TRIP TIP#31 “Understand Yourself and What Drives You”
Keith Renninson • June 29, 2021
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TRIP TIP#31 “Understand Yourself and What Drives You”
Hi, this is Keith Renninson “The Tenacity Expert”
professional speaker & author of the award-winning book “Tenacity, You Don’t Have to Get Lost in Nepal to Find Yourself, But it Helps!”. I’m here with my next installment of my TRIP Tips for the financial services professional. Remember that TRIP is an acronym for TENACITY, RESILIENCE, IMAGINATION, AND PURPOSE.
This is the first episode on Purpose and will be a little longer than usual, and I’m excited, so, lets’ get started!
Since I live in a philosophical type of brain, discussions about Purpose are near and dear to my heart. I love to philosophize. I truly believe that finding your purpose is key to a happy life.
Without it, life is narrow, selfish and vane. Purpose gives you a place to go to outside the inner vision of your day and see it for what it is. The next ten TRIP tips are for finding and implementing your life of Purpose, and that of your clients.
When you get right down to it, what actually drives you? Is it family, charity, art, love, money, Adrenalin, wanderlust, music, food, friendship, knowledge, spirituality, or something else? Finding your purpose isn't always easy. Mine has come and gone in many of the forms that I just mentioned and were often spun off from some other endeavor...nothing in life ever runs in a straight line. But, “seeking” your purpose is the first step and it comes with a lot of self-examination. Generally, that starts with answering some of the basic questions we’ve covered in previous TRIP Tips.
Who are you? What drives you? How can you be better? Where do you want to go and why?
Unfortunately, the answers change with time, so we need to keep asking the questions to make sure we are living our best life possible.
For a long time in my life, I was like a pinball. You've played with an old-fashioned pinball machine I'm sure. The ball gets batted around striking many obstacles, never going in a straight line to success. I was like that. Not really planning anything. But when I learned to do some self- examination and ask the right questions, my life improved dramatically.
In your communication with your clients, and utilizing my TRIP System, you need to ask the hard questions. You need to drill down to find their purpose in hiring you and how they see that purpose playing out during their lifetimes. Ours is a serious job, and we must do this work on ourselves earnestly before we do it with the people who put their trust in us to do the job well for them. It’s food for thought for sure.
See you next time, and in the meantime, ask yourself the hard questions about your purpose in life, your life philosophy if you will, and see what the answers look like. Once you do this, you’re ready to ask them of your clients.
Goodbye!
Keith......
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This is the second in a series of four on team building with TRIP. Remember, in my last blog I shared that it would be performed in reverse with “purpose” first and now we will implement the “imagination” section.
Imagination is probably the most fun of the character traits of TRIP. I love it because I can immerse myself in creativity and play!
How can TRIP help with team building you ask? By using it backwards! Huh? Yup, we will start with “Purpose” instead of Tenacity. The series will move from purpose to imagination, to resilience, and lastly to tenacity. When you look at TRIP from this reverse perspective it becomes clear that it flows naturally in team building and task completion. As with any project you must know your purpose first, so that’s where we will start.
