The DAILY SPARK Blog

YOUR WHY

Struggling to discover your purpose… your why for being? According to Stephi Cohen, you can discover it by finding the balance between your skills, talents and passion.   

What are skills?

SKILLS definition*: a learned power of doing something competently : a developed aptitude or ability   

What are talents?

TALENTS definition*: a special often athletic, creative, or artistic aptitude; the natural endowments of a person

What is passion? 

PASSION definition*: a strong liking or desire for or devotion to some activity, object, or concept 

*Source: Merriam-Webster Dictionary

Stephi Cohen is a 25x World Record Holding Powerlifter,
Author, Podcast Host, and owner of Hybrid Performance Method.

REFLECTION:

  • What skills have you learned and perform with a level of competency?
  • What special talents – natural endowments do you possess?
  • What activities, things do you love to do? What is something you are passionate about?
  • Looking at the intersection of these three components, can you gain clarity on your why? your purpose?  Reflect … go on a discovery journey.

YOUR POWERBROKER

The powerbroker of your life is the voice that noone ever hears.  In other words, it is the voice inside your head.  How well you revisit the tone and content of your private voice determines the quality of your life.  It is the master storyteller.  And the stories we tell ourselves become our reality. 

Quote by Tim Ferris in podcast interview with Jim Loehr.

Jim Loehr is a Co-Founder of Johnson & Johnson Human Performance Institute, a world-renowned performance psychologist and author of 17 books including his most recent, LEADING WITH CHARACTER.

REFLECTION:

  • How does your “powerbroker” speak to you?
  • Would you be proud to have those words displayed on a large screen for all the world to see? 
  • If your internal story has created your current reality, do you like it?  Do you want to change it? 
  • Do you need to change the tone and voice of your current script to create a different life… reality?
  • What will you stop saying?  What will you start saying? (Remember PAUSE can support the shift from the automatic tape playing in your head.)

OUR COMMON HUMANITY

When we are judging we are pointing at each other and not pointing at the problem.  In our political system, we point right or left, left or right.  This prevents us from pointing at the actual problem.  As a result, we demonize each other.  If we can identify the common problem, we can find a way to move forward. 

“Anytime we are having these conversations, we need to remember that the common enemy is injustice, not each other.” Quote by Lisa Nichols

Paraphrased from a podcast on One Commune with Jeff Krasno and Justin Michael Williams

REFLECTION:

  • Is there someone you are demonizing?  In our divided country, there is much finger pointing… labeling – left liberals… right conservatives. 
  • How can you stop finger pointing and find our common humanity – what unites us?
  • If injustice is the enemy, what can you do to make your world..the world more just?