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Steve Pavlina is easily running up the list in my favourite blogs. Why? Because
with an easy (and yet not easy at all) technique he helped me find my life’s
purpose in about 40 minutes.
Sure, his title says 20 minutes, but you’ve got to have all your personal baggage
in check if you want to reach that kind of speed. And sure enough, as the warning
went, when I was done I was bawling my eye’s out. Ya, I’m man enough to admit
that I was bawling like a kid who lost their first pet. It wasn’t pretty. Even
copying and pasting this little phrase brings a little tear to my eye, which means
I was successful.

To be at home with my head in the clouds and music in my heart

“Discovering your purpose is the easy part. The hard part is keeping it with you on a daily basis and working on yourself to the point where you become that purpose.”

Oh boy!

Secrets are funny little things. Somewhere inside us we like to hold onto the pieces of mystery which only we can answer or understand. Why do we do this? For control. I’ve had my own little secret which I’ve been only letting a few people know, here and there. Well, I’m letting it go. Reason being I’ve got something online. It’s completely at a development stage which means if it breaks, it’s to be expected. Plus, control is only an illusion, when you really take a look, the power is in you, not me.

Because I need to soak in as much feedback as I can get, I’m opening the bag out to you. Ladies and Gentlemen, I present, wherestheshow.com. The blog, blog.wherestheshow.com will be the focal point where I will be posting the updates, and request for feedback. So if you do have a chance to take a look, if you could post your comments here, it would be appreciated.

Sitting down and figuring out your values, assessing them and ranking them is definitely an interesting activity. Not one to go through everyday, but definitely a tool to help you in the right direction. So the outcome is:

Before:

1. Self-Understanding
2. Inner-Peace
3. Creativity
4. Success
5. Love
6. Intimacy

It took some time to even get this far. Originally my list was huge, but most of it was synonyms. Now the tricky part, if I’m going to be an entrepreneur, then I need to skew these a little. Look where “Success” is! That’s definitely not where it needs to be. And where is “Health” in there? I don’t even have it on my radar, which it should be. So….

After:

1. Success
2. Creativity
3. Health
4. Love
5. Intimacy
6. Inner-Peace
7. Self-Understanding

Well thanks to Curt Rosengren and Steve Pavlina, I’m going to take Curt’s suggestion of play with Steve’s reminder of values and goals to create a play date for finding and assessing my values. I have goals set, but no values to help them out. I think I have an idea of why I’m having troubles with this independent venture. As Steve said in his article “If you fail to focus your energy on the goals that are truly important to you, some of them will slip away, and that’s a heavy price to pay.” To make things a little harder what happens when the goals you have complete conflict with the values? Well that’s what I’m hoping to find out today. I’ll keep you posted on the outcome.

A quick thought, organizations should go through this same process. Most big organizations and corporations have a way of creating and reviewing goals, but what happens when those goals conflict with the organizational values of the corporate culture? Probably not a good thing either.

Sure, it took me long enough, and I’ve still got miles to go before I sleep. But I’ve got something up in a development location, dev.wherestheshow.com. Remember this is for development purposes so if something goes completely wrong, it’s to be expected. There is a whack of things still to do especially the reminders feature, which is a really key feature needed before launch.

Oh and one problem, was as I was building this out, the data I had in there is now outdated. So now I need to scramble to add in more listings into the system. If there are any listings you want to see, let me know.

So people, time to hack away. Let me know what sucks and what doesn’t. The more feedback the better.