What is the Number One Skill Needed For Our Future?

My Friend Annie Hart at http://www.anniehart.com  asked 20 business leaders (including yours truly) the following question. “Everyone is concerned about how to survive in these tough times, but YOU are someone that lives bigger than just these times.  When you peer into the future, what is the number one skill you see that we need for the future?”

My answer is below and I encourage you to go to her site and check out the other answers that were given by some incredible and diverse individuals.

I believe that the number one skill that each of us will need to embrace and practice is the ability to distinguish between what is real and not for real for us.  Most of us have been told what we need to DO to win the game of life.  We’ve been beat over the head with advertisements, products, procedures, gurus, second uncles and even a government which with good intentions (usually) want us to fit in, play it safe and not think too big.  I mean after all, we don’t want to be disappointed do we?  Many of us have been so inundated with minutia that we really don’t know who we are anymore.
          The ability to know what is real, what is true for us is what will allow us to express our highest and best.  By listening to our own voice and then sharing our own unique perspective and gifts with others, we are in the ultimate position of serving, ourselves and others.  There is a real silver lining in the clouds of doom and gloom.   Many of us will understand, perhaps for the first time that stuff, status and arrogance really can’t add appreciable value to this experience we call life, at least not by themselves.
          We are entering a new era where success will not be determined necessarily by education, career longevity or bull-headed determination, although some determination can be a positive attribute.  Instead success will finally be measured by our own inner happiness, by our ability to stay in a monogamous relationship with our authentic self.  However, this is not just an inside job, the real abundance, the juice of an exhilarating life can only be extracted through expressing our reality, our truth through service to others.
          By sharing who we are at the deepest levels with those who resonate with our offer, we will experience more abundance, money, fun, deep satisfaction and even stuff (if we want it) than we ever could have in the old paradigm.  Yes, it’s finally time to just get real.

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