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How do you go about making yourself useful?

by Rick Baker
On Aug 24, 2016

Do you want to be useful?

If so -

How do you go about making yourself useful?

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First -

What does ‘being useful’ mean to you?

  • Is ‘being useful’ about thoughts?
  • Is ‘being useful’ about action?
  • Is ‘being useful’ about both?

Next -

When you envision yourself being useful what, specifically, do you see yourself thinking or doing?

Why did you choose these things as being useful rather than choosing other things?

What's the relationship between these useful things and your personal values?

When you do these useful things, how do you do them?

Then –

How do you go about making yourself useful?

Do you set goals around your useful things?

Do you monitor the things you do and regulate yourself in an effort to maximize the time you spend doing useful things?

Do you refuse to do things you deem to be not-useful?

When you find yourself doing not-useful things do you stop and shift toward doing useful things?

When you feel bored do you intentionally choose to remove that boredom by doing useful things?

When you feel stressed do you check to see if you are doing useful things?

When you face problems do you intentionally focus on how to make yourself useful?

When you see people struggling do you automatically make yourself useful, helping them?

Throughout the day, do you ask yourself, "Am I making myself useful?"? 

At the end of the day do you ask yourself, "What useful things did I do today?"?

Do you commit to being useful tomorrow?

Do you commit to being useful every day from here to eternity?

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Has making yourself useful become one of your good habits

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