why are you here? find your purpose - brian gryth

Why are you here? Find our purpose

Brian Gryth

@briangryth

Why?

Why are you here today?

The reality is we are not short on problems . . .

The Homeless

Climate Change

Crime

Education

Immigration

The Economy

We all have particular issues that drive us.

We call these things . . .

Our purpose.

Our mission.

These are also our why . . .

Starting with Why?

People don’t buy what you do. They buy why you do it.

Racial inequality

Was the issue . . .

“one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. - 1963

Was the issue . . .

Leadership in Space

“because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.”John F. Kennedy - 1962

Both of these leaders had a result they wanted to achieve

But they had a higher purpose, a why, that inspired others to achieve that result

If you take a man as he should be, you make him capable of becoming what he can be.

Viktor Frankl - 1972

To take society as it should be, and make it capable of becoming what it can be.

Our job is . . .

Because they did!

Brian Gryth - brian.gryth@opencolorado.org – Twitter @briangryth