Ep. 28: Unfolding A Noble Cause - John King

John: [00:00:27] what occurs to you about that? Knowable. Cause to me means our purpose, my purpose. So what I'm thinking now is to foster an environment to serve my purpose. So what am I doing to create an environment where that purpose can thrive and grow

Eric: exist?

John: Yeah. There's something in the background about that, particularly when it says unfolds the noble cause I'm towards that end of the phrase that is about fulfillment.

On Wednesday we asked the question, what is my highest aim? That is a question that is asking that what is that would fulfill

so fulfilling by the unfolding of the, a noble cause of some sort, what is it that would be. In your life

that would be fulfilling to you as a human [00:01:27] being, as a woman, as a student or a scholar.

Eric: It's so hard to distill that to one thing.

John: Yeah. And you have that's your focus on a certain sense. You know what I mean? You're headed, you're barreling down the road of life.

I don't know that you've got the headlights on,

you know what I'm saying?

Not quite well. If I fulfilled what my life would be over, I wouldn't be fulfilled. It would be satisfied, but it would have been a life of meaning,[00:02:27]

not an easy question.

So many things that would be fulfilling.

Eric: And the first thing that came to mind would

John: be my career, just growing my practice. And then the second. Starting a family to two very different things. Both richly fulfilling. Yeah. In the world of, is it possible to have it all? Is it possible to have it all? Is it possible to now fulfillment?

Like in both areas and even more maybe of course. That's our point of view. That's our stand in the matter is that yes, it is possible to be fulfilled in all of those areas, family.

Ultimately what's a tribe. A tribe is a family. Anyway, it's a family by design [00:03:27] and your career, as it unfolds, if you were unfolding the noble cause of your career, what would that be? Like

amazing

Eric: feeling.

John: Yeah. And I think Phil with contribution. Yeah. Being of service.

I can hear it. Yeah. So that's what the. Background questions are about, the, in the inquiries it's too, ticketless into just considering that if you spent, if you actually allowed yourself to inquire for 10 seconds a day, that would be a lot compared to the average person, particularly when you know, you're unfolding something.[00:04:27]

And then it's really the code is that it's about fulfillment. The secret code is that it's about fulfillment.

That's an advantage to know that. So if I asked Carlos, what is fulfillment to him, working with his kids, I'm going to get a completely different answer, but it's still going to be one who contribution. And one of service, if I ask Kevin what would be fulfillment in his world in his career, I'll guarantee you that it's going to be one of contribution and service, because that's what we're designed for.

That's what leadership is designed. Leadership is not designed for the goodies. Leadership is designed for the service and the contribution that you're providing for others, [00:05:27] maybe in the next generation,

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