Often the very quality we think we lack is really our most potent potential.*
Jean Houston

It just barely works … The secret of successful product development isn’t an innovation that bursts forth as a polished and finished product. Instead, it’s sticking with something that is almost useless, nurturing and sharing and improving until we can’t imagine living without it.**
Seth Godin

We are each called,
Some hear this sooner than others, as Viktor Frankl
makes us aware:
It is life itself that asks questions of man …
he should recognise that he is questioned,
questioned by life; he has to respond by being
responsible; and can answer to life only by
answering for his life.^

Towards this, Frankl offers a formula for
a life of meaning, here articulated by Donald Miller:
1. Take action creating a work or performing a deed.
2. Experience something or encounter someone that
you find captivating and that pulls you out of yourself.
3. Have an optimistic attitude toward the inevitable
challenges and suffering you will face in life.^^

These somewhat echo the hero’s journey:
1. The call to adventure.
2. Finding the guide.
3. Be prepared for the challenges.

We may have all our talents and abilities in our ordinary world life,
But the story that lies beneath its surface will ask that we
learn and attempt new ways to use these, so
when we begin tapping into our “potent potential” it
may not look like much at all –
But, as for the product so for our lives:
If we work at what we come to understand as
our responsibility,
It will become everything.

*Jean Houston’s The Wizard of Us;
**Seth Godin’s blog: It just barely works;
^Viktor Frankl’s The Doctor and the Soul;
^^Donald Miller’s Hero On a Mission.