I was
listening to an interview with Darren Hardy. I honestly cannot remember who he
was interviewing but I am grateful I heard it. The guy Darren was interviewing
wrote a book. In his research he discovered that all of the wildly successful
people in the world had answered the Five Major Life Questions. I’ve distilled
them here:
The 5 Major
Life Questions
1. What is your
purpose?
Why are you
here. What is your purpose for doing what you are doing. If you cannot answer
this question well you are just wallowing. You need to have a focus, a passion,
a drive that gets you going and keeps you going through thick and thin. Mother
Teresa knew her purpose and lived that purpose every day.
2. What do you
value?
Are you
merely working for money or are you building a legacy for your family? For the
world at large? Are you trying to dent the Universe? Most entrepreneurs see
something wrong with the way things are and are trying to fix it. Most
entrepreneurs head out to make a change and as a consequence make money. Is
what you are doing in alignment with your values?
3. What are
your talents?
This is a
hard question to answer. BUT if you figure out what your talents are and use
them every day toward you major purpose in life, your success will unfold in
front of you. Do more of what you are good at and less of what you are not so
good at.
4. How will the
world experience you? Today? In 5 years? In 10 years?
Look
forward. With your goals in mind think of how the world will experience you in
5 years and in 10 years? What are you doing to impact others? Make your impact
positive!
5. Who would
you be if you were already there?
In order to
have more in life you must become more. In order to change your circumstance
you must change yourself. So picture you at the pinnacle of your own success
and figure out what kind of person is there. Then start right in, right now to
become that person.
People, all
people, suffer from four major addictions. These are not the usual addictions
that people think about when they hear the word addiction but they are equally
as destructive.
The 4 Major
Addictions
The Past
I know so
many people that peaked in high school. Their best days are behind them and
they tell me every time I encounter them. People dwell on stuff that happened
even yesterday. It is important to learn from past experiences but feel the
experience, and then let it go.
Worry
Worry is the
negative use of the imagination. Most everything we worry about doesn’t happen.
If it does happen it is so less debilitating that what we were expecting. Worry
is simply a waste of time and it fills your body with negative emotion.
Drama
We all have
those people in our lives that have “the most terrible thing happened to me on
my way to work, school, church, temple, whatever….” Everything is a huge issue.
Get over it. Nobody cares and it is in the past. Live your life calmly.
Opinion of
other people
Most people
you know won’t go to your funeral. Why would anyone care about what someone
else thinks ESPECIALLY if it means it distracts you from you major purpose in
life. Most people are not even paying attention to you. Live your life.
Watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9PmuAFsQOM
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