The Purpose
Is there an underlying purpose that drives you every day?
Is there something specific that you have dedicated your life to
that makes you want to do your very best every day? Is there a
purpose beyond making money where you feel part of something bigger than just yourself? Is that what's driving you?
Creating Something Extraordinary
Do you want to make something truly amazing? Something that is completely breathtaking? Something that will
change the future for lots of people? Is that what wakes you up
in the morning and keeps you going all day?
Being a Part of a Team
Is your favorite thing to be a part of a great team where
everyone is working together to support one another toward
fulfilling a meaningful purpose or achieving a meaningful
objective? Do you love being a team member as opposed to the
manager of the team? Is your passion to play a significant role
as a part of a greater whole?
Leading a Team
Perhaps your ideal role is to lead a team; to go out and
identify the talents and attitudes you want on your team, recruit
those people, and build an extraordinary work group for the
long term.
Behind the Scenes Difference-Maker
spinning your wheels and feeling that nothing worthwhile was
actually achieved that day. You love to move projects forward,
and you hate listening to whining and complaining and a victim
mentality. What's driving you is the belief that something really
good will be accomplished today.
Contribution
What is important to you is feeling that you mattered today.
You have to feel that you contributed in some way at a meeting,
in a private conversation, in an email or at a volunteer event. It
drives you crazy to sit in a meeting for two hours and to have
contributed nothing. You gain energy when you sense that you
are actually adding value to other people in some way.
Identify Your Three Greatest Passions
Those are 13 passions people get energized by; no one gets
fuel from all of them. Review the list and identify your three
greatest passions. This will help you in the future to place your
time and effort in a way where you will have the energy to make
a significant difference for your organization. S
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Maybe what really gets you going is to create magic behind
the scenes where no one knows the role you played in generating
incredible success, except those few people who worked sideby-side with you.You love the feeling of being able to move from
project to project in almost an invisible way where no one interferes with your work and the results of that work speak for itself.
Out-In-Front Leader
If your passion is to be the out-in-front leader, then you
are driven to lead an entire organization where you become the
face and the voice of the organization, and where everyone from
customers to shareholders to the media know that you are the
person running the show. This desire to lead an entire company
is what fuels you to keep working long, hard hours.
Responsibility for Others
The best feeling for you is to lay in bed at night and know
that meaningful stuff got done that day. You hate the feeling of
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You see your responsibility to your spouse, your children,
your parents and your community as the most important
aspects of your life. You work hard at work to be able to provide
for other people. You're not focused on your title or material
goods. You are driven to make sure that your aging parents are
well taken care of and that your children get a great education. You are willing to invest your time and energy into your