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Purpose 1.0 – NARRATIVE

Eric

Your PERSONAL, FINANCIAL, and Fundamental Purpose Narrative

This all will look—and even feel—like a “Writing Drill,” but it’s far more than that.

Your Purpose Narrative is essentially a program you will create with intention.

A program designed to replace your current one—the one that was not designed with the specific intent to enable you to use your passion to harmoniously fulfill the financial, professional, and personal purposes you were created for.

This is a program that, once embodied, will have you putting every bit of your time, energy, creativity, and currency into what actually matters. Your purpose.

[_] Writing Your Personal Purpose Narrative

You’ll notice that this sample narrative is whole and complete, including a list of offers as examples.

You can skip the “Offers” part for now if needed.

Those offers are designed and constituted during the 5th strategy, “Passion,” as you’ll need the background and learning produced by the strategies that come before it.

[_] Read this sample narrative.

[_] Review the “Plot Mountain” narrative on this page HERE.

[_] Write your purpose narrative.

[_] Fully embody your personal and financial NARRATIVE by updating and reading it daily until:

1: You’re satisfied with it

2: It is fully memorized and embodied. “You are what you remember to be”

This is not “Academic”

This isn’t about getting the writing done and moving on. The writing is there so that you can embody your purpose in a way that will allow you to fulfill it.

The clearer and more present you are to your purpose, the more valuable and powerful you will be in your own life as well as in the lives of others.

Sample Purpose Narrative Start

To ensure that I’m a good steward of the time, energy, creativity, and currency that God has entrusted to me,

I’ve IDENTIFIED all of the professional, financial, and personal PARTS of life which make up the purpose for which I was created.

For each PART of life I create or adopt a philosophy that allows me to…

…design, build, deploy, measure, and modify the strategies, structures, tools, and tactics that convert the complexities of life from sources of distraction and diffusion into sources of purpose, passion, and power.

Now this may seem “Over the top” to some, but this is actually a humble matter of pragmatic survival.

We live in the most competitive, dynamic, and technologically driven environment that this planet has ever seen, which means two things.

FIRST: To earn a living and care for those I love and lead, I must operate at my highest level of self as an individual as well as my highest level of self as a member of the teams and communities I do life with.

SECOND: Because of the competitive nature of the environment we live in, adequate pensions and dignified levels of lifelong health care must now be self-funded.

This means I have a deca-million dollar liability on my personal balance sheet that…

…needs to be handled before the age of 60 so that I can continue to live an inspiring and dignified life. A life that upholds the respect of those that matter to me most so that I remain a relevant and empowering force through every phase of their lives.

This means I’m committed to producing:

$400K a year income to live from +
$2M a year to save so that I have
$15M passively invested by age 60 so that 4% withdrawals will produce
- $600K a year, which will allow me to
- Care for myself as well as the people that I love who have failed to plan and care for themselves

Total: Annual $2,440,765

Monthly $203,397

To produce this revenue, while living a good life, requires that I operate within my passions to…

…design, build, deploy, measure, and modify highly valuable offers of help to other humans.

The current breakout:

Offer A: Quantity X Price = $XXXXXX

Offer B: Quantity X Price = $XXXXXX

Offer C: Quantity X Price = $XXXXXX

Offer D: Quantity X Price = $XXXXXX

Offer E: Quantity X Price = $XXXXXX

Total = Annual Income Requirement: $XXXXXX

To produce these objectives I will leverage SEAL Performance Principles to execute the Conventional & Unconventional strategies to…

…prioritize by power, the philosophies, strategies, structures, and tactics that I’ll design, build, deploy, measure, and modify to fulfill the above objectives in a way that continuously produces more power—time, energy, creativity, and currency—than I put into it.

Conventional Strategies

Purpose: Professional

This is a “Fundamental List”. Meaning that it applies to all businesses.

Design, Build, Deploy Offers Of Help

Strategy & Planning

Marketing & Sales

Reporting & Analytics

Finance - Accounting - Bookkeeping

Leading

Managing

Following

Highly Functioning Teams

Operational Excellence

Equipment - Applications - Devices

Strategic Situational Awareness

Legacy & Continuation

Unconventional Strategies

Phase 1: Strategic Transformation

Strategic Transformation – is to have a set of philosophies, strategies, tools, training, and tactics that, when repeated, will transform you into the type of person who can use your passion to harmoniously fulfill your financial, professional, and personal purposes—now and during the 30+ years of old age when you can no longer work.

Purpose – is to know the 50+ parts of your professional, financial, and personal life that you were created to care for, as well as the positive and negative impacts each has on your ability to live a good and dignified life now and during the 30+ years of old age when you’ll no longer be able to work.

Mastery is the ability to design, build, deploy, measure, and modify philosophies, strategies, tools, training, and tactics in a way that allows you to fulfill your intended outcomes.

Expert at Expert – To obtain the ability to design, build, deploy, measure, and modify the Strategic Operating Practices that produce and maintain the positive impacts of a purpose fulfilled, as well as eliminate and prevent the negative impacts of a purpose unfulfilled.

The Only Easy Day Was Yesterday is a way of being that increases our ability to fulfill and maintain the intentions of current strategies in a way that allows us to fulfill and maintain the intentions of new and more powerful strategies at a pace greater than the changes within our environment. pt

Passions are flow state-generating strategic operating practices that produce the tangible products and services that help other human beings care for what impacts their ability to live a good life at a level equal to or greater than the amount of value to others that our financial purpose dictates.

Phase 2: Luminary & Leadership

Phase 2: Luminary and Leadership marks the shift from individual effort to influential leadership. The individual begins building a team not simply to scale their output but to multiply their impact—and their freedom.

Their focus turns to producing outcomes that compel others to follow. Their presence becomes sought after in both personal and professional settings. People seek their guidance and are eager to accept their offers of leadership—not because of personality, but because of their accomplishments.

Allies & Stakeholders – Whose trust, respect, and attention do you need?

Targeting – What visible accomplishments would earn the trust, respect, and alignment of your allies and stakeholders?

Tribe – A group of two or more people who, when together, automate, protect, and accelerate both the current and future ability to use their passion to harmoniously fulfill the personal, financial, and professional purposes for which they were created.

Freedom – How much time, energy, creativity, and currency is required to produce those accomplishments?

Victory Production – Tangible results that prove your capability, validate your vision, and earn the ongoing trust and respect of your stakeholders.

Phase 3: Kingdom Builder

Kingdom Builder – A person who is creating an environment that enables others to use their passions to harmoniously care for their personal, financial, professional and spiritual purposes.

Luminary Creator – Recruits, trains, and develops others to produce visible outcomes that earn influence through accomplishment rather than personality.

Strategic Situational Awareness – The ability to accurately assess current challenges and opportunities in order to protect your purpose, team, and environment before taking action.

Highly Functioning Team – A coordinated set of philosophies, strategies, tools, training, and tactics that ensures each member progresses through the strategy in a way that enables and accelerates the progress of others on the team.

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