“No! Do what”?, I ask, stunned.
“You did that on purpose, didn’t you”, is the cry we’ve heard growing up, as our friend fumes about something we actually didn’t do on purpose.
In a much softer example, people often wonder why I use lower case letters in my name?
“Are you just not careful enough”?
Nope. I’m not only careful, but also purposeful.
I’m teaching our son the value of doing things “on purpose”.
If you don’t do important things on purpose, you are faced with two probable outcomes:
- What you decide to do happens by default
- What you do isn’t as good as you are capable of
Humility is a very important value for my family. Being human automatically predisposes us to not be humble.
To combat the human tendency to get sucked into society’s norms and “keep up with the Jones’s”, I purposefully use lower case, in a simple act of habit.
It grounds me, so to speak, in a critical success factor.
Walt Disney taught me this – being purposeful. The Disney Organization doesn’t want to risk two things happening. The same two things I worry about for my son.
Carpe diem, jungle jeff 🙂