🌳 3 Steps To Find Your Purpose

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3 STEPS TO FINDING YOUR PURPOSE

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As a young person, guy or girl, with any kind of ambition or aspiration in life to do something with your life, the biggest challenge you will face throughout the majority of your journey is finding your purpose.

Yet as difficult as it is, it’s also probably the most beneficial thing you could possibly do because finding your purpose bypasses the desire to make money, the desire to be famous, or the desire to have loads of friends. If you strip all of those vanity metrics down, you will come to a purpose, and you will ask yourself the question:

What is my point? Why should I wake up every morning? I’ve got enough friends, enough money, and a big enough family, but what is my reason for being?

Well, this edition of The Kaizen is to help you answer exactly that. Here is a 3-step process to finding your purpose.

Step 1: Reverse engineer your dream life.

Although you may not know what you want to do with your life, you probably have an Idea of what you want your future life to look like. Do you have an abundance of money? Do you have a big family or live by yourself? What do your Ideal days look like? Figure it out and work backwards; write it down in order to break it down and understand why you want what you want, and from there, you can look at people who have achieved what you want to achieve and reverse engineer their journey (which is most likely online).

It won't solve all your problems, but it will act as a guide.

Step 2: Discover your Ikiagi.

The majority of people in the modern world, and especially in the Western world, are told what we should want. From the age of consciousness, we are pushed down the path of education → job → scale → retire as the ‘norm, and it takes some real self-reflection to not only understand this but attempt to combat it. We are provided with thin parameters of what we are able to do and few career options that we can choose from, and the problem with this is that the majority of the time we have no idea what we want that early on; we are choosing because we are forced to.

This leaves you with the same problem as before: you will wake up one day and ask yourself, What is the point of my being?

Lucky for us, the Japanese figured it out, and it’s known as discovering your Ikiagi. Your Ikiagi is the intersection of...

• What you love

• What you're good at

• What you can be paid for

• What the world needs

Once you've found your Ikigai, you've answered some important questions in your own life.

Step 3: Start doing sh*t.

Many of us are in a rush to figure out life extremely early on because, let's face it, It feels like the world is moving quicker than ever before and that we are on this race against time, but the answer to ‘what is my purpose?’ won’t show up in a book that you read or come into your head when you’re on a walk.

Your purpose should be a product of your experiences and perceptions of your life so far.

And therefore, if you haven't done anything with your life, you'll struggle to figure out what you want to do. Therefore, you have to start doing things, start projects and fail, go travelling and meet new people, discover new problems, and figure out how to solve them.

Some of it will feel like a waste of time, but it’s not. It's a process of elimination until you find what works. Even if that takes you 5 years to figure out, you’ve got many more years to live, so there is no need to worry.

ACTIONABLE NEXT STEPS:

Finding your purpose isn’t a simple problem to solve; quite the contrary, in fact, but if there was one step that’s more important than the others, it's probably step 3: Start doing sh*t because, without it, you’re like a character in a video game that hasn’t levelled up. You’re still on level 1 and already trying to figure out your purpose?

TAKEAWAYS:

Step 1: Reverse engineer your dream life.

Step 2: Discover your Ikiagi.

Step 3: Start doing sh*t.

BOOK OF THE WEEK ⤵️

The book of the week is ‘How to stop worrying and start living’ by Dale Carnegie, the author of ‘How to win friends and influence people’. Carnegie details the many ways worrying too much can ruin your life and how to solve it. The book contains tips and tricks on conquering worries that are worthwhile. Read It HERE

CREATOR OF THE WEEK ⤵️

The creator of the week is @DanKoe, a pioneer in the self-improvement space across all social platforms. He makes content focused on optimising your life in every way possible. From making more money to finding your purpose, he’s not one to miss out!

LESSON OF THE DAY ⤵️

People die at 25 and aren't buried until they are 75.

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