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TRIP TIP #32 "Purpose Begets Wisdom!"
Keith Renninson • Jul 07, 2021
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TRIP TIP #32 "Purpose Begets Wisdom!"
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!
Sometimes wisdom comes from experiencing different purposes. I was big on charity volunteerism for a long time. Each non-profit had different purposes and I adapted each one as my own for a period of time. They were all wonderful, caring, and giving organizations, and I was a good leader, but after working with many charities, I learned a new purpose for myself and moved on to other activities. We can give of ourselves only so much before we need to give to ourselves. Balance in giving and receiving is often a hard wisdom to learn.
Since each of you will have many clients with a multitude of purposes they are trying to meet, you must be solidly grounded in your purpose so as not to get too involved with theirs. Over the years I found myself thinking and worrying about my client’s hours after I’d left the office. I adopted the practice of shutting down the client thinking when I closed the door to my office at the end of the day and focused my thoughts on myself and family when I opened the door to my home.
I gained the wisdom to do this after more than a few heated discussions with my wife about “Where is your mind, cause it’s surely not here with me?”. A happy wife means a happy life!Well, that’s it for this installment, I hope you have some new ideas on how to proceed. Remember to take a TRIP for a lifetime, not a trip of a lifetime.
See you next time, and in the meantime, look for the wisdom in your decisions and interactions with your clients and relationships.
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.
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