In our second week we’ll dig deep into what moves us, drives which lie just below the surface. It’s where we do or can draw our motivation from? Discovering what give our life meaning and meaning to our life.

To truly fuel the M (motivation) in EMPOWER we need to define our purpose. Define an answer as to why we are here.

We all have unique interest, skills and abilities which are feed by things we are curious about. This is where motivation originates and Week Two begins.

To start, write down 25 things you are curious about.

Your list can consist of an interest in something you’re passionate about or simply have a mild interest in finding out more, 

Example – here’s a sample of some of the curiosities I wrote down:

• leadership
• exercise
• peak performance aging
• the functioning of the brain
• history
• spirituality

Once completed, if you don’t have it already, download the free version of Chat GPT or a similar AI app which is compatible with your phone.

NEXT: type the 25 curiosities into the app, and ask the app to create an MTP (Massively Transformative Purpose) from those 25 curiosities.

This will be a jumping off point, a point from which to get your bearings. This is a process we can keep refining until we identify an MTP which resonates with us to our core.

Your MTP should scare you as you remember this may potentially become your life’s work.

Recommended reading: The Art of Impossible – Steven Kotler 

As we start to examine and live into our newly crafted MTP and begin our work on it, we will use those same curiosities as a base line and a spring board to start our work.

As we progress we will undoubtedly uncover or recall latent skills we’ve used or accessed in the past. We may never have thought of or considered them as skills but simply our own innate natural abilities, yet either way, we can use them to motivate us, helping to fuel our passion.

Motivation and passion are essential components to get us started but the key is the third ingredient, will power.

Motivation and passions source is dopamine – a neurochemical/hormone which has a finite life span.

Will power on the other hand, is founded on discipline.  To accomplish our MTP it will take all the motivation, passion and discipline we have.

Recommended reading: Failing Forward – John Maxwell

As we combine our skills, passion and will power to create the vision for our MTP, it is important to understand this is a minimum multi-year commitment, if not the work of a life time.

To accomplish this we must begin by laying out a five year plan. This can be done simply by taking our MTP and prompting whichever app we have used to create or generate an initial, strategic five year plan to start with.

Recommended reading: Start with Why – Simon Sinek