Your Life In A Sentence
NOTE: I’m writing this post after reading author Dan Pink’s book, DRIVE. This is a snippet of information and I suggest you read his book for more information.
Have you ever been told that the way to conduct your life is to write your own obituary?
It’s a popular college assignment. And many life coaches ask their clients to write their obituary as a goal-setting exercise. You write the end of your story first and then set out to do all those great things you said you did.
In Dan Pink’s book, he poses an alternative assignment. He asks the question: “What is your sentence?”
The origin of the question is attributed to journalist and pioneering Congresswoman Clare Booth Lace –a badass in her day. Worried that the young President John Kennedy might be in danger of trying to do too much, she told him: ” a great man is a sentence”. Meaning a leader with a clear and strong purpose could be summed up in a single line.
For example: “Abraham Lincoln preserved the union and freed the slaves.”
Martin Luther King lost his life by trying to better the lives of the African-American people.”
Pink says that to find your true motivation you don’t need to be president of anything for this exercise to work.
“To make your sentence come alive and provide motivation that lasts, ask yourself these two questions every day,” Pinks says:
1. What is my one sentence?
2. Was I better today than yesterday?
If your goal(s) has not yet been achieved, ask yourself: How do I live my life to line up with the sentences I say about myself?
I’m going to work on mine.*
BE F-G AWESOME TODAY!
Original graphic and quote: Stephanie DelTorchio
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*For now: “She gave everything honest effort, and ate an obscene amount of chocolate” is a good start.
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