Inform Yourself

My good friend Jay Niblick, founder of Innermetrix International, recently completed a study called The Genius Project. His study became the basis for his latest book, What’s Your Genius? I have worked with Jay for many years assisting organizations and individuals achieve a higher level of performance.

When Jay started his own company his father gave him a card with a simple message scribbled on it. It was a rather famous quote by Henry David Thoreau that reads, “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined.” He still has this card in his desk and it does inspire him to continue to drive towards his dreams, not just settle for what he gets. His hope is that in these pages you’ve taken a journey. I hope that you have evolved and that you’ve re-learned something about yourself that has always been there and discovered the self-respect and courage to admire and respect that Genius. Finally, it is my sincerest hope that you now know who you are and what unique and great potential you possess, and that you will use this knowledge to confidently head towards the direction of your dreams.

To that end, we’ll leave you with one last suggestion. We’ll keep this as simple as possible:

• Just do what is you and don’t do what isn’t you
• Just follow your quiet path and don’t blindly follow the path of others
• Just do what comes naturally to you and refuse to do what doesn’t
• Just accept the best for yourself – never settle

Originally this conclusion was five pages long. In it Jay summarized pretty much everything we’ve talked about from the first post, trying to create a nice simple flow from beginning to end, but when he looked at it he decided what was really needed, what he thought was the ultimate benefit of any conclusion, was a simplified message that was so salient and cutting that you would be able to state it in a single sentence. He decided that to best serve its purpose, the conclusion had to be something simple that, like the natural talents this book is about, would allow you to benefit from it almost effortlessly.

After reading through the entire work, that message jumped out at him. Simply put, to conclude, the single message you the reader should take away from these posts is:

Just Do You!