This week marks the start of a new work rhythm in my role at Forever Projects.
So how do you best kick off a new season of work?
As Simon Sinek so wisely said… start with why.
Because why leads to how which leads to what.
When you study any kind of leadership – whether formally (where they give you grades and a certification after x years) or informally (where you’re choosing the resources and learning experiences for the growth journey yourself) it’s easy to underestimate the power of this word ‘vision’ that gets thrown around.
Vision implies that the person sharing this said vision can see.
They can see clearly and far off into the distance.
They’re neither longsighted nor shortsighted.
And if even a single human hears their vision of the future and tells at least one other person, this must mean their vision of the future is remarkable.
Exciting enough to remark upon.
Maybe this is marketing in the very best sense of that word.
Yesterday I had a beautiful conversation with my friend Amy who has a big vision of the future in Tanzania. A future where kids aren’t needlessly malnourished or abandoned. A future where the obstacles to keeping these kids with their biological families are removed. A future where them being adopted into non-biological families is a last resort.
This vision was what drew my wife Anna and I to believe that adopting our kids from the NGO she’d established a decade earlier was the very best version of the future they could hope for.
This vision of the future inspired us to share her dreams with our friends and family back in Australia. It lead to the first drops in what would become a waterfall of generosity that funded this vision spreading from family to family and then city to city across Tanzania.
This same vision is why I’m taking a punt at scaling down my maths teaching gig to scale up the difference we’re making as a fundraising community at Forever Projects.
I can’t wait to throw myself into this role throughout 2020.
And it all comes back to starting with why.
So over to you…..
Why are you doing what you’re doing?
What rituals and which people will remind you of your why along the way?
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