So here we are more than halfway into the quest and I’ve finally caught the week’s theme before the week is over: “Prioritize Your Value”. Starting with this prompt:
Payoff
Visionary: John Jantsch of Duct Tape Marketing fame
Your Quest2016 Prompt today:
What can you stop doing in 2016 such that it would allow you to focus on higher payoff activities?
The stop part of this list is easy:
- Stop wasting so much time on TV and Internet
- Stop wasting money (even pennies), food, and other resources
- Stop avoiding or procrastinating chores and healthy habits, like going to bed at a decent hour
- Stop clinging to the past
- Stop clinging to stuff
- Stop overcommitting to things that don’t inspire or improve me/my life/the lives of others (actually, stop over committing, period)
Now, I’ve written probably a hundred or more versions of the stop list before, and the same things keep showing up. Probably because I haven’t given myself a compelling enough reason to actually stop.
That’s where things start getting a little harder–identifying what those higher payoff activities might be, especially since there doesn’t seem to be a high correlation between value and money in my life right now. If payoff is measured in dollars I should just pack up my toys and return to corporate tech work, but I think most of us know how well that particular career path worked out for me. And since this week is all about prioritizing our value (values?), I’m going to leave money out of it for the moment. Luckily, I think that last stop item gives a pretty clear picture of what I value–inspiring and/or improving myself, my life, and the lives of others:
- Making ART
- WRITING ( actual projects, not just in the journal)
- TRAVEL
- CONNECTING with others
- Finding/creating SANCTUARY (in my home, community, and body)
And here is where the money will hopefully start coming in:
- Crafting my RIGHT LIVELIHOOD from the building blocks listed above
And that exploration is time much better spent than on any of the items in that first list.