Find Your Why: a practical Guide for Discovering Purpose for You and Your Team pdfdrive com

Leaders are the ones who have the
courage to go first and open a path for
others to follow.
The more specific the memories, the better. “Our family took a driving vacation
every summer”—nope, that’s too general to be helpful. “Our family always took
driving vacations. One year the car broke down in the desert, and we had to
hitchhike to Albuquerque. I was seriously scared, but I remember thinking that I
needed to be strong so that my younger sister wouldn’t be scared as well, so I
made up a game to entertain us”—this is the kind of specific detail you’ll need!
Rediscovering the details, the feelings, the conversations, the lessons learned
will offer clues to who you are and what your WHY is. The more stories you can
recover and share, the more data you’ll compile. And the more data you can
draw on, the more easily you’ll begin to see the recurring ideas or themes.
Whether you are an individual or a tribe, press your memory for the stories that
have made the biggest difference in your life. Some occasions you recall may be
momentous, but many won’t be. What’s important is the quality of the memory,
the specific details you remember and the strong emotion you feel as you tell the
story to someone else. Because it is very difficult to be objective and see the
golden thread that connects our stories, we suggest, whether you follow the
individual or the tribe process, that you work with a partner or with a facilitator,
respectively.

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Are you wondering, “Umm, will this take as long as Freudian therapy?” Relax,
there’s no couch required. You’ll come up with as many specific, impactful
memories as you can—at least ten. Once you’ve got them all down, you’ll
choose about five or six that made the biggest difference in your life and share
them in as much detail as you can.