"When people have a higher purpose, it gives them a better reason to live."

Can you mention about the CPR techniques that you use?

CPR stands for ‘Context – Purpose – Results’; it’s only been in use since Nov. 2014 and is a framework that I learned from an organisation called Motomo Nation. The organisation is focused on relationships and being the person you’ve always wanted to be–being that person while living in the present as opposed to looking at it as a destination. Oftentimes, people look at ‘who you want to be’ as a destination, and not as a journey. I think that this mentality puts you in a position where you’re always qualifying yourself against a future version of yourself; this can lead to disappointment when people finally reach that goal or status level they’ve always dreamed of and say ‘is this all there is? Now what?’ Instead of this approach, I believe in simply taking the actions now that are in line with being the person that you’ve always wanted to be. In this way you’re living the life you’ve always wanted because it’s a mental state as opposed to a destination; and when you reach your goal in life, it’s not so much a material achievement as it is the realization that you’ve been living the best version of yourself and your achievements are a by-product of being your best self.

Can you give us an example of the CPR techniques?

Let’s say you’re someone who’s always down on life and you want to be a happier person, what actions would a happy person take? A happier person would laugh more, you would smile and you would treat people differently. Instead of being sad or grumpy, you would act happier around other people. As someone who aspires to be happy, these different actions may not make you feel like a happy person yet, but what matters is the impact that you have on others around you. This impact we have on others has the power to reflect back at us; by leaving a positive impression on others, it reciprocates back on us as positive reinforcement which creates to a positive feedback cycle. Looking at this phenomenon in a simplified form, I believe the actions you

take are what lead to motivation; it’s about taking the actions you don’t want to take that lead to a positive feedback cycle rather than waiting for the feeling of motivation before taking action.

Now that you have the idea of ‘taking action’ as a means of being the person you’ve always wanted to be, we can look a the framework of a CPR, which allows you to set your goals as ‘the person you’ve always wanted to be’. Despite being called a ‘CPR’ you create your CPR in reverse order ‘R-P-C’ or ‘Results-Purpose-Context’.

1. Results - Start by recreating your results. Your results must be measureable in time and space (i.e. they must have be objectively measureable and have a due date for completion).

2. Purpose – The purpose is the key driving force behind all your actions. It’s what creates the fire and drive to achieve the results you’ve set for yourself. The purpose is structured simply as ‘I want to do X so that I achieve Y’. For example, Elon Musk’s Purpose may be to create renewable energy that is accessible and affordable for everyone on the planet, so the human race can continue to live on this planet. His results could be to launch Tesla Motors, to create the most efficient rechargeable batteries and to achieve them in a specific timeframe. His success is measured by his results but he is driven by his purpose. His ability to achieve his results is reflected in how powerful his purpose is.

3.Context – The context is the mindset you create for yourself in order to be the person you have to be to live your purpose and achieve the results you set. You can start by using the sentence: “I am a person who is _________(insert word).” (Words like, driven, unstoppable, etc.). Create a context for yourself that gets you into action or something that keeps you grounded when you’re overwhelmed. Your context is a word or phrase that acts as a mantra to get you back into the mindset you need to live your purpose.

At the end of the timeframe you set in your CPR, you look at the results and see if you have achieved what you set out to accomplish. Your CPR measures how successful you were at living your purpose without being attached to the results. If you didn’t achieve all your results, perhaps your purpose wasn’t strong enough, or your context didn’t call you into action. Your CPR allows you to create who you want to be, and if you are aligned wholly with that person, your results will come naturally as a by product of living your purpose.

A CPR framework is similar to how law of attraction works. Who we choose to be subconsciously attracts and repels what we want and don’t want respectively. So your CPR empowers you to intentionally choose who you want to be and allows you to measure how successful you are in being that person.