Behavior Must Serve A Meaningful Purpose For People To Come Together

PutitinperspectiveWhen people come together, they need a very good reason to stay together.  Without that reason, they tend to allow things to fall apart.  Entropy is the scientific word for that – the movement towards chaos.   Quit taking care of your room, and it becomes chaos.  Ignore what gets placed on your desk, and it will become a complete mess. Fail to attend to your teeth, your weight, your…well, you name it, left to its own, with no reason to drive it forward, everything eventually falls apart.

All behavior is purposeful.  While our bad habits may have outlived our good intentions, we learned them at a time in our lives when they served at least some purpose in our survival.  New behaviors tend to be acquired by us in pursuit of higher purpose.  We want to have a successful business, so we learn new habits of organization.  We want to have a happy marriage, so we learn new habits of communication.  We want to have more friends, so we learn new habits of relating.

The person who wants to get people to Click! with each other must hold the focus for them .  Like the Statue of Liberty,they must hold aloft the torch that says ‘Here it is, the big idea, the grand ideal, the meaningful opportunity.  Follow me!’

If you want to be one of those people, you must create a compelling idea of what is possible that is attractive enough to draw people to it, and then hold it up as the focal point for their attention.

Please leave a comment below about how you hold the focus for the people in your life!

Be well,

Rick

 

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