How To Do Meaningful Work And Leave A Legacy
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The document is a guide for individuals seeking to understand and align their personal missions with their projects and contributions to the world. It outlines an exercise to identify personal interests, values, and skills, and encourages users to create a mission statement that reflects their intended impact. Ultimately, it emphasizes the importance of personal ownership and satisfaction in one's endeavors to create meaningful change.
How To Do Meaningful Work And Leave A Legacy
- 1. What Impact Will You Have On The World? An exercise and introduction to the Navigation process EMPLLC 2019
- 2. Has This Happened to You? You listen to the advice, and you feel resistance. Or, you take the advice and it doesn’t feel like it fits. You struggle with getting started, keeping momentum, and the whole process feels incredibly uncomfortable. Even worse, you're not yielding the results you want. So you think, “Man I must be jacked up, something must be wrong with me. I have to be doing this wrong”
- 3. There's never been another you and there will never be another you. That's disruptive
- 4. Walk Through My Navigation Process See where you might be thinking small Understand where you might be diverging yourself from what you do. See how you can take more ownership over projects and tailor them for yourself. Understand how you might be contributing to "obstacles." What We'll Do In The Next 20 Minutes Is... Finally tie the things you do with the things that matter to you most. Discover ways to shift or start
- 5. Why This Work Matters By the end of this brief time you'll: - Start to find ways you can enjoy the side-hustles, projects, work, initiatives, and businesses. - See a connection between the things you do and the impact you want to leave on the world. - Begin to appreciate how important your experiences, struggles, triumphs, and challenges are. Oftentimes what we are doing isn't what's wrong, it's the way that we go about doing it.
- 6. You'll have a better understanding of what matters to you. Come up with your own personal mission statement. Settle on the impact you want to have in the world. Get more satisfaction from current projects by aligning them. Finish off with your own personal storytale. For Our Time Together
- 7. What Are The Things That Matter To You? Take the next five or so minutes to list the following: 1. List the things you love to do. This can be hobbies, or things like dance or wine. 2. List 3 values that are important to you personally. For example, values like equity, inclusion, kindness. 3. List five or so skill sets that are special to you, and pick the one skill set feel best represents you and helps the most people.
- 8. Start playing the video again when you're ready. Pause Here For A Few Moments to Answer
- 9. Why Are You Here And What Are You Meant To Do? To____________ so that ____________. The first blank is the contribution you will make and the second is the impact. When I say impact, how will the world look different because of you and what will that difference be. Name it. Everything should have a mission statement to inform. A sort of north star to help with orienting and decision-making.
- 10. Start playing the video again when you're ready. Pause Here For A Few Moments to Answer
- 11. What's All Of This For And What Is Your Impact? What is the change you to see in the world? What the world looks like when you’re done? and ways you’ll know you’re done. What do you believe the big challenges are currently? What do you perceive the big challenge is? And where do you feel stuck? Take a few moments to write out. How will you know you’ve accomplished the goal? What does success look like?
- 12. Start playing the video again when you're ready. Pause Here For A Few Moments to Answer
- 13. How Do You Go About Creating Alignment? List the things you’re working on. Volunteer projects, side-hustles, businesses, charities, all of it. List projects and businesses you want to start. Take a look at the list of things you love to do. How many of them align with your projects? Same for values, do your projects embody those values? How about your mission statement? Find ways to meld your interests, values and mission statement.
- 14. How 'Bout That You Made It Through! You made it through! This is a really shortened version of the work we do with clients, but it should be a good start. From here, we help clients translate what they learn and actually bring the projects, initiatives, businesses, or movements to life. Making sure all these learnings (mission, vision, impact, values) show up in everything from the entity to the contracts.
- 15. The prompt to create your own storytale has it's own prompt. Email me for a copy
- 16. There is someone out there waiting for you to be you.
- 17. Meet the impact architect I help people translate their brilliance to construct projects, businesses, charities, and movements that are meaningful to them. Using affordable tools, legal counsel, community, and resources. Erin Mcclarty erin@mcclartypllc.com 832-305-6417 emcclartypllc.com notationsonnonprofits.com