such is the story of Covidex and Professor Patrick Ogwang. Let us get this background before we can discuss why Covidex is smack in the middle of purpose pursuit.
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All of us have Covid Stories to tell. As the dust is settling all over the world about this pandemic, there are quite a number of things that we learnt. One such a thing is that necessity is the mother of invention.
I talked to Professor Ogwang who invented COVIDEX in Episodes #901 and #908 about his story. In this new series, let us explore the reasons why Covidex is in purpose deployment, but first, a background. Listen to this.
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Legacy is part and parcel of purpose. Every time we live a life as was intended, the side effects are always going to reverberate through some generations. If you mention any big name, they would be those who lived on purpose and left a legacy.
The interesting thing is that we cannot focus on having a legacy to have a legacy. We can only focus on purpose and doing what we can at the moment. That's where the magic is. Listen to this.
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It is possible to sleep walk through life. It doesn't matter how busy and full of activities we have, but at times, we just walk through the motions in life without having the gift of presence, urgency or intentionality.
We go to school because it is the norm. We do what we seen other people have done in the previous generations faithfully. We might be sleep walking through life and we don't know it!
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It is easy to be present and not to be present. it is easy also to think that we have 200 years to live just because there is no visible countdown clock over our lives. Consequently, we take moments for granted. We take days, months, even years for granted.
Urgency is what we need if we might be interested in having any semblance of a life of legacy. Listen to this.
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If there was an alien attack and they wanted to find out what the collective psyche of the humans is in stealth mode, they would easily approach their attack from observation. What do we spend most of our time on? Averagely, where is our focus as a human race?
In my thinking, there is a simple way that this can be done. Listen to this.
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Time is one of the most essential driving forces of life. What we do within the time limit that we have determines what our legacy will be. The problem is that we do not see that we have a time limit when we are living.
It is only when we are growing old that we start thinking about the kind of legacy that we want to leave behind. Here is a different thought to this. Listen to this.
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At some level, you find some people totally immersed in thinking and planning for their legacy. They are consumed with thoughts of what people would say about them when they are gone.
The subject of legacy is uncanny, especially with the living. Legacy is what the living will be thinking about those who are gone. What do you do or how do you approach building your own legacy? Listen to this.
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Gratitude is one of the things that we can have daily as long as we are alive. Invariably though, we find ourselves complaining and generally taking some things for granted. We consider them obvious, and sometimes, a right.
Only when they are gone do we realize how important they were in the first place. They are quite a number, but this is just a catalogue of five. Listen to this.
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We do life in the assumption that most of the things we have will always be there, and that we are entitled to have them anyway. Only when they are taken away from us in one way or another do we realize what we are missing.
One of those things is safety and security. How can we not take this for granted? Listen to this.
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When we have them, we take them for granted. Perhaps, this is one area of life that is critical in showing gratitude. When we do not cherish what we already have, we lose them or their vibrancy deteriorates. It starts wasting away and becomes a source of great upheaval in our lives.
I am talking about relationships. Listen to this.
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There are many things that we take for granted. In life we all have passion, purpose and that which matters to us. At times we know all these things because they are resident in our hearts.
Perhaps our biggest challenge in this context is to balance between pursuing our purpose and making a living. It is easy therefore to take purpose for granted. Listen to this.
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They say that our greatest wealth is our health. However, when we are healthy, it is very easy to take that health for granted. Without being healthy, one cannot serve his purpose and meet his goals and objectives.
Let us learn a thing or two here about being grateful for our health. Listen to this.
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Abundance has its salient side effects. At times, it creates an aura of entitlement. Underneath the surface, we are seriously prone to taking things in abundance for granted because we are sure of their shoreless supply.
Let us learn a thing or two here about abundance and the anatomy of taking things for granted. Listen to this.
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Only when it is gone do we have the opportunity to realize how important it is. It is could be a thing, it could be a person. The fact is that abundance and availability makes us to easily take things for granted.
In this new series, I want to talk about the things that money could or could not buy that we daily take for granted. In so doing, let us learn to have gratitude once again. Listen to this.
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It could be a song that I am composing, but the fact is that without motivation, the human race would have no reason for existence. All the new and better things we have in life are brought about by motivation.
We need daily motivation, and we need to be motivated above the level of life. Here are some exciting places where you can get external motivation from.
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If you removed motivation from humanity, you would have killed humanity in a very potent way. It seems that other species naturally exist to survive. There is perhaps nothing else outside of their instinct and make up that makes them live.
For us humans, we develop specifically because of motivation. Most, if not all of the things that we have done have always been a result of being motivated. There are several types of motivation in life. Here are just a few. Listen to this.
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The most interesting thing in life is that no matter who you are and where you come from, you have colleagues. Perhaps the most salient but powerful source of motivation is colleagues.
This is important to note because we seldom question our colleagues. Either positively or negatively, they impact our lives. Listen to this.
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When Eliud Kiphchoge run the sub two hour marathon in Vienna, one of the greatest tactics that his team employed was the use of pacesetters. At every given interval, a new team of pacesetters would join the race and help him.
Much as pacesetters in athletics are paid to do their work to make other people shine, in real life, there are pacesetters all around us. These are people who have higher standards than we do. They give us motivation to up our standards. Listen to this.
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There are two types of motivation. There is internal motivation and then there is external motivation. We need both. Motivation has the power to move us from drab existence to purpose and focus.
Incidentally, competition, if looked at well, can be one of those powerful external motivations that we need today. When is the last time you competed? It is a very powerful source of motivation. Listen to this.
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All that we have ever done has been directly or indirectly connected to motivation. I wonder what it would be like if at all there was a force that sucked motivation out of humanity. Would we live? How long would we survive?
It is for this reason that I think we need to take motivation seriously. Without it, I believe the human race goes down. All you have done today was probably a result of motivation. Listen to this.
