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.
Your life is a series of days, and each day is a series of decisions. Decisions begin with questions, and the world is filled with distractions. So, you need a set of questions that keeps your decisions and actions aligned with your priorities in the face of daily temptation and distraction. Questions like…
Who are you? And what do you want to do about it?
What is the quest that you would love to devote your time and attention to everyday?
What is the biggest, most important problem you can solve with your talent and skill? And what’s your plan to solve it?
What is the loss that must be avoided at all costs?
Do you want to live the Adventure of Your Life?
Do you want to live a life of meaning, fulfillment, and contribution?
Do you want to live your life with unshakable faith in yourself, audacity in the face of uncertainty, and integrity in the face of overwhelming temptation and distraction?
What is the most effective strategy for living the life that you envision?
Here Are Some Conversation Starters…
The Credo To Start Your Day
“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 unique 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 to live 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 begins with asking the questions that we never bother to ask during polite conversation. Questions like “who are you, and what do you want to do about it?”
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 that 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 resentment, to wake me up. I don’t recommend waiting that long to answer the call.
I am living the Adventure of My Life by devoting my time and attention to mastering my craft. The more time I devote to acquiring skills like audacity, faith, integrity, and flow, the more I find rewards like meaning, fulfillment, and contribution. Developing the 12 Skills for Life Framework has removed anxiety, depression, and panic attacks from my life, and replaced them with peak performance and wellbeing.
If you find yourself in a situation where you can feel your talent going to waste, if those circumstances have left you dealing with anxiety, depression, panic attacks, or other symptoms of despair, it is my most sincere intention that the 12 Skills for Life tools move you toward a life of peak performance, belonging, 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???”