The Life Purpose Podcast on Life Signatures Radio

There are benefits of engaging our brains over having to depend entirely on technology. I know it sounds weird, but it is much more valuable to number crunch with pen and paper than to use a calculator. There is essentially nothing wrong with a calculator. It is designed to help us get answers quickly. However, the person who is number crunching is growing the brain muscle more as compared to the one heavily relying on the calculator. In our day and age, we are abdicating the use of our brains and are overly dependent on technology. It's a silent epidemic. Listen to this.

Every time there is an epidemic in the earth, borders are shut and relief and medical agencies are on high alert. As the Corona virus rages in China, Russia has decided to shut down her border with the Chinese. It is an epidemic. But, folks, there is even a more dangerous epidemic that is silently raging the whole wide world. It is an epidemic caused by technology. We are so highly dependent on technology that we are no longer engaging our brains to think. It is scary. We need to wake up. Listen to this.

Technology is great. Many problems it's solved. Great increase in productivity, ease of life and so on. But there is a serious downside to it. Let me ask you a question. Are you more of a producer than you are a consumer of technology and it's products? The danger we have is our brains becoming increasingly disengaged as we overly rely on technology. We go to Google even before the brain is engaged. That's the danger. Listen to this.

When we are planning for the New Year or when we are setting goals, do we consider the responsibility that we have for: Our next generations? Humanity at large? Our thinking can be selfish and self-centred so much so that we do not think that we have a responsibility for the next generation. All it takes is for us to at least consider then acknowledge the fact that we are the pacesetters and trendsetters for them in life. If we do not do this kind of planning, we are giving them a raw deal, the same kind of a deal that we received from generations prior. I believe it is time for us to restructure our planning to include the next generations. Listen to this.

To think and to plan for the third and fourth generations is one sure way to set a legacy in motion. However, if we are only going to be concerned about our fleeting 80 years on earth, chances are that that's all we shall get. Legacy is something interesting...at some level, it is not something that you actively pursue. It is something that emanates as a result of something larger than survival that you were pursuing in life. The very place where you can get something of that nature is when you think and plan for the generations that are coming right after you. Considering to put things in place for them and building foundations through which they can excel and propagate what you started. Listen to this.

Thinking long and thinking big must be something that we should institute in our families. Think about this: For the most part, as we have been growing up, the consciousness with which we are approaching life has always been on ourselves. Seldom do we take time to not only think, but also to plan for the next generations. There could be many reasons, and probably we could easily blame the past generations for this. When we do, however, we realize that "we are it!". In other words, a few decades from today, the succeeding generations will be operating the exact same way we are. Something has to change. It starts with us. Listen to this.

Obviously, the person with few responsibilities will take it easy in life than the person with great responsibilities. When we talk about planning for generations to come, we are talking about deeper, more meaningful outlook in life than just having superfluous goals such as having a nice house and living in a great neighborhood. An outlook of three generations automatically changes things, especially the way we approach life. One thing that is birthed through this kind of planning is passion. We know of few family dynasties out there because we are myopic in our plans. We just plan for ourselves and that's it. Can we change this? Listen here.

Imagine if at birth, many aspects of your life in terms of basic needs had been sorted by your grandfather! What a thought! Scriptures tell us that a a good man leaves an inheritance for his children and their children! Half of life is spent trying to make a living that we seldom focus on leaving an impact in life. Will family planning offer a respite? Will we find solutions when we start planning for our children and their children? This is a serious thought. Listen to this.

Thinking. A laborious exercise so much so that few people really do it. When we plan and set goals for our lives, for the most part they are short term to medium term plans. The thought is that we shall always adjust our lives and plan more as events pan out in our existence. Therefore, we seldom think about the life our children will have AFTER school. Perhaps that's the furthest we dare think. How about we go a step further and think about their entire lives and that of our grand children too? That's family planning on steroids. Listen to this.

We live in a rather transactional dispensation where people want to quantify every interaction in terms of what they can get. It is even worse when we think of the benefits of our actions in the now. If not careful, this kind of transactional life makes us to become selfish and short sighted. However, if we can embrace just one virtue of care one for another, we stand a chance to reap perhaps not in the moment, but even later on in droves. I am not talking religion here, but I am talking brands, humanity, and even business. Listen to this.

We live in an ever increasingly digitized world. However, I can tell you that one of the most potent things that can never be digitized is what is responsible for our success. If you mentioned Zuckerberg, Gates, Obama, Trump or any other top performer in any niche in the world, you can be sure that they get ahead through the analog trait of thinking, planning and strategizing. This analog activity is the most potent pillar of success we have and it is a reserve of just one species in the universe: The humans. Any great company worth its salt will will not achieve what it has if there was no strategic planning, dreaming, and thinking. That should apply to individuals too. Listen.

The world today is moved along by mighty as well as tiny actions which are in themselves connected to one thing: Belief. Nothing of worth that we see today existed arbitrarily. Someone somewhere believed and that belief made them to take some action of sorts. Whenever someone says, "I believe...", the world stands at the precipice of change. A person's life will always be anchored by their belief system. Belief is much more critical than knowledge. We create cultures and traditions based on what we believe. Drucker said that culture eats strategy for breakfast. In other words, what I believe is much more powerful than what I know. Check this out.

We can always attain success by following conventional methods. In fact, someone said that success always leaves clues. So we can study and implement those clues and become successful. In other words, for the most part success is chronic, measured, deliberate and predictable. However, that is not the only way through which people succeed. There is one more way of attaining success, and that is through being "stupid". I know that sounds weird. The opposite of chronic is acute. In other words, you can break the norm and do something " stupid" in order to forge ahead. Listen to this.

When your breathe is taken away, almost always you want to reciprocate. You are so appreciative that you might consider it robbery not to be grateful. What goes on behind the scenes before a performance befitting taking our breathe away is what we ought to focus on. Blood, sweat and tears is what it takes, but when your audience gets the breathless treatment, you have earned your bread. You have pushed the limits of your potential, and you have set a marker for your future performance. Listen to this.

Life is an aggregate of the days we are alive. Whatever I am doing or not doing today is a direct contribution to the totality of how my life will turn out. The secret we have each day we are alive is to give 100% oxidation to our efforts. I have this concept: that interviews are not carried out in boardrooms. No. Each day, life is conducting an interview with the opportunities we have. What percentage we give in life today determines what percentage we get out of life. Rewards and actions are not that directly proportional, but more attracts more, and less attracts even much less. Listen to this.

December and January can be a season of upheaval to many people who have staked their lives on academics. In many countries in Africa, this is the time that examination results for primary and high school are released. It is common to see relatives pasting the achievements of their candidates all over social media. There is a large but silent percentage of others who have flunked. As many would call them unintelligent, I beg to differ. There is a different way to look at intelligence. Listen to this. c6rkb92z

Let's be honest. The road to attainment is not necessarily smooth, straight, and paved. We are always going to face twists and turns. That's why we need to have some kind of intelligence in dealing with down times. One of the greatest myths is that your actions in downtimes should only be those that lead to deliverance. Therefore if you have to take action, it has to be one that is directly offering respite. Nothing could be further from the truth. Listen to this.

There is one that scatters abroad and has plenty. There is another that hoards and still has little. Misers are people seldom fulfilled in life. Their hope is on things, commodities and cash. They are hell bent on protecting their turfs that life is a burden. If you are to be fulfilled in life, you will have to free yourself from the love of things and actually use your life to add value to others. Listen to this.

Religion is always going to be a controversial subject. It goes without saying. Most religious people will take offense with this but I will say it anyway: religion was never intended to be the source of fulfilment. It never will. If I was to choose between religion and work in terms of getting fulfillment, I will most definitely choose work. There is a higher chance to get fulfilment from work than from religion. Let's find out one more way to find fulfillment.

I am almost sure that what we did today, all of us as humans was to look for fulfilment in life, one way or another. But why is it that fulfilment can be elusive to us? Why is it that it is fleeting, just passing us by and leaving us empty? It could be because of the kind of focus we have in our lives. Yet, there are millions of people the world over who are experiencing real and authentic fulfilment. I have a feeling that this is one major way they do it. Listen in.

There is one thing that we all are looking for in life. Whether we are religious or agnostic, developed or developing, whatever our state in life, we all want fulfilment. No, we might not say it outright, but our actions and priorities will show it. However, as much as fulfillment is attainable for anyone anywhere, it is also an elusive thing in life. That's why we need to have some paradigm through through which we pursue fulfilment. Otherwise, what we call fulfillment will always be short lived. Here is one way to get started. Listen in.

"In a world of change, the learners shall inherit the earth, while the learned shall find themselves perfectly suited for a world that no longer exists." These are powerful words spoken by Eric Hoffer. The world is a changing. There is a new decade to conquer, a New Year to embrace. However, it shouldn't be true that the more things change the more they remain the same. It is one thing to have dreams and goals, but quite another to see them become our reality. There is this one simple place that is so intimate to all of us. That's where we begin. Listen to this.

One of the things we need to do with our mind is to stretch it. And one of the most fruitful ways to stretch our mind is to put it to work in downloading our future possibilities. To strategically position ourselves for the new decade, we shall need the mind to be stretched. We shall need to dream, prioritize and quantify our desires. Let us learn more here.

Author Dutch Sheets helps us clarify the power of dreaming. This is what he says: "Dreaming ignites creativity. The impossible is powerless against the relentless energy and creative imagination flowing from a dreaming heart. Dreams are pregnant with hope, persistence, ingenuity, and inventiveness—if you dream you will create. Contrarily, if you do not have dreams to pursue, you'll languish and stagnate in a sterile, uninspired, unimaginative, and uninventive world—exactly the way most people live!" Listen to this.

Everything successful bears fruit because it operates a system. The human body in a connection of intertwined powerful systems, so much so that we do not have to "think" to digest food for example. It just happens. If we shall be successful in this decade, then it is important that we have a system that is predictable in these uncertain times. It is a personal system, and it very much has to deal with us being the nucleus or the beginning point of everything operating. Just how do we install this system? Listen in.

New mindsets are needed if we are to strategically position ourselves for the best decade ever! The advent of a new decade is a massive opportunity for us to look forward to great things happening in our lives! What a chance. However, we have to be different and do things differently. It is possible to celebrate the New Year but then go right back in our old lifestyles, cultures and traditions. That will not help us in positioning ourselves to have a great decade. Listen to this one.

The new decade is up for the taking. However, old habits and cultures die hard. It is possible to give a mental assent to the New Year but still be steeped in the habits and lifestyles of the past. To position ourselves strategically for the new decade, we must be daring enough to choose a path. A husband, for example, might decide to pull all the stops to be "the husband of the decade". A leader might decide to use this decade to mould as many followers as possible. All in all, we need to choose a direction to take in this decade. What shall it be? Listen to this.

There will always be a reason behind our actions, whether they are big or small. That's why deciding to do something without clarifying the reason behind it is not such a good idea. Our lives have a thematic subconscious navigation system that guides our choices. It is important to learn what is made up of this navigation system. It is obviously a foundation of our success. Let's use this to build up our new decade of personal revolution. Listen to this.

Death is such a strong word. In some circles it is taboo to openly talk about death. Death perhaps scares every human being alive. And yet, at the advent of a new decade, we have an opportunity to learn from our own mortality. To reconcile ourselves to the reality of our frailty in the eyes of death is a wise thing. Death though has never fully silenced men and women who lived their lives to the fullest, who dared to be the best, most glorious and magnificent versions of themselves. Through their way of living, death has been swallowed up in victory and it's sting paralyzed by their legacies. Let's talk about your death today. Listen in.

Believe it or not, a New Year offers a psychological clean slate as well as a Window of opportunity to start life differently. So we are here today looking forward to greater things in our lives. Our thinking has to be radically different than it's ever been. We, at the very least, have to have hope that the prospects of the New Decade are better than they ever have been in our lives. Let's start there. Let's have our minds, emotions, heart and spirit switched on in agreement that this is the decade for our personal revolution. Listen to this.

Happy New Decade!! The next ten years are going to be as revolutionary as we intend them to be. We shall see tremendous disruptions in Financial Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Internet of Things. But can I tell you something? All these wonderful things are augmentations in that they are not the real deal. The real revolution is with the self, the individual, the you! That's why we have to be strategic about our plans for the decade. We need to leverage the psychological new dispensation and plan our best decade ever. So what shall it be? Where do we start? Listen to this.

The world is structured in such a way that nothing comes on a silver platter. If anything, we face great opposition every time we try to do something constructive. For instance, potential is one of the greatest powers we have as humans. However, the excavation of the same is always going to be hindered by different things. Here are at least 8 things that you should look out for. They could be hindering the deployment of your potential.

The world is symbiotic. We need each other. When we are to deploy our potential, perhaps the greatest help we can ever recruit is that of another human being. The way life is structured is in such a way that there really is no self made whatever. Everyone climbs on the shoulders of someone to stretch their potential. In this episode, we talk about the need for mentors and coaches in excavation of potential. Stay tuned.

Death Row. The small bridge between life and the next dispensation. Any time could be your time. I wonder what goes on in the mind of an inmate on death row. Nevertheless, you will find quite a few on death row who are "prepared" and ready to die. For the most part, they did cultivate their potential and that's why they are ready. Let's listen to this and see the life of such a one.

One of the greatest mistakes the world over is meddling. It is very rare to find people who are sticking to what they are supposed to do in the long haul. In excavation of potential, we cannot be doing piecemeal work in a haphazard manner and expect to make it. That's why we need to remain committed and focussed until we are successful. Listen to this.

As much as potential is a powerful word to both organizations and individuals, it is not something that is found lying on the surface. It is much deeper than that. For it to be excavated and deployed, some things have to be put in place. Richard Branson explained that if you are given something to do and you do not have the knowledge of doing it, do not pass it on. Take it and learn to do it. That is one of the most potent pieces of advice you can get about potential. Listen to this.

It's already established that we all have potential. I can tell you that if there is an investment that you and I need t make, it would be in our potential. It is a high return to bet on one's potential. There are several ways that potential can be excavated. In this episode, we look at the natural ways in which that potential can be excavated. Listen in.

One of the most powerful things on earth for any human is their potential. In order to have our potential lighted up, it is important for us to make the right choices. I can tell you this for free: if you are to make a choice that will reinforce your potential, make sure the choice you are making is filled with lots of resistance. There has to be pressure, discomfort and uncertainty. Listen to this.

The scary thing about potential is that it exists in each of us but we can easily fail to deliver on it. I mean, chances are that we could fail to manifest out boundless possibilities within us because of this and that. Whatever the case, we have to make sure that any hint of potential in our lives is acted upon fully and strongly. So the question is: How do we cultivate our potential? Listen to this.

Potential is such a powerful and vast topic. I have reason to believe that there is not a single human that doesn't have potential. Because we are creatures of purpose, it easily follows that the root of purpose is obviously potential. I have dared that if you could find a single human anywhere that didn't have potential, then I am ready to become an Atheist. This is a first of very many episodes on the subject. Listen in.

The subject of purpose is surreal. It is something so close to my heart. A few days ago, I came across a video on Tony Robbin's Instagram page about purpose. Although the video clip was rather short, he shared that people should not be fixated on finding a single purpose... That there are many purposes to serve. I share my sentiments against that assertion in this episode. Listen in.

Rejection is obviously one uncomfortable thing that we face in life each day. It's even found in close knit relationships such as between lovers, between parents, between work mates and so on. When it does happen, one might be tempted to think low of themselves. Here is why the power of context will help you to get a "Yes" always, or it will help you to put a "No" in its right perspective. Listen in.

The reason for the existence of human beings on the face of the earth is productivity. To be productive is to do what we were intended to do in the first place. It is one thing to have activities going on, but quite another to be productive. In this episode, I summarize the 5 steps that will make you as productive as you were intended to be. Listen to this.

You know, some of the top performers in life are so exemplary that at times we forget that they are human. I listened to TD Jakes one day narrating how he was discouraged and felt like giving up. From his story, today we shall learn one more thing that causes us to be productive in life. Check it out.

To be productive means to do the right thing at the right time and in the right way. If you are interested in being productive, then you will have to come to terms that you might need to do things outside of the norm. This will need one to dare mighty things, and at times to look stupid on doing what is not generally accepted. Listen to this.

Productivity is something that is intended for every human being. That means that there is an expectation for us to be valuable in life. The question is, how do we get that done? Most definitely, there is a great need to have insight into all the activities that we are doing. Why do we do the things that we do? The why of doing something can be a great motivational force. Listen to this.

When it falls on you to be productive, can you be counted on? If someone asked you about the productivity of your life at the moment, what will you tell them? Where will you draw the evidence and the strength for your productivity? Every action we take must have some insight so we can be as productive as we would like to be. Find out the first step to being really productive in life in this episode.

There are very few reasons why we are all alive. Probably, there is only one major reason for us being on earth, and that is so that we can be productive. Productivity though is not necessarily activity. In other words, all the activity that we could be involved within life could not necessarily lead to an effective and productive life. In here, there is one major definition of productivity that you need to look at. Listen in.

Life might not be as complicated as people think, or as they make it be. It turns out that life can be pretty simple to live...but that does not necessarily mean that it will be easy. Decisions are at the centre of productive life of meaning. There could be very many decisions that one can make in their life, but ultimately, the key decisions to make might not be that many. They could be as few as three simple decisions. Let us see what these are. Listen in.

Perhaps the greatest decision you can ever make in life is the decision for a life of purpose. It is not the only decision thought that can shape your destiny. Purpose is a high road that constricts and focuses a visionary on a few things to be achieved. How they will be achieved is the second biggest decision you will ever make. The essence of life signatures is to leave a mark behind. Here is the second biggest decision you can make in life. Listen in.