Find Your Purpose and Personal Success Part 2

Purpose

Julie’s discovery of purpose and how it leads to personal success.   I was working with a business manager of a construction firm. Her role included supporting the owner of the business, as well as collating and organising information and financials into a...

What is Purpose? Part 1

Purpose

“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.”...

Values, and How They Guide Us

For Business, Purpose

When we enter an organisation and start to delve into their culture, we always help them identify their underlying values as the very first step we take together. As a business that works with other organisations in their cultural alignment, we have to practice what...

Simon Sinek How Great Leaders Inspire Great Action Members Only

Member's Library, Purpose

This is a highly recommended TED Talk where Simon Sinek beautifully and eloquently explains how people don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it. He uses the Why, What, How diagram to show how leading with the Why inspires people. Peppered with commercial examples...

Tony Robbins Asks Why We Do What We Do Members Only

Member's Library, Purpose

This TED Talk probably needs a few views to grasp the complexity that Robbins presents. Basically, he emphasises the Why of what we do and how understanding the forces that move people allows leaders to be influential and significant. Robbins explains 6 universal...

Dan Pink on Motivation Members Only

Member's Library, Purpose

Dan Pink makes a great case for intrinsic motivation vs extrinsic motivation in business. Extrinsic motivations – the carrots and sticks approach, rewards, incentives etc., have been shown by various studies to work only in a narrow band of circumstances. And in fact,...