Purpose

I just read "Heroic Leadership: Best Practices From A 450 Year Old Company That Changed The World" by Chris Lowney.

He is a former Jesuit priest turned corporate investment banker. He describes Jesuit practices of how to become a better leader and one of the practices is to meditate for 5 minutes three times a day.

I wish to record the meat of my meditations...to keep me focused and moving forward.

The first focus is that divine love pours out into the world without end. It is not a limited quantity. This means knowing I and everyone around me is a "loved person of unique dignity and potential...". I don't have to respect the person but I do need to respect their divine spirit.

The next focus is to meditate on my key personal goals. Career, Relationships, Financial, Home.

The next focus is to take stock of my actions thus far in the day to see if they helped me reach my long term goals or moved me in the opposite direction. In the words of Al-Anon or AA, take a "fearless moral inventory" twice a day based on my actions. And if they were in the opposite direction to ask for divine help in moving me in the right direction.

The final focus is a "restless drive to imagine a greater project, or a better way of accomplishing the current problems". It also touches on motivation. What goals motivate you that you would go beyond 100% effort to achieve them. That idea of athletes going beyond what they thought possible to achieve the impossible.

So the meditations are:

-Key goals
-Divine Love
-Fearless moral inventory
-Motivation

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Success!!!

GOAL: It has been a long while since I have posted here, but I have been keeping mostly on top of my daily meditations at least. And last week the meditations paid of BIG time!!! I got the job of my dreams in New Orleans, after accepting a position in Houston. I had made my peace with the fact that I wasn't getting what I had hoped for and the company called me after I had accepted the offer to tell me they had found a position for me in New Orleans and would I be willing to take the position. HECK YEAH!!! So for me, this is a dream come true and a confirmation that this stuff really does work! Even when it appeared that I would be moving to Houston I still believed that this meditation works and is worthwhile. Now I know it is amazing and it has made a believer out of me! So my next big task is to come up with a new goal to set my sights on! Part of it is to get back in shape which includes eating right and getting down to a weight that looks good on me. Which has less to do with the scale and more to do with my workouts! So I think although this has been a goal for a little over a month now, I need to formalize it. I will get back to you on what the exact wording of the goal will be. Let me think on it....
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