Purpose, Product, and Process
I just started reading Rick Weinheimer's book,
Move Your Chair: A Guide to Every Day Excellence.
What to, How to, and Why to.
After re-reading the first chapter, I felt inspired to share these thoughts.
Over the past dozen years, I've completed several running and triathlon events.
I'm not there to compete, I'm there to complete.
I'm there to participate and appreciate.
These events are a fun culmination of a season spent in training.
It's a way to celebrate the process of caring for my health every day.
To me, the ultimate purpose of all this training is to be
physically fit, feeling good, and being a good steward of this body.
Completing these events is a tangible product of all the daily training.
The every day process of daily training is the path that helps me feel healthy.
Showing up every day helps me build the identity of my choosing.
And I choose to be the type of person who cares for my physical body.
This identity I have chosen also reflects my mental and spiritual approach to life.
The type of person I've chosen to be mentally and spiritually is reflected in my daily practices.
The type of person who is
mentally and spiritually fit, feeling good, and being a good steward of this mind and spirit.
Showing up every day on purpose, with purpose, and for a purpose.
In Rick's book, he teaches about excellence, "achieving at the highest level possible over a long period of time."
His book is a guide to every day excellence.
And in this book, he talks about finding our purpose, receiving our product, and working the process.
The purpose is our why to.
The product is our what to.
The process is our how to.
So why do I want to be a good steward of my body, mind, and spirit?
I see three pretty clear reasons.
1. To live life well, being physically, mentally, and spiritually fit.
2. To self-actualize feeling joy and peace, physically, mentally, and spiritually, as I participate in life and appreciate life around me.
3. To be a good steward of this life by being transformed and renewed daily, and by loving my neighbors and this world that God so loved.
I find Rick's words to speak volumes of what it looks like to live life well.
To live a life of every day excellence.
We need a why, a what, and a how.
A purpose, a product, and a process.
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