When do you find purpose?

Superman started saving the world at 33. This stands out because he always had super strength, the ability to leap buildings in a single bound, the heat vision etc. In short, he always had the power to do it.

What he didn’t have was his purpose. The greatest powers in the world mean nothing unless they have direction.

When he did start, he had his share of failures. There was a lot of fear - even for the Man of Steel. Even if he had an indestructible body - his feelings remained.

He had to be ready to take a leap of faith. He had to be ready to trust himself.

Take as long as you need to figure out what you need to do. When you do… commit. Take the leap of faith.

Further Study

[Man of Steel] (http://manofsteel.com) Seth Godin

Where am I going with my social media?

We push ourselves in a direction with our campaign, but he hardly ever sit and wonder just what we are pushing ourselves towards.

We make mistakes. Some things can’t be avoided, but large amount of problems could be if we took a second and scoped out the landscape.

Social media a mess for most of us. Haphazard posts, asking for a follow, a friend, or a fan, but there is no direction.

Ask yourself, what would you want to see when you look at social media. What would help you. Follow people who follow the mold. Add your interesting things to it, experiment, and bring the people along.

They are waiting.

Further Reading

[Ctrl Alt Del] (http://www.amazon.com/Ctrl-Alt-Delete-Business-Depends/dp/1455523305)

Take a break sometimes.

It pays to take chances.

As a matter of fact, lately, it seems like it’s the only way to go.

Where things stand now, in this economy, people seem to do more meaningful and purposeful work when they go small, take on the start-up, or start their own business.

The time of working 40 years at your job, and getting the gold watch have come and gone.

No longer will you be able to look across the table at your retirement party and guess when the rest of your team will join you on the golf course.

The benefit? We live in an era where information is almost free, and opportunity can be boundless if you go for it.

Fortune favors the bold.

*Further Reading

[James Aluchter] (http://www.jamesaltucher.com/‎) [Choose Yourself] (http://www.amazon.com/Choose-Yourself-ebook/dp/B00CO8D3G4) [Chris Guillebeau] (http://chrisguillebeau.com/) [Tim Ferriss] (http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/) *

We used to be left alone.

In our warehouses, our farms, and even our businesses, we were left alone to tinker, to work, to rest when we had to.

We may have had less “productivity” but our critical thinking skills and sense of control were there. You could pick yourself up by your own bootstraps, and make something happen.

These days, your attention is pulled in a million directions. Check that e-mail. Pull that IM. Answer that call. Go to Meeting. By the end of the day, your energy is low, you have a plate of to-do’s and it feels like nothing was done.

Because nothing was done.

One of the most important lessons one can learn is the power of guided silence.

That silence gives you a chance to sit with your work, look at an outline, and begin to make something worth while. It is guided by preparation and a goal.

At first it is odd to turn off all those notifications, but once you focus, a world of creativity opens up. From that creativity, you can start doing meaningful work.

You might even start leaving on time too.

Further Reading:

Manage Your Day to Day 99u Lifehacker

There is no way to sugar coat it - failure is frustrating.

We have all run into that issue where success feels a mile away.

You fail, you turn around and try something else and you fail, you use a different medium and you fail.

There is no going back, you have already crossed the Rubicon. No fall back. It is either success, or nothing.

The entire thing feels like a lesson in failure and frustration.

But finally, you get it. We see success, it is finally within your grasp - and we forget what it took for us to get there.

When we see the next problem - we dismiss the tools we gathered on the last go around. We start from scratch.

This is the true failure.

The best thinkers use failure to build their tool shed. I feel like I should do the same.

It took Bruce Wayne 18 years.

It was 18 years from the time of his parents murder until he became Batman.

He had to go through: 18 Years of training. 18 years of anticipation. 18 years of emotion.

He had an idea what he wanted to do 18 years before putting on the cowl, but only after going through the training, and sensing his environment, did he fully understand.

Preparation.

In After Earth, Cypher Raige is a Ghost. A man without fear. He and his son are stuck on Earth, and although he is fearless, his son is full of fear.

When his son is afraid, when anything is out of order, Cypher tells him to take a knee and sense his surroundings. Sense his environment and things become clear.

Mindfulness.

Preparation and mindfulness are keys to understanding. From that, all things are possible.

*Further Watching:

Batman Year One (http://www.netflix.com) After Earth(http:// www.afterearth.com)*

One of the keys to the future is Social Media curation.

It is often neglected, passed along to the interns, shuttled behind closed doors. It gets left behind,along with its valuable lessons and insights

For many creatives, there is a vision of “keeping it real”.” My art will get me discovered.”

It’s odd, but a lot of things are left by the wayside in the name of “paying dues”. You get no bonus points for making things hard on yourself.

It just leaves you wondering why you didn’t put things to work in the first place.

Building a tribe happens at the smaller levels. Social media is perfect for that these days, because we all are not looking in the same places, except if they happen to be Twitter, Facebook, or Youtube.

Like many other things, there will be bumps bruises and problems along the way. But the payoff could be tremendous.

Even if it isn’t, you have gotten another tool to make this all work. And you have gained to skill to sell it to someone who could use it.

*Reading:

Ctrl + Alt + Del(http://www.amazon.com/Ctrl-Alt-Delete-Business-Depends/dp/1455523305)

Seth Godin (http://www.sethgodin.com)*

Learning the building blocks of success.

Being an entrepreneur is a road to success, and it is one that can be extremely narrow but insanely satisfying.

It satisfies a creative itch. No safety net means deal or die.

The interesting part about that road is it looks incredibly inviting when you first look - set your own hours, be your own boss, do what you want.

Once you are on it, you see what makes that road narrow, like laziness, mindlessness, no discipline, that make people stop and turn around.

Even with that said, you are more than likely going to fail - but the building blocks with learned failure give you the chance to go back and try again with the road a little wider.

A great theme for any decade.

This morning I woke up thought about being mindful.

I came to the conclusion that being mindful is important. As a matter of fact, learning how to be mindful might be the most important thing in my life right now.

It is a part of everything anyone does. To me, mindfulness is the care of doing while you are doing. You can start things and even finish things without being mindful, but you end up losing out on the journey and missing on what you could learn.

The importance lies in the connection mindfulness has to discipline. It is one of the building blocks. Staying over and making sure that you do the right thing, and finishing that thing every time. I want to use that in everything I do.

Mindfulness is my key to success.

I am quite mindful of that.