Jim Collins gives us three questions to define our aspirations (actually, he gave it in the context of a company but it does work for us personally too!):
- What are your real core values and your real aspirations?
- What is the truth about the outside world?
- When you intersect your drive with your reality, what’s the truth about what you can distinctively contribute potentially better than anyone in the world?
Question 2 is absolutely essential to reality-check that our aspirations and core value can find resonance with the outside world (and respond to our basic needs too!). It’s certainly tough to have a clear view of the world beyond our usual bubble (and might require some help from other people with other point of view), but it’s absolutely critical.
These questions are very powerful. What’s your answers? What’s the reality check of your current aspirations like?
Quotes are from the foreword to the book The Greatest Business Decisions of All Times by Fortune Magazine editors
