Skilled for Life
Note: This article is updated at Skilled for Life.
A while back, a colleague challenged me to find something simple and sticky for the big idea behind Sources of Insight. After trying several phrases, here’s the one that stuck:
Skilled for Life
He liked it because it had punch. It also had a play on words, and you could read it two different ways.
I like it because it captured the big idea behind Sources of Insight. The whole purpose behind the site is to help as many people improve the quality of their life as possible.
With skill.
I’ve found that skills can make or break somebody’s chance for success. And, I don’t just mean from a career perspective. To be effective in all areas of our life, we need skills across several domains:
- Mind
- Body
- Emotions
- Career
- Finance
- Relationships
- Fun
Skilled for Life is meant to be a very simple phrase, with a very intentional outcome:
Equip you with the skills you need to survive and thrive in today’s world.
It’s all about personal empowerment.
Not everybody gets the right mentors, or the right training, or the right breaks. So Sources of Insight is designed from the ground up to be your personal success library that helps you make your own breaks, create your opportunities, and own your destiny.
How?
By sharing the world’s best insight and action for work and life. By providing you with very real skills for mastering emotional intelligence, intellectual horsepower, creative brilliance, interpersonal relationships, career growth, health, and happiness (yeah, happiness is a skill you can learn). And by providing you with principles, patterns, and practices for a smarter, more creative, and more capable you.
To give you one simple example of how happiness is a skill, let me tell you about the three paths of happiness according to Dr. Martin Seligman:
- The Pleasant Life
- The Good Life
- The Meaningful Life
You can think of them like this: The Pleasant Life is all about pleasures, here and now. The Good Life is about spending more time in your values. The Meaningful Life is about fulfillment by helping the greater good, using your unique skills. It’s giving our best where we have our best to give, and moving up Maslow’s stack.
When you know the three paths of happiness, you can more effectively build your happiness muscles. For example, you can Discover Your Values, so that you can spend more time in them, and live life on your terms.
That’s just one example of how you can improve your self-efficacy with skill.
There is a vast success library of everything from inspirational quotes to inspirational heroes, as well as principles, patterns, and practices for skills to pay the bills and lead a better life. Sources of Insight is a dojo of personal development, and your jump start for realizing your potential.
I invite you to check out the following page on Sources of Insight, where I share what Skilled for Life is all about:
Skills empower you.