Finding Your Purpose In 3 Steps

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FIND YOUR PURPOSE IN 3 STEPS

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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.

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 ask the same question:

What is my point? Why should I wake up every morning? What is the meaning of my life?

Well, although The Kaizen isn’t a life coach, we are going to break those daunting questions down into steps that you can start to take.

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

Step 2) Discover your Ikigai.

Your Ikigai 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.

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.

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?

Your purpose should be a product of your experiences and perceptions of your life so far, If you haven’t had a life so far, go live one.

TAKEAWAYS:

A 3 step framework to help you find your purpose:

Step 1) Reverse engineer your dream life.

Step 2) Discover your Ikigai.

Step 3) Start doing sh*t.

LESSON OF THE DAY ⤵️

A happy life is not a life without struggle, it's a life with meaningful struggle.

If you know that you shouldn’t do it yet and do it anyway, then it's likely a more fundamental problem than a perspective change.

People tend to compare themselves to others in order to find faults in others that they supersede, which all comes down to not feeling secure in themselves.

A confident man or woman won’t compare themselves to other people, as they will feel no need to.

An insecure person, however, will do so due to the desire to try and reinforce what they believe to be good about themselves.

In that case, it may come down to your self-confidence. If you want to work on improving that, check out this issue.

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