Create a three part personal and professional roadmap

Connecting with Who We Are

Practice mindful meditation
Pick a simple mental exercise through a mundane task that you can practice regularly.

For example, I can completely lose myself in a daily task like vacuuming or cooking. Being in the moment allows me to escape from adversity, conserve my inner energy, and be more consciously aware.
- Try getting up really early (like 5am or earlier) without using an alarm clock if possible
- Choose one mundane task such as cleaning or vacuuming – something that you consider mundane
- Practice this regularly (could be everyday, could be few times a week and force yourself do this task with singular focus without thinking about anything else)
If you prefer traditional method of meditation, please follow this the steps outlined in one of my articles here > http://www.huffingtonpost.com/faisal-hoque/mindfulness-practice_b_4114543.html.
Practice mindful visualization
Outline three basic elements to visualize in the hopes of manifesting your own future:
- Imagine yourself in the final stage (of your goals, your products, your company, your books, your personal life, etc.)
- Study patterns (of your surroundings, your markets, your skills, your behaviors, your reactions)
- Practice rituals (to be disciplined about your devotion, to recover from your defeats, to thrive, to achieve a higher degree of confidence)
Lesson 1 articles
Living and Leading with Authenticity
I believe authentic living and leadership do not come from title, social stature, or the size of one’s paycheck, but rather from knowing yourself, how you live, and the impact you make around you.

Defining The Word “Entrepreneur” For The 21st Century
It’s a word we throw around every day: entrepreneur. But does it mean the same thing now as it did in 1723?

Navigating With a Beginner’s Mind
A beginner’s mind, then, is what allows us to embrace the highest emotional qualities such as enthusiasm, zeal and optimism to creatively move ourselves forward.
Lesson 2 articles
Buddha Had It Right: Relax The Mind And Productivity Will Follow

Eastern thought and meditation are pushing ever-closer to the mainstream. Today, many ancient teachings coincide perfectly with modern research on improved mental agility.

Thriving with Mindful Visualization

I believe our minds have an enormous capacity to connect the invisible dots to guide us to strive for the impossible. This ability to connect the dots comes from mindfully visualizing our path.

Meditate to Connect, Create and Lead

The Sanskrit for mindfulness meditation is shamatha, which translates directly as calm abiding. The practice is not a method of capture, but of releasing.
Lesson 3 articles
Manifesting Our Destiny With Imagination, Devotion and Courage

We repeatedly find ourselves in stormy waters, strong tides, and facing fierce winds. But that elemental energy can be harnessed and converted into productive, sustainable, and positive relationships and outcomes.

10 Paradoxical Traits of Creative People

It is safe to say that more and more entrepreneurs are artists, and artists of all kinds are entrepreneurs. Creativity is the common theme that drives both entrepreneurs and artists alike.

To Lead Others, Learn To Lead Yourself First

Envisioning a better future, setting worthy goals, and following through with sustainable impact first and foremost requires leading yourself.

Inspiring and Leading Inside and Outside of Our Organizations

Lead yourself and others
It takes a person with a positive, honest, forward-looking attitude to inspire and influence the people involved in creating success.

Outline the following key elements:
- The roles you like to play in a particular initiative (creating new ideas, guiding others, building new things, expanding projects, etc.)
- Your sense of purpose (what do you stand for – your vision, your authentic message, how do you want them to inspire others, what’s your unique calling, etc.)
- Define your companions (nobody succeeds in a silo. what are the characteristics and the skills you need from others, what’s your value proposition to them).
Lesson 4 articles
The Paradox of Doing More

Instead of time being this thing on the wall or on the watch, time is your ongoing, fluid experience, your consciousness.

The 5 Blind Men And Other Myths Of Innovation

All people–and disciplines–access the world through their own perspectives, carrying narratives and baggage they do and do not see.

The Creative Mind: An Introduction to Metaphysics

The final published book by Nobel Prize-winning author and philosopher Henri Bergson (1859-1941), La pensée et le mouvant (translated here as The Creative Mind), is a masterly autobiography of his philosophical method.
Lesson 5 articles
How “Talent Clusters” Will Help You Win A Sustainable Future

The old systems are broken. The Internet changed everything. Looking forward, we need to cultivate fluid organizations, powered by innovative, multidimensional people.

Leading In The Age of Creativity

Learn to lead in ways that help rather than tell people to grow and align personal motivations with what your company needs.

The 3 Pillars Of The Innovation Economy

Key leadership concepts for creating sustainable innovation include emotional intelligence, cross-collaborative culture, and repeatable processes. Here’s how to foster them in your company.
Lesson 6 articles
The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work

What really sets the best managers above the rest? It’s their power to build a cadre of employees who have great inner work lives—consistently positive emotions; strong motivation; and favorable perceptions of the organization, their work, and their colleagues.

Empowering Ourselves Through Others

We never know whom we may inspire or influence, or who may inspire and influence us. Today’s stranger may be tomorrow’s partner.

The Capacity To Connect: How To Change People’s Lives With Sustainable Innovation

If something sustains, it continues over a period of time. Living things grow. Sustainable growth for an organization requires leaders to act as a catalyst.

Generating Ideas, Grounded Decisions, and Long Lasting Value

Build a platform for long term value
Creating one unique product (one article, one book, one song, or one app) isn't enough. It takes repeatability to create sustainable success.

Outline the following key elements:
- Define your ‘platform’ (the assets, whether internal or external, that comprise your set of capabilities and character)
- Define your blueprint (the inter-connected dots between your platform, your ecosystem, and the value you want to create)
- Define your ecosystem (how you competencies you've built can extend in new directions)
Lesson 7 articles
How Curiosity Cultivates Creativity

A lesson from the life of Leonardo da Vinci about how observing the world around you can lead to creative breakthroughs.

Why Simplicity Is So Complex

The key to solving complex problems may be to simplify as much as possible and approach them with a beginner’s mind.

How Da Vinci-Like Thinking Helps You Imagine Future Success

Da Vinci’s belief that “everything connects” helped make him the 15th-century Italian Renaissance man we all admire today. And it was another legendary thinker who noted that “the past is prologue.” Connect the dots to create a pretty picture for you and your business.
Lesson 8 articles
Why You Need a Better Business Blueprint

The operating blueprints provide the basis for a predictive, sustainable business plan for managing challenges and opportunities for growth and success in the future.

The 7-Step Model For Creating Sustained Economic Transformation

Transformation can be modeled, documented, and implemented as a total game-changing process. Here’s how to get it started.

Why Most Venture-Backed Companies Fail

Money doesn’t guarantee success; only effective execution can deliver that goal.
Lesson 9 articles
What We Often Forget About Value Creation

Derived from my own entrepreneurial successes and failures, I have distilled three fundamental themes that I believe are the catalysts for long-term value for greater tangible and intangible impact.

3 Leadership Mandates For Sustained Innovation & Growth

Peter Drucker and Clay Christensen have repeatedly pointed to process, knowledge, and long-term vision for sustained innovation. So why are we still rushing to the finish line half-baked?

The 3 Pillars Of The Innovation Economy

Key leadership concepts for creating sustainable innovation include emotional intelligence, cross-collaborative culture, and repeatable processes. Here’s how to foster them in your company.

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