12 Skills For Life
This project is focused on one question—What is the most effective strategy for living a life of meaning and fulfillment that contributes to the flourishing of your community?
This is a question that everyone wants the answer to, but no one ever discusses out loud. Our mission is to build community, culture, and belonging by having a conversation about the quest to find the most effective strategy for living.
Here Are Some Conversation Starters…
Do you want to live a life of meaning and fulfillment that contributes to the flourishing of your community?
Do you want to rely on nothing more than luck and hope to bring meaning, fulfillment, and contribution into your life?
Do you want to be an adult human being who doesn’t have an effective strategy for living?
If you met someone who said they didn’t want to live a life of meaning, fulfillment, and contribution, would you want to be friends with them?
Which strategy have you been following so far? What strategy did you learn from your family? What strategy did you learn from your culture? What strategy did you learn from your professors? What strategy did you learn from your therapist? What strategy did you learn from your boss? How much meaning, fulfillment, and contribution have their strategies produced in your life?
What if the most effective strategy for living is to seek out the Adventure of Your Life? What if the Adventure of Your Life can be found in the quest to transform all of your talent into skill and peak performance? What if you could structure your days around that quest? What if you could structure your days for success?
What if you could show up each day with unshakable faith in yourself, audacity in the face of uncertainty, and integrity in the face of temptation and distraction? What if you could train yourself in a way that lets your mind and body know that your conscience is in charge of your decisions and actions? What if you could train yourself in a way that lets your ego, your id, and your self-doubt know that your conscience is in charge of your decisions and actions.
The quest to transform all of your skill into peak performance is a complex process with an indefinite timeline, and an uncertain outcome. What if you could master a set of skills that would allow you to simplify the process, accelerate the timeline, and stack the odds in your favor?
What if you could join a community founded on an ethos that says “I believe in your talent, and I can’t wait to see who you become. How can I help you develop the skills you need to unleash your true potential?” What if your community could be an external embodiment of your conscience, the voice that calls on you to be your most authentic, most courageous, most extraordinary self, and calls you out when you fall short? What if your community could be the external embodiment of your faith yourself during times of overwhelming fatigue and uncertainty? What if community and adventure are the very things that have been missing from your life?
Do you want your life to be an adventure?
Do you want to transform all of your talent into skill and peak performance?
Do you want to be part of a community that supports one another through the Adventure of Life?
What if today is the day everything goes right?
What if you could begin your adventure today?
What if you could find your community today?
Credo
“The function of man is to live not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time. ”
I will live the Adventure of My Life. I will answer the voice that calls me to be my most authentic, most courageous, most extraordinary self. That means transforming all of my talent into skill and peak performance. It means following my conscience, no matter the obstacle and no matter the sacrifice.
The most valuable resources in my life are my talent, my time, and my attention. I will not waste them, because wasted talent leads to regret, resentment, despair, and destruction. I will devote my time and attention to the optimal expression of my talent.
Through my quest for flow, I will find inspiration, meaning, fulfillment, and the contribution I can make to my community. I will complete my quest by developing unshakable faith in myself, audacity in the face of uncertainty, and integrity in the face of temptation and distraction.
Opposite Day, The Opposite Way.
We’re not trying to convince anyone. This is not a prescription. This is an invitation intended to help you make an informed decision. If “the Adventure of Your Life” and the “quest to transform all of your talent into skill and peak performance” sound corny to you, that’s perfectly fine. Before you make the decision to refuse the Call to Adventure, consider one more thing. Say the Credo the opposite way, and see how that feels.
I refuse the Adventure of My Life. I will ignore the voice that calls me to be my most authentic, most courageous, most extraordinary self. I don’t need to develop my talent, because skill and peak performance are stupid.
My talent, time, and attention have no value. I will waste them, because I am immune to regret, resentment, despair, and destruction. The optimal expression of my talent is not only insignificant, it is inconsequential.
Inspiration, meaning, fulfillment, and contribution are for suckers, and I ain’t no sucker. I won’t complete my quest, because I refuse to begin my quest. Faith in myself? Audacity? Integrity? No thank you.
Which credo sounds like the one you want to devote your days to?
Meet the Founder
I’m Coach Chris. I help people create the conditions for peak performance and wellbeing in their lives by defining their authentic, nonnegotiable priorities. That process usually begins with me pointing out the questions that no one ever bothers to ask.
In February of 2017, I made the decision to live the Adventure of My Life. I made that decision after decades of ignoring the Call to Adventure. When I ignored the Call, I could feel my talent going to waste, and those times of wasted talent and wasted opportunities invariably led to anxiety, depression, and even panic attacks. It took all of that despair plus a vision of deathbed regret and despair to wake me up. I don’t recommend waiting that long to answer the Call.
I made the decision to live the Adventure of My Life by devoting my time and attention to the quest for the optimal expression of my talent. The more time I devote to acquiring skills like audacity, faith, integrity, and flow, the more I find meaning, fulfillment, and contribution in my life. Developing the 12 Skills for Life has removed anxiety, depression, and panic attacks from my life. It is my most sincere intention that these tools move you away from a life of regret and despair, and move you toward a life of peak performance, community, and wellbeing. You are most welcome to our community. Please accept this invitation.
12 Skills For Life
“Hey, Coach, what are the 12 Skills for Life???”