9 - The Serenity Prayer

Getting to your Why

• https://hbr.org/2017/01/are-you-solving-the-right-problems

The Five Whys

• https://leadingbd.com/2016/05/the-five-whys-of-purpose

The Whys of Motivation

• https://alexchiri.com/2018/12/02/accept-gravity-and-let-go-of-your-anchors
• https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newTMC_5W.htm

Summary

1. In order to get serenity in life, try to figure out what are things that you can change, and then figure out how to change them
2. Figure out what you can’t change and try to just leave it in God’s hands and find peace about it.
3. Get better at trying to determine what those things are. That’s the Serenity Prayer.
4. Use the Give Why’s to help bolster your motivation, but also dig deeper, and re-frame the problem to know how you can better solve the problem.

Challenge

• This week, I try to put every problem you encounter into one of the two buckets, I can solve this, I can’t solve this, and see if you can get better perspective on what’s going on. Then on the things that you can’t solve, what are the things you can solve about it, even if you can’t solve the main issue.