Let me ask you this. Have you ever whined, “I don’t own my life; my life owns me!”? In my work as a personal, business, and legal integrator, I hear this a lot. And I’m here to tell you, like I’ve told many clients before you, “You can be Great! all the time! It just depends on how you define Greatness!”
Are you troubled by feeling your life has no meaning? There is a Great! alternative to that aching of emptiness. By learning the definition of Greatness! and applying the P10 Principle to almost everything you do, you can find peace and satisfaction and have a much more meaningful daily existence. You can be Great! All the time!
Just like you, I’ve had both good times and bad times in my life. And in my bad times, just like you, I have wondered if my life had any meaning left in it. In the stress of one Monday morning, besieged by my wife’s ovarian cancer diagnosis, the million bucks we had in the bank, the $800,000 home in which we lived, the law, consulting, and medical practices at which we toiled almost all of our waking hours each day, the sum of it all suddenly lost its meaning. On that particular day, I absolutely felt “I don’t own my life, my life owns me!”
But I was able to turn my life around again and you can, too. Becoming Great! All the time! is the way I overcame all the problems facing me, conquered the fear and greed which were driving me to do a lot of things I didn’t really want to do, and returned to living the meaningful life I once had. And, realizing that sharing one’s gifts is the ultimate value of owning them, I want to share with you the manner and the means of being Great! All the time! in this blog and learn from you at the same time.
Let’s get started with my definition of Greatness!
Greatness! — is a peaceful and satisfied state of mind resulting from using proaction, perception, planning, preparation, practice, and persistence to promote one’s values, vision, and mission into a practically perfect performance of a balanced creation, highest and best use, and recreation of life’s precious resources of self, time, effort, energy, emotion, intellect, property, and people to do the best thing in the present circumstances for the optimal balance of the highest priority and the most of those people, places, and things with whom and which one has relationships and to whom and which and for whom and which one’s values make one responsible.
In this blog we will take this definition apart and discuss it so we can all be Great! All the time!
What’s your definition of Greatness!? Leave a comment below sharing it here.
In the meantime, remember, you GOTTABGATT! Go out there today and be Great! All the time!.