What topics/subjects and causes did you find yourself working on in your stories? How did you occupy yourself or spend your time? What environments have you enjoyed working it? For example, projects, structure, crises, potential goals. In your training and educational history, what things come easily to you? O – Occupational and Service Experiences Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Apple’s Steve Jobs have similar stories. That’s what gave him the edge to start Microsoft and became the richest man in the world. Bill Gates didn’t learn to program in a classroom he took advantage of his access to a computing terminal at the time when other teenagers around the country didn’t have and spent hours upon hours teaching himself. But equally important is training and education that doesn’t happen within formal institutions or relationships but which has impacted your life. Those things are important, too, and you should note them as part of the inventory. By training and education, I don’t merely mean school and college degrees and certificates. What topics/ subjects have been the focus of your training/education? What are the things you learn in your stories? For example, numbers, plants, machinery, money, a team, a language, an audience, etc. What trials have you gone through? T – Training & Educational Experiences What have you suffered, and how has that shaped you? Times of suffering crucial moments to inventory and study to understand the course your life has taken thus far. After years of intentionally studying success, I believe that life is so sacred that it’s very reasonable to assume that there are no coincidences. They are the people they became not in spite of the pain but because of it. When you study the lives of successful people, you come out seeing how the pain they went through helped shape and prepare them for success. The pain we go through in our lives shapes us in surprising ways. Viktor Frankl, mentioned above, suffering is one of the ways we find meaning in life. Rick Warren has famously said, “God doesn’t waste a hurt.” According to Dr. As you do that, consider the following five experiences. If you were doing this for a community, you would follow the same approach. Look at your childhood experiences, teenage experiences, young adult experiences until you get to your current age. Examine the circumstances surrounding your birth. For example, to write your life stories, go through your life in stages from before you were born. To write compelling life stories as an individual or community, look back in time, and write key experiences down. Those who know where they are coming from are more apt to make the right decision about which path to take when they find themselves at a fork. Looking back on our history and writing our life stories is a powerful tool. I created the acronym, STORIES, to help people remember that.
These will uncover and create meaning in your life. In this post, I will give you seven elements that you should cover when you are doing an inventory of your life stories. Part of the DESIGN inventory is writing our life stories. When I help people find their purpose and calling, I use my DESIGN inventory to help people write down the key areas of their lives they need to consider. Suffering: by the attitude that we take toward unavoidable suffering.įrankl has said, “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms-to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” When we choose our way to respond to suffering, we create and find meaning in life.Relationships: by experiencing something or encountering someone.Work: by creating a work or doing a deed.According to the famed neurologist and psychiatrist Victor Frankl, we can discover meaning in life in three different ways: Key elements of our stories help us find meaning in life. It brings joy and fulfillment to their lives it enhances their relationships and improves their lives. Living one’s purpose enables a person to do both meaningful and gainful work.
That’s why one of the major emphases of my calling is to teach people to find their purpose and live it out. That’s also crucial for our personal growth and development. Finding our purpose or calling for every season of our lives and fulfilling it is the best way to contribute our greatest life, work, and leadership to the world.
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