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How can you live a life that is more passionate, fulfilling, meaningful, on-purpose, and satisfying?
Three Steps to Fire Up Your Life!:
1) Find ways to use your unique, God-given strengths, talents, gifts, and resources to serve others.
2) Serve others passionately, humbly, and as anonymously as possible.
3) Repeat steps one and two daily.
Tom Rath and the wonderful folks at The Gallup Organization created “StrengthsFinder 2.0” to help you learn about your natural, personal strengths. Marcus Buckingham has written numerous books on how to put your strengths to work. I wrote “Life Matches: Fire Up Your Life!” to help you make living a strengths-based life a habit. Download my free find-your-strengths exercises here: Life Matches: Fire Up Your Life! Exercises.
There are three requirements to create fire:
1) Fuel
2) Air
3) Ignition source
If you want to fire up your life, you need three similar essential elements:
1) Fuel=Passions, strengths, talents, gifts, knowledge, skills, and personal experiences.
2) Air=Time
3) Ignition source=Other people, situations, circumstances and I believe, God.
You were uniquely designed for a purpose. Your life’s quest is to discover and serve your purpose. Your purpose will involve serving others in ways that only you can serve them.
Your service to your purpose may end up only being a percentage of your time, but it will be your most satisfying use of your time. Living on-purpose is the reason to live.
My life motto is, “Learn it. Live it. Share the spark!” I believe that my purpose for being alive is to first learn new things. Then I live with them to personally prove that the new learnings are true and helpful. Finally, I get to enjoy the satisfaction of sharing what I have learned and how it has personally benefited me on my life’s journey, to hopefully help others in their journeys. I live to be an ignition source or as I like to think of it, a “sparker” of other people so that they can live their lives more “Fired Up!” Each time I share a spark with someone, it fuels me to invest more time in sparking more people, which helps keep my life matches burning brightly! Sparking others is my passion and is now my habit.
I was not always a sparker. I had to learn and do the three steps above.
Unfortunately, you tend to lose what you don’t use. Fire up or fizzle out. You get to choose. I choose to live Fired Up!
Hopefully, by writing this, I have shared a spark with you. Please let me know if this helps you to serve your life’s purpose and to Fire Up Your Life! Then you will be sharing your spark with me.
PS: You can buy “Life Matches: Fire Up Your Life!” at http://www.booklocker.com/books/4765.html.
Ready to fire up your work and your life? I’m an executive coach from Indianapolis, and I work one-on-one with executives and managers, in person for local clients or via Zoom. If this post raised a question about your work or your next step, we should talk. The first discovery call is free and confidential. Book your discovery call, or call or text me at 317-643-0058, Monday through Friday, 9 to 5.
