What Do You Follow?

• 💡 Wisdom

• ✏️ Illustration

• 💬 Saying

• 🧭 Explanation

• 📝 Reflection

Estimated reading time: 3 minutes

As this is my last newsletter before Christmas, I wanted to take a moment to voice my gratitude to you for making this year special.

It is the honour of a lifetime that you join me ever week in getting wiser.

Thank you!

I wish you a lovely Christmas.

Now let’s get WISER together!

Some people are motivated by their desires.

Others are motivated by a purpose.

Which one will you choose?

What better time to share a Nativity-inspired visual?!

Here’s an illustration to get you thinking:

Many consider Christmas to be the season of gift-giving.

Consider today’s quote whilst enjoying your festivities:

Do you know what your calling is?

Let’s explore an example of following your calling:

Let me start today’s explanation with a slightly embarrassing story.

I first shared this visual back in 2022.

I had been excited to share it for months, then the first Sunday of Advent finally came, and I eagerly posted the visual.

A few moments passed, then it dawned on me…

I posted the visual with a typo error.

It took me about 30 minutes to realise this mistake, but by then the post had already started to pick up traction in the algorithm.

So I was faced with a tough choice:

• Option 1: I remove the post and re-upload it with the correct spelling, but potentially impact the visual’s reach

• Option 2: I leave the post to continue to get likes, but show myself to be a bit of a fool

What would you have done in this situation?

Even though I desired to not experience the embarrassment, I opted to follow the advice in the visual and allowed the visual to continue to reach as many people as possible.

After all, my purpose is to encourage people to get wiser, and leaving the post up with the typo gave it the best chance to get more people pondering what they followed.

I chose purpose over desire.

Will you?

Whilst eating all of the mince pies in the coming days, consider completing this newsletter’s Reflection section.

Consider journaling your responses to the following questions:

• What motivates your actions more: desire or purpose?

• Do you believe in callings? If so, do you know what your calling is?

• How can you follow your calling this Christmas?

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Today’s resource is a little bit different.

I want to share the most thought-provoking show that I have watched this year: The Chosen.

This show depicts reenactments of the experiences of Jesus Christ.

Even though I am familiar with these stories from reading the Bible, I was moved by seeing the cast and production team’s interpretation of these events.

It allowed me to further deepen my appreciation and relationship with Jesus.

Even if you don’t have a faith, I think you will find this show moving.

You can learn more about it and find where to watch it in your region here:

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Catch you in the next issue!

Thanks,
Michael