Finding Your 'Why'

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FINDING YOUR ‘WHY’

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If you don’t create your own path, one will be created for you.

This principle is apparent in every aspect of your life. If you don’t make conscious decisions about what you want to do, the decisions will be made for you; you will be put on an automatic path that’s not so easy to get off of.

You will end up with the same results as your friends, peers, and parents because you will conform to the path they lay out for you.

In order to live the life that is true to you, you need to find your ‘why’.

Knowing your ‘why’ helps you make better life decisions when it comes to doing what you want to do.

For example, with the job that you chose, to understand your ‘why’ you need to do these 3 things:

1) Define what work means for you.

Is it purely for income? Is it a creative outlet? Is it an impact that you want to have? Maybe something else?

2) Think about what activities make your heart race with excitement.

What do you naturally gravitate towards without even realising it?

3) Reflect on the driving forces behind your work.

What inspires you, fuels your ambition, and aligns with your values?

Don’t mistakenly mix up your values with someone else's values that you look up to, these are your values we’re talking about.

ACTIONABLE NEXT STEPS:

When was the last time you asked yourself, ‘Why am I doing this?’ And you really dug deep into the core answer?

Not the surface-level answer of ‘because it was the easiest option’ or ‘it pays the bills’ but the meaningful answer buried below.

When you do start to ask yourself these questions, you start to become enlightened, almost becoming your own teacher who can wag the finger at yourself for knowingly not choosing your own path.

These are the conversations that you need to have with yourself if you want to pave your own path and live a life that is true to you.

TAKEAWAYS:

If you want to understand your ‘why’ you need to do these 3 things:

1) Define what work means for you.

2) Think about what activities make your heart race with excitement.

3) Reflect on the driving forces behind your work.

LESSON OF THE DAY ⤵️

If someone doesn’t something you don’t understand it’s usually because they benefit in some way you don’t see.

Sometimes being more productive isn’t about getting more things done; it’s about doing more meaningful things and rewarding yourself accordingly.

Feeling ‘productive’ is all a perception; what someone else may consider productive, you may not, and therefore you can’t base your productivity on someone else's standards.

Create a set of tasks that, if you were to complete them, you would feel satisfied with and reward yourself for when you complete those tasks.

Slowly increase your standards over time, and the amount that you get done will follow.

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