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Purpose - Create Your Life Purpose from the
"End of the List"
If you want to change some things in your life you have to change
some things in your life. Start by changing the way you look at your
challenges. Use creative thinking to make a long list of possible
solutions to your challenges and then critical thinking to narrow
down the most effective ideas. You can apply this to problem
solving in business, defining your life purpose, finding love, team
building around an issue and much more.
The Life Purpose List that Rocks!
Creative Thinking:
1. Make a long and extensive list of every single possible crazy
wild idea that describes “WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS AND FEELS
LIKE” as it relates to your dilemma. No judgments. No closed off
thinking. No “I can’t becauses.” Come up with at least 50
solutions. Cluster these into theme areas and combine.
2. After this list is created – keep going. Throw out the most
outlandish ideas you can think of. This “End of the List” is where
revolutions are made, new industries are created and wild ideas
become things like Facebook, Groupon and iPad. Empty your
mind for unless it is emptied, it cannot be filled with new thoughts.
Critical Thinking:
3. So what is the real question you need to have answered? Do
not let your mind wonder to solutions. Just define the question. Is
this question different than you originally thought? You may have
been asking what to do with your life? Maybe you really want to
ask what you need to eliminate? Or maybe you have been asking
yourself how to clear the clutter that consumes your time but what
you really want to know is from whom or where can you seek the
knowledge and experience you need?
4. Generate useful answers by narrowing down your list. Prune
down the ideas from numbers 1 and 2 in this exercise to uncover
the most effective solution to answer your question from number 3.
Lists help you realize things that lie beneath the surface and un-
vetted. Create your lists without inhibition and watch your
possibilities take off. Start now!
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Mary Lee Gannon is the president of Gannon Group - a full service
coaching and consulting firm that creates productivity solutions for
people and organizations who are "stuck" in transition. Individual
clients are addressing: Life Transition, Divorce, Life Purpose, Five
& Ten Year Plans, Career Change, Relationship Shift, Loss, Empty
Nest, and Work Life Balance. Corporate client services include:
Strategic Planning, Public Relations - Brand Equity, Cultural
Accountability, Meeting Facilitation, Vision Creation, Strategy
Execution, Stress and Time Management, and Negotiations. Mary
Lee’s personal turnaround came as a stay-at-home mother, with
four children under seven-years-old, who endured a divorce that
took she and the children from the country club life to public
assistance from where within a short time she worked to the level
of CEO. Her book "Starting Over - 25 Rules for When You've
Bottomed Out" is available in bookstores and at with online book
sellers. Sign up for Mary Lee’s Free Coaching e-newsletter.
"End of the List"
If you want to change some things in your life you have to change
some things in your life. Start by changing the way you look at your
challenges. Use creative thinking to make a long list of possible
solutions to your challenges and then critical thinking to narrow
down the most effective ideas. You can apply this to problem
solving in business, defining your life purpose, finding love, team
building around an issue and much more.
The Life Purpose List that Rocks!
Creative Thinking:
1. Make a long and extensive list of every single possible crazy
wild idea that describes “WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS AND FEELS
LIKE” as it relates to your dilemma. No judgments. No closed off
thinking. No “I can’t becauses.” Come up with at least 50
solutions. Cluster these into theme areas and combine.
2. After this list is created – keep going. Throw out the most
outlandish ideas you can think of. This “End of the List” is where
revolutions are made, new industries are created and wild ideas
become things like Facebook, Groupon and iPad. Empty your
mind for unless it is emptied, it cannot be filled with new thoughts.
Critical Thinking:
3. So what is the real question you need to have answered? Do
not let your mind wonder to solutions. Just define the question. Is
this question different than you originally thought? You may have
been asking what to do with your life? Maybe you really want to
ask what you need to eliminate? Or maybe you have been asking
yourself how to clear the clutter that consumes your time but what
you really want to know is from whom or where can you seek the
knowledge and experience you need?
4. Generate useful answers by narrowing down your list. Prune
down the ideas from numbers 1 and 2 in this exercise to uncover
the most effective solution to answer your question from number 3.
Lists help you realize things that lie beneath the surface and un-
vetted. Create your lists without inhibition and watch your
possibilities take off. Start now!
Sign up for Mary Lee’s Free Coaching e-newsletter.
Get Mary Lee’s free tip sheets on “Anxiety is Practicing Failure in
Advance - Eliminate It!" and "Seven Killer Ground Rules for
Effective Meeting Facilitations" at Articles and Tip Sheets.
Mary Lee Gannon is the president of Gannon Group - a full service
coaching and consulting firm that creates productivity solutions for
people and organizations who are "stuck" in transition. Individual
clients are addressing: Life Transition, Divorce, Life Purpose, Five
& Ten Year Plans, Career Change, Relationship Shift, Loss, Empty
Nest, and Work Life Balance. Corporate client services include:
Strategic Planning, Public Relations - Brand Equity, Cultural
Accountability, Meeting Facilitation, Vision Creation, Strategy
Execution, Stress and Time Management, and Negotiations. Mary
Lee’s personal turnaround came as a stay-at-home mother, with
four children under seven-years-old, who endured a divorce that
took she and the children from the country club life to public
assistance from where within a short time she worked to the level
of CEO. Her book "Starting Over - 25 Rules for When You've
Bottomed Out" is available in bookstores and at with online book
sellers. Sign up for Mary Lee’s Free Coaching e-newsletter.
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