There are 8 billion people in the world. And sometimes we feel like we’re responsible for all of them.
This is the curse of social media.
We know everything.
We see a world on fire. And we want to fix it.
But we can’t. Not all of it.
We need to resist this urge to take it all on and instead do our part.
Our 1/8,000,000,000th share.
This wisdom comes courtesy of Nell Derick Debevoise, today’s guest on the DesuckifyWork™ podcast. Nell is a speaker, coach, facilitator, advisor and author who focuses on helping people and organizations connect to their purpose.
Now that word’s been overused and thoroughly abused in recent years. Especially in advertising and marketing.
But we’re not talking about purpose-washing here. We’re talking about aligning your investments in time, energy, attention and money, with your desired outcomes.
It’s shocking how bad most of us are at this. But the good news is, we can get better, fast.
🐱 We can work with Nell’s impact dashboard tool to quickly assess how and where we’re spending our time and energy.
🐱 We can compare those results with our stated purpose. Are we doing things that will create the results we say we want?
🐱 We can make changes, either to the actions we take or to the outcomes we want, to bring things into alignment.
Wouldn’t it be nice to land in that sweet spot, where most of the things we do actually have an impact on the things we want for ourselves, our workplaces and the world?
Listen to Nell and you’ll get there a lot sooner than you think.
You can follow Nell on LinkedIn. And check out her site at nelldd.com, where you can download a free “to don’t” list and subscribe to her inner circle newsletter. You should also check out her book, Going First: Find the Courage to Lead Purposefully and Inspire Action, along with the accompanying Purpose Party Playbook.
Speaking of parties, my site and my substack newsletter are the place to be on a Saturday night or anytime, really. And if you’d like to really go wild, let’s set up a free half hour desuckified discovery session.
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Bye, everyone!
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Episode 43: Aligning our work and our purpose with Nell Derick Debevoise