Who are You When You're Being Great?

“Passion Catalyst” Curt Rosengren wants to help people find the career that “lights their fire.” In his blog, The Occupational Adventure, he recommends approaches, attitudes, and tools that will help keep you focused on your goals.

Curt recently read and recommended my first book, Putting the Tarot to Work, noting that the book has great ideas for getting “broader, deeper, more creative perspective[s]” on career and business issues.

While visiting his site, I stumbled on his reference to a jewel of an article by Lisa Haneberg of Management Craft: open-ended questions concerning the topic, “Who are you being when you are great?”

Questions include “What are you thinking? How are you feeling? How do you begin the day? What does your voice sound like? What can you achieve?”

To these, Curt's article adds: “How do you define great? How are you being when you’re great? What’s stopping you from being great more often?”

Right away, I saw that these great questions could be adapted into a brainstorming spread – an exercise in creative thinking that could help you glimpse your own greatness and achieve that state more consistently!

From the Bright Idea Deck (or a Tarot deck), pull six cards, arranging them in a pyramid:

- one card on the top row
- two cards on the middle row,
- three cards on the bottom row.

The cards represent the answers to the following questions:

Card One: “Who are you when you’re being great?”
Card Two: “How do you work or act when you’re being great?”
Card Three: “How do you think or feel when you’re being great?”
Card Four: “What’s your personal Key to Greatness?”
Card Five: “What’s an obstacle to your achievement of Greatness?”
Card Six: “What’s one small step toward Greatness you can take today?”

Investing just ten minutes in this reading can make a huge difference in your day: enhancing your mood, focusing your energies, and providing you with a vivid picture of your own Best Self. Give it a try, and let me know how it goes!