What's Your Manifesto?

Manifestos are a powerful catalyst. By publicly stating your views and intentions, you create a pact for taking action. If you want to change the world, even in just a small way, creating a personal or business manifesto is a great place to start. Needless to say, developing a set of principles that you believe in and constantly strive to stand by is an invaluable tool.

To spark your imagination, I have posted one of my favorite manifestos below.

The Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright

Via Gretchen Rubin, we discovered this manifesto from architect Frank Lloyd Wright, written as a series of “fellowship assets” meant to guide the apprentices who worked with him at his school, Taliesin. I particularly love number 10, the idea that working with others should come naturally.

1. An honest ego in a healthy body.
2. An eye to see nature.

3. A heart to feel nature.

4. Courage to follow nature.

5. The sense of proportion (humor).

6. Appreciation of work as idea and idea as work.

7. Fertility of imagination.
8. Capacity for faith and rebellion.

9. Disregard for commonplace (inorganic) elegance.
10. Instinctive cooperation.

What's your Manifesto?

My Manifesto is composed of three simple sentences:

1. "Our essential purpose is to become the best version of Ourselves"
2. "Wisdom is knowing what to do next, Skill is knowing how to do it, And virtue is doing it.
3. "Listen with the night falling we are saying thank you”

These sentences remind me daily to:

1. live with one sole purpose - to be my best
2. wisdom, skill, and virtue are steps that lead to progress and success
3. gratitude it’s a must have

Do you have a personal manifesto that you’d like to share?


How about a manifesto that you’ve always admired?