Purpose of Life
To live your extraordinary life, you’ll need to live YOUR life, not somebody else’s.
Often, we live our lives how others want us to live. We build our daily habits and schedules around what our families, friends, and society want for us. We are a product of our surroundings.
It takes guts to live your life according to your true priorities, especially when your priorities differ from the people around you. When you have the courage to build your life around what matters most to you, you live authentically and your days become filled with a stronger sense of purpose and fulfillment.
For some people, climbing the corporate ladder is a false objective because they desire more than anything to take some time away from their career to stay home with their young kids. For others, having a large home mortgage is a false objective, because they would love the freedom to travel the world.
In order to feel fulfilled, it’s important to closely evaluate your life and be 100% honest with yourself on the following questions:
- What matters most to you?
- What false objectives are you working toward?
It’s important to identify and eliminate the false objectives in your life. When you eliminate the false objectives, you begin focusing your life on what matters most to you; and, it gives you the space to create your authentic, extraordinary life.
This guide will be helpful for you:
The Ultimate Guide to Prioritizing Your Work And Life
2. Develop a crystal-clear vision of the life you desire
As you define your true priorities, you can start developing a vision for the life you desire.
How will you build your life around your priorities?
Write down everything you can think of about the life you desire. Then work on believing it’s possible to achieve it. This can be really difficult, but it’s crucial.
If traveling is one of your biggest priorities, and you deeply desire to create a freedom-based career with a laptop lifestyle allowing you to work from anywhere in the world, you’ll need to believe it’s possible. If deep down you believe that it’s not possible for you to break free from the 9-5 in the cubicle, you won’t take the steps necessary to break free from the office.
If you say writing is very important to you and your biggest ambition is to become a New York Times bestselling author, but deep down you believe that you’ll never finish writing your book, the actions you take every day are going to align with your disbelief. When you’re not feeling motivated to write, you won’t. When you’re feeling defeated, you’ll quit.
What you believe about yourself–and what you believe is possible for yourself–affects how you show up every day to achieve your biggest goal.
Get clear about the life you desire, and work on believing it’s possible to achieve it.
Check out this article and find what matters to you most:
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3. Create a plan to achieve your vision
Let’s use the bestselling author example again.
If your biggest ambition is to become a New York Times bestselling author, because you want to write about a topic that matters a lot to you and make a difference in the lives of many with your words, you’ll need a plan to achieve that vision.
Hope is not a strategy. You’ll need a plan.
You’ll need to develop a writing habit. You’ll need to research how to get published. You’ll need to learn how to effectively market the book or how to hire somebody to market it for you.
Create a specific plan and give yourself deadlines to achieve it. Use SMART goal to outline your plan:
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