Clarity Precedes Mastery.
Hanging in the Auckland airport eagerly waiting for my connecting flight home to Calgary. For the past two weeks I’ve been at Curve’s New Zealand office planning new feature designs and working on the early stages of new product we’ll be releasing code named “social butterfly”.
I love coming over here because it gives me an opportunity to temporarily get away from the daily chaos of being in a fast-growth company and regain clarity around why we’re doing what we’re doing and how we’re doing it.
Clarity is power, and taking genuine time to reflect on where we’ve come and where we’re going is the first step to realizing that power. Clarity is at the root of any great achievement, no matter how small or large, and in many cases is more important than luck, skill or talent. As human beings we have the remarkable ability to achieve nearly anything we set our minds to but many times fail to do so because we don’t choose to set our minds to anything.
Clarity is really a dream on steroids. It is the ability to take an intention, dream or idea and articulate it in a way that is so precise it might as well be real. It’s the process of defining exactly what you want, how it will happen, and when.
So on that note, lets chill out, put down our blackberries, iPhones and twitter for a second and take some time to reflect on exactly what it is we want in our lives and organizations.
The last thing any of us want to do is find out we spent our lives climbing to the top of the wrong mountain.
