Bruce Lee’s Definite Chief Aim

I thought that this was as powerful an example of an outcome generator I have ever seen. Bruce Lee is one of the world’s greatest known martial artists. He did so by giving such powerful performances on and off the screen.

Lee’s Definite Chief Aim (DCA) has all the ingredients of a successful motivator. It has the what, the how, and most importantly the why. By laying it out in this fashion, he makes it easy to see what he was after and what he was going to have to do to get it.

We can see the outcome in his legacy.

What: Tell yourself exactly what it is that you will accomplish and by when “I know I will _______________.”
(Understand that this is only a vehicle to get you your why. The why is the real desired outcome.)

How:
“In return I will ___________________________.” (The ends must be justified by the means.)

When:
“By ________________ I will have ____________.”

Why:
“I will ______________________.”
(What will the vehicle get you? What will be different that is a must for you)

Warm Bread Is Not Toast

                                                    Chris Brogan

What Drives Human Behavior

Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
Instead of a second-rate version of someone else.

– Judy Garland

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Handbook for the Soul

To paraphrase something the anthropologist Ashley Montagu once said,
“The way I change my life is to act as if I’m the person I want to be.”
This is, to me, the simplest, wisest advice you can give anyone.
                                              Benjamin Shield Handbook for the Soul

Stephen Covey

If life were a painting, and you were an artist;
What would you paint?
-Stephen Covey

Willie Wonka

Never, never doubt

what no one is sure about.

-Willie Wonka

Lewis Carroll

Alice came to a fork in the road.  “Which road do I take?” she asked.
“Where do you want to go?” responded the Cheshire cat.
“I don’t know,” Alice answered.
“Then,” said the cat, “it doesn’t matter.”

-Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland



VICTOR HUGO

“The future has several names.

For the weak, it is impossible.

For the fainthearted, it is unknown.

For the thoughtful and valiant, it is ideal.”

Ben Franklin’s thirteen moral virtues

The thirteen moral virtues listed by Benjamin Franklin in his Autobiography:

1. Temperance. Eat not to Dullness. Drink not to Elevation.

2. Silence. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself. Avoid trifling Conversation.

3. Order. Let all your Things have their Places. Let each Part of your Business have its Time.

4. Resolution. Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve.

5. Frugality. Make no Expense but to do good to others or yourself: i.e. Waste nothing.

6. Industry. Lose no Time. Be always employ’d in something useful. Cut off all unnecessary Actions.

7. Sincerity. Use no hurtful Deceit. Think innocently and justly; and, if you speak, speak accordingly.

8. Justice. Wrong none, by doing Injuries or omitting the Benefits that are your Duty.

9. Moderation. Avoid Extremes. Forbear resenting Injuries so much as you think they deserve.

10. Cleanliness. Tolerate no Uncleanness in Body, Clothes or Habitation.

11. Tranquility. Be not disturbed at Trifles, or at Accidents common or unavoidable.

12. Chastity. Rarely use Venery but for Health or Offspring; Never to Dullness, Weakness, or the Injury of your own or another’s Peace or Reputation.

13. Humility. Imitate Jesus and Socrates.

Also…

The Morning Question, What Good shall I do this Day?

The Evening Question, What Good have I done today?