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Laura speaks with change agents, entrepreneurs, investors, leaders, and donors to get them past the doubt and indecision that consign their great ideas to limbo.
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Resources Mentioned:
- Laura Gassner Otting – Laura’s website
- Limitless Life Assessment – This quiz will walk you through each of the four C’s: calling, connection, contribution, and control.
3 Key Points:
- Ignore everyone else in your life who is defining success; figure out YOUR definition and your calling.
- If you don’t have goals that excite you, then you are not setting your goals high enough.
- Figure out what you want and how you define success, and then lean into it.
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Audio Masterclass Show Notes
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- Today’s Audio MASTERCLASS: How to Carve Your Own Path and Live Your Best Life with Laura Gassner Otting
- [01:30] – Laura shares something interesting about herself that most people don’t know
- Went to computer camp when she was thirteen years old, where she learned how to program Atari computers.
- [02:26] – A lot of people think happiness comes from success, but where does happiness come from if not from success?
- We think that if we check all the boxes along the path, then we will be successful and be happy.
- In her twenty years of interviewing people, she was struck by the dichotomy that success didn’t always equal happiness.
- A lot of times you are just checking all the boxes along someone else’s path to someone else’s success.
- [03:56] – What can we do to fix this?
- Ignore everyone else in your life who is defining success.
- Figure out YOUR calling. The thing you care about more than anything else in this world.
- “Your calling” is a gravitational pull for something that is larger than yourself.
- Your purpose is what matters to you.
- [06:10] – How does one know they’ve found their purpose?
- Laura firmly believes that if you don’t have goals that excite you, then you are not setting your goals high enough.
- The idea behind her book Limitless is that if we are constrained by somebody else’s definition of success, then we are never going to be insatiably hungry
- For her it’s a question of, “Am I going to move people today to make a change in their life?”
- [09:49] – Why are purpose and meaning such hot topics right now?
- By 2025 millennials are going to make up 75% of the US Workforce, which is a huge number.
- Millennials care deeply about purpose, connection, meaning, and matter.
- A recent study by Stanford University says that a third of Americans over the age of 50 are looking for more meaning in their last career.
- Gen X is caught between raising children and aging parents
- The best entrepreneurs are not the ones sitting in their dorm room, but those who are mid-career because they know what matters most to them.
- [12:35] – What are some people saying about millennials that you are observing?
- A lot of people saying that millennials don’t really care, but the truth is millennials are the ones driving the conversation about purpose.
- [14:55] – Can we just lean in more and hustle harder in order to find happiness?
- She started her last business when she had a six week old baby.
- That business turned out to be successful.
- This unflinching definition tells us that we have to do what other people think is the way to do it.
- Despite being the CEO of her company and phenomenally successful, she still wasn’t happy.
- She realized that her problem was not how she achieved her success, but how she defined her success.
- Laura encourages us to figure out what we want and how we define success, and then lean in to that instead.
- 17:50 – A timeout to thank our sponsor, ZipRecruiter!
- [17:54] – You have said the word Limitless multiple times today; will becoming Limitless bring work-life balance?
- Work-life balance is one of those insidious crimes against humanity.
- She would rather see people create work-life alignment.
- The first piece is finding your calling – something you care about more than anything else.
- Second is connection – it’s all about the work
- Third is contribution – it’s about you.
- Lastly control: “does the work I’m doing allow me to have specific control over the amount of connection and contribution I put towards my calling?”
- [20:35] – What if you aren’t ready or able to make a change right now?
- Take the Limitless Life Assessment – there are 60 questions, and it will walk you through each of the four C’s: calling, connection, contribution, and control.
- [24:12] – What’s a process we can follow to become limitless?
- Most entrepreneurs have control, because they have a lot of specific decisions in their life.
- As an entrepreneur it’s easier to become limitless because you already have the mindset that you have control.
- Go back and continue to say: “Is this still my calling?” “Do I have the right amount of connection?” “Is this contributing to my life?” “Do I still retain the control that I wanted when I first got in to this?”
- [28:52] – Parting piece of guidance
- Ask yourself these questions: “Are you happy?”, and “What’s making you happy?”
- What is the goal you have? What would make your success be meaningful? What would make your work matter?
- Laura Gassner Otting – Laura’s website
- Limitless Life Assessment – Take Laura’s quiz that will walk you through each of the four C’s: calling, connection, contribution, and control!
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