| I'm a trekkie - I know what the "T" stands for in | | | | apart without me" or "No one else will get it done |
| Captain James T. Kirk, I know where he was | | | | like I can". Whether this is, in fact, true is |
| born and how he cheated his way through the | | | | irrelevant in the face of believing that it is. And |
| Star Fleet Space Academy exam. I know who | | | | believing that it is may keep you traveling in small |
| was the first Captain of the Star Ship Enterprise | | | | circles, a slave to a business (or other obligation) |
| (not Kirk!), the inspiration for my cell phone's Blue | | | | that may grow yet prevent you from enjoying |
| Tooth device and that my first cell phone (the | | | | the personal growth you seek, fulfilling your own |
| Motoral Star Tac) was originally Kirk's crew's | | | | 'prime directive' in the bigger picture of your life. |
| communicator. I also know the Prime Directive | | | | And so I'll ask again: do you know your own |
| that guided every mission and alien encounter: | | | | 'Prime Directive" - your vision for your life? When |
| Starfleet's General Order #1, the most prominent | | | | you do, the choices inherent in crafting a business, |
| guiding principle of the United Federation of Planets | | | | career or relationship are easier to make, clearer |
| says there can be no interference with the | | | | to follow and take you forward always, never in |
| internal affairs of other civilizations. | | | | circles, never away from what's most personally |
| Do you know your "Prime Directive"? | | | | meaningful. Take the time to consider your daily |
| Do you know the over-riding vision for your life | | | | choices: are they consistent with the picture you |
| that pulls you forward daily; one that helps guide | | | | have for your life? Will these activities help bring |
| your decisions and choices? Sometimes we get | | | | you closer to the vision that can irresistibly pull |
| caught up in the obligations we take on (or, even | | | | you forward daily? If you haven't discovered the |
| more challenging - we're overwhelmed by | | | | vision you have for your life, how will you know |
| responsibilities that seem to find us without our | | | | you're on the best possible path each day? |
| active choice) and we forget that all choices, | | | | There's no one around who'll yell out 'getting |
| actions and affiliations must be consistent with a | | | | warmer!' to help pick directions. |
| personal big picture, our own "prime directive". If | | | | There's no one to whom you can say "set a |
| we forget the fundamental importance of | | | | course for my dreams, Mr. Sulu!" |
| honoring that personal commitment, the direction | | | | There's you and there's the time you set aside to |
| in which we want to take our life, the result tends | | | | learn what's critically important to you, to |
| to be a sense of going in circles, not feeling we're | | | | acknowledge it and set your coordinates to get |
| making progress, not getting closer to our own | | | | there. Because, while space is the final frontier, it's |
| life purpose. | | | | just not the space 'out there'. It's the space right |
| Small business clients frequently complain about | | | | here, within your heart and mind, where the |
| this aspect of leading an enterprise: their business | | | | greatest adventure is to be found. |
| is taking them away from more personally fulfilling | | | | Need a guide? |
| activities. I hear things like: "This place would fall | | | | |