Live Limitless with Raam
“The World’s Most Value-packed Newsletter Life-letter to WIN at Work, Life, and Home” with:
3 big ideas, tips or strategies
2 stories, quotes or case-studies
1 critical question to ask yourself
Live Limitless: Biggest Fan, Fire Walkers, Ikigai, Jewels & Campaign gone wrong!
read on LIFELETTER.RAAMANAND.COM | AUGUST 13, 2022
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3 Big Ideas, Tips or Strategies for this week
1. Your Biggest Fan
Take a few moments and think about your biggest fan. Now, go ahead and thank them for their attention.
2. Fire Walkers
If you are trying to do something extraordinary then find others who have done it before you. Seek out those ‘fire walkers’ and ask them how they did it and what advice they have for you. You will be surprised at the answers.
3. Ikigai
Find your Ikigai or your true essence by answering these four questions:
a. What do I love doing?
b. What am I good at?
c. What can I be paid for?
d. What does the world need?
The answer at the intersection of these four questions is your Ikigai.
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2 Stories, Quotes, or Case-Studies for this week
1. The Jewels
Once there was a very rich and greedy man. He loved and hoarded jewels.
One day a visitor asked to see them.
So the jewels were brought out, amid much expensive security, and the two men gazed at the wonderful stones.
As the visitor was leaving he said, “Thank you for sharing your jewels with me.”
“I didn’t give them to you,” exclaimed the rich man, “They belong to me.”
“Yes of course,” replied the visitor, “And while we enjoyed the jewels just the same, the real difference between us is your trouble and expense of buying and protecting them.”
(Thanks Jackie Carpenter, adapted from an original item in New Internationalist 137.)
2. Direct Mail Campaign
This is a true story. Some years ago a client engaged a consultant to help with a small postal mailing to the purchasing departments of blue chip corporations. The consultant sourced the list (which was provided on MSExcel) and drafted the letter. Thereafter the client was keen to take control of the project, ie., to run the mail-merge and the fulfilment (basically printing, envelope-stuffing and mailing).
The consultant discovered some weeks later that a junior member of the client’s marketing department had sorted the list (changed the order of the listed organisations in the spreadsheet), but had sorted the company name column only, instead of all columns, with the result that every letter (about 500) was addressed and sent to a blue chip corporation at another entirely different corporation’s address.
Interestingly the mailing produced a particularly high response, which when investigated seemed to stem from the fact that an unusually high percentage of letters were opened and read, due apparently to the irresistible temptation of reading another corporation’s mail.
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1 Critical Question to Ask Yourself
“In the last two years, what has become more important for you? What has become less important?”
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Raam Anand
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