Meet Me 2.0

 
by wili_hybrid

J.D published incredibly insightful yet very dense e-Book called You 2.0. The promise is simple but powerful:

• Success by design.
• Living your purpose.
• Living your values.
• Playing to your strengths. 
• Improved results.

It was enough for me to go through it and see where I stand. Meet Me 2.0!

Step 1 - Find Your Purpose

What’s my purpose in life?

What sticks with me is something that is related to distilling massive information into practical/pragmatic approach and spreading it as wider as possible. Something that goes along these lines (I truly believe I belong to Levite tribe as per my last name and according to my passion for teaching):

“When Joshua led the Israelites into the land of Canaan, the Levites were the only Israelite tribe who received cities but no tribal land "because the Lord the God of Israel himself is their possession".  The Tribe of Levi served particular religious duties for the Israelites and had political responsibilities as well.” - Wikipedia

Here is my purpose in life:

• Serve the masses by spread pragmatic practices.

I know that today religion and politics have very little in common with “pragmatic”. But I believe that back thenitI has a lot to do with practical guidance.

Step 2 - Find Your Why

Why do I do what I do?

While I am far from being a fatalist I strongly believe in my life purpose as it was set by Deity [read previous subtitle and the Wikipedia’s quote]. I tried many ways to express myself. The only true fulfilling way for me is sharing the experience with people and making them successful. That explains why I love so much consultancy – I am field software consultant working day and night with my customers to solve their small, medium, and supersized problems.

Step 3 - Find Your How

How do I get my best results … what’s the pattern?

Since I treat everybody as my customers – my family (my best and the first customer), my managers, my colleagues and friends, my real customers – I can safely apply the same pattern/approach to everyone:

• Understand and speak their language.
• Feel the pain.
• Offer the solution – do not prolong the problem.
• Grow together.
• Emotional Intelligence is your best friend – apply it constantly.
• Distill working patterns and reuse – AND SHARE THEM!
• Celebrate joint wins, analyze losses to avoid them in the future.
• Time is most precious and scarcest resource – prioritize it for investing in most impactful stuff that matters.

Step 4 - Find Your Values

What are my top 5 values?

I have chosen the following values from the list J.D. offers in his e-Book:

• Family Happiness
• Achievement
• Freedom
• Inner Harmony
• Personal Development

Step 5 - Find Your Strengths

• What are you really good at?
• What comes naturally for you?
• What activities make you feel great?

I have completed this exercise some time ago - Find Your Strengths, Know Your Life Purpose. I have reviewed the strengths I identified back then and it seems to stick so far:

• Achiever - You have a relentless need for achievement.
• Analytical  – Your Analytical theme challenges other people.
• Communication – You like to explain, to describe, to host, to speak in public, and to write.
• Focus  – “Where am I headed?”
• Arrange – You are a conductor.

Tagline

My tagline is “Take you life for a test drive”. No, it is not about crashing into a wall, it is about testing new ways, sticking with what works, tossing what is not.

My most motivational quote comes from Thomas A. Edison:

“The value of an idea lies in the using of it. “

Metaphors

Metaphor for me:

“I am Winston Wolf - I solve problems.” – Pulp Fiction.

Metaphor for life - You Are 95 And You Are Dying.

Practice This - Get Results

• Read J.D.’s You 2.0 – find out whether you are set for success or for failure.