PurposeFinder #6

1. Person: What do I value? Who do I want to be?

I value family most, both those I know and those to come (e.g., my children). I want to be the liberator of my family. I want my wife, my children, my parents, and all of those close to me to be free. I want them to be able to live the lives they want without being financial constrained. Ultimately, I want myself to be free but I put my family before me. I also want to be a man of God and help other people find themselves and live their lives through Jesus Christ.

2. Passions: What do I love doing and why?

I love marketing. I love advertising. I love communicating with future customers and helping them understand why the relationship should be mutually beneficial.

I love consumer insights. I love being able to take insights and turn them into strategies that create value for your customers whether that value is in the message, the product, the strategy, etc.

I love growing a business. I like taking something and making it larger than it was before.

I love interacting with people (when I’m in control).

I love all of it because it is fun, challenging, personally rewarding, and makes me feel like I am doing big things.

3. Problems: What social, science, technical, and/or personal question do I want to answer?

How do you help the black community improve who they are and how they are perceived?

4. People: Who do I want to serve?

My family.

My spiritual community.

Underprivileged minorities, specifically blacks.

5. Place: Where do I want to impact?

Same as above.

6. Pain: What am I trying to heal or positively impact?

Same as above.

7. Power: What motivates/inspires me?

My family.

Impacting my community.

8. Picture: What's my vision?

My vision is similar to number one. I see a world where my family is following their dreams, has all of their needs supplied, and has no financial concerns impacting their lives or their decisions.

9. Pioneers: Who are my models? Mentors? Guides?

My role models can be broken down into three stages and are interestingly enough there is no one individual.

My desire to impact family: My mom. She made so many sacrifices for family that I desire to do the same thing. Every millionaire I have met. They have set the stage to let me know that it is possible to provide for your family in the way I desire.

My spirituality: My mother. She has taught me what having a relationship with God is like.

My community: There is no one model, just a lot of people who are impacting the world around them.

10. Path: What are the steps? What are my short and long term goals?

My short term goals…

Family: Invest in a career that is exciting, challenging, rewarding, and lucrative. The knowledge and skills I learn in this career should set me up to be a successful entrepreneur in the future.

Spirituality: Invest in my spiritual growth. Pray daily, go to church weekly, and find spiritual mentors.

My community: Give back to my community. Serve as a mentor, and impact lives however possible.

My long term goals…

Family: Make at least $15MM through a successful startup (or series of startups) enabling my family and myself to do what we truly want to do and enabling me to be the father I want (go to my children’s games without having to ask for permission, take my family to visit the world, etc).

Spirituality: Serve in my church and my community as a spiritual mentor and spiritual role model. Live a Godly life that is true to how Jesus has called me to live.

My community: Start organizations that will impact underprivileged minority communities in a way like never before.

11. Pressures: What internal and external life forces are affecting me right now?

I am in transition. I am changing jobs, functions, industries, cities, states, cultures, environments, careers, everything. I don’t believe any force can hold me back, but that is what I am dealing with TODAY.

12. Positioning: What do I want to master? What do I want to be #1 in the world at?

I want to master being able to talk to my customers, identify their needs, and grow successful organizations/businesses. I want everything I touch to be gold; I want to be able to start an organization/business and it “pop!”

13. Potential: Why do I believe that I can do it? Why am I the one?

Because I believe God watches over me and gives me favor as long as I follow his will and his way. I try my hardest to do that and have so far been very successful.