In this blog post, this one simple rule to finding your true purpose in life, will help you understand how to live a more fulfilled life. You will identify your passions that can be monetized and turn into a sustainable business by using the Japanese concept, Ikigai. In sharing with you my success tips and one simple rule to finding your true purpose, you can live a more fulfilled life while impacting others.

Some of the most important questions you can ever ask yourself on your journey through life are questions such as:

• “Why am I here?”,
• “What do I really want?” ,
• “Where do I want to be?”,
• “When I achieve my goals, what would it look like?”,
• “How will I get to where I want to be?”,
• “Who will I have to become to live a life with purpose?”

Some Success Tips for finding your true purpose

The most successful people are invariably those people who are spending the most time thinking about who they are and where they are going.

A consistent self awareness and a journey of evaluation about what you really want contributes to reaching your success goals.

The starting point of great success, in business and in general, is realizing that you are truly unique, extraordinary and different than anyone in the entire universe.

You do have remarkable abilities, skills, aptitudes, insights & ideas that contributes to your indifference. In some way, you are superior to all other people who have ever lived. Inside of you, you have the capacity to accomplish way more than you have ever dreamed of in the past.

You are engineered and designed to live a life filled with purpose, meaning and fulfillment.

The great tragedy is that most people go through life and die with their music still inside them.

They react and respond to:

• pressures and events,
• parents,
• bosses,
• bills and responsibilities

without ever taking the time to sit down and think about what it is that they really want for themselves.

I am a strong believer in purpose.

So it will not come as a surprise when I tell you that you were put on this earth for a reason. To do something wonderful, extraordinary with your life. But it is YOUR job to find out what that wonderful thing is and then find a way to doing it extremely well.

You even might only have a single purpose, like that of Mother Theresa of Calcutta, or your life may have multiple, sequential purposes. As you evolve, grow and develop into the best version of yourself, you will discover more things that leads you to living with purpose.

Using questions and prompts can help you finding your true purpose in life.

The ONE simple RULE to finding your true purpose

In any case, the one common characteristic of the most successful men and women is having clarity.

Having an absolutely clear understanding about what they stand for, believe in and how they will get where they are going are great attributes of success.

Let’s start at the beginning.

What is your heart’s desire?

To define your heart’s desire, you need to find what you believe you were put on this earth to do.

That something special inside of you that is unique and can only be done in the way you do it. Your job throughout life is to discover your true heart’s desire. Only then will you live a fulfilled life, reach complete success and like most say, find your “sweet spot” in whatever you do.

So, what is yours?

• Is it a passion to help others?
• Even a longing to write novels?
• Or teaching others how to bake bread?

The One simple rule to find your true purpose : Find Your IKIGAI

It does not matter how stupid, how unimportant or needless it sounds, you have a drive inside you to reach full potential. Finding purpose in life is one of the most fundamental human needs. By our very nature, we seek meaning and validation of our place in life.

Feeling like your life makes sense, feeling you have direction and that you are motivated by valued goals and feeling that your existence is significant (George & Park, 2016) is how we debate the meaning of life.

Thorough research proves that a high sense of purpose is associated with a reduced risk of all-cause morality, higher daily positive affect, lower daily negative affect and improved longevity across diverse cultures, genders and age groups (Cohen, Bavishi & Rozanski, 2016).

In Japanese culture, to find meaning and purpose in life is to find one’s ikigai (ee-key-guy).

Even though no definitive translation exists, ikigai, which is a combination of the Japanese words ikiru, meaning “to live”, and kai, meaning”the realization of what one hopes for”, can be understood as a reason for being, or that which makes life worth living.

Research suggests that having ikigai facilitates the integration of stressful psychological events from the past, present, and future with less conflict or confusion. (Ishida & Okada, 2011)

Further, ikigai has been shown to influence immune function and increase life expectancy (Hui & Fung, 2009), reduce anxiety and improve resilience (Ishida, 2008), act as an intermediary between flow experience and sense of coherence (Iida & Oguma, 2013) and enhance self-esteem and acceptance of adversity (Kamiya, 2004), amongst many other favorable outcomes.

Having ikigai means that each day is infused with meaning and reflects not only psychological factors, such as wellbeing, hopes and dreams but also an individual’s consciousness of their motivation for a living (Sone et al., 2008)

Your discovery of your own ikigai is attainable with:

• Patience
• Commitment
• Introspective exploration

The Four Ingredients of Ikigai

While this concept is personal and specific to individual self discovery, ikigai is consistently found at the convergence of four fundamental elements (Garcia, Miralles, & Cleary, 2017), namely:

• Passion (What you love)
• Mission (What the world needs)
• Vocation (What you are good at)
• Profession (What you can get paid for)

The goal with this tool, is to help you use the one rule to finding your purpose and meaning in your live.

By engaging in the Japanese practice of ikigai, you can explore and connect with what is most meaningful by discovering the point at which your passions and talents converge with what others need and are willing to pay for.

How to use the Ikigai Chart

Use these steps to help you complete your own ikigai chart:

• Finding one’s ikigai requires a commitment to action
• Determine what it is you value most – it is not likely to be discovered overnight
• Your ikigai is something that will unfold over time and changes as various aspects of your own life changes
• In other words, finding your ikigai is about lifelong self-reflection and experimentation
• Carefully consider each of the four circles and allow yourself time to respond to each question
• Answer as honestly as possible and writing down whatever comes to mind at the moment
• Use prompts to help you answer each question
• You can use your answers as a source of inspiration
• There is value to be found in any overlapping response
• Overlapping answers will provide clarity on other aspects of your life and therefore, lead you closer to discovering your ikigai
• Focus on active actions and activities that manifest in observable outcomes. For instance, activities such as painting or gardening should be prioritized over passively watching television
• You might identify more than one ikigai and discovering that your ikigai may change as your circumstances change.
• Revisit this exercise regularly as well as every time you feel a sense of misalignment between your values and your actions

The secret to a long and happy life is to live with purpose every day.

Living a life with meaning and value can make you happier, more content, more resilient through hard times and more likely to influence the lives of others.

You can find meaning from many different sources, such as:

• Relationships
• Work
• Religion
• Hobbies
• Your Job/Career

What gives you a sense of meaning or purpose in life?

There you have it! My ONE simple rule to finding your true purpose in life.

You now have a tool to start working on those hearts’ desires so you too can find your ikigai and start living a purpose-driven life!

Wondering how to use this one simple rule to turn your purpose into profits?

I show you how to find your purpose (ikigai), sweet spot, calling or “Zone of Genius” and also how to turn that into a monetized solution so you can even make money from living a fulfilled, purpose driven life.

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I truly hope you will take this time, invest in yourself and truly live a life of impact!

To your succes!

The Importance of Charting Your Progress

To succeed with the growth mindset is a way of thinking that says we evolve and develop over time.

It states that we are not fixed and static.

To be successful at business (or anything in life), you need to adopt the growth mindset so that you can continue to learn and grow.

An important element for the success of a growth mindset is charting your own progress.

A Feedback Loop for Success

How do you know if you’re growing?

One of the key ways to succeed with the growth mindset is to chart your progress.

This means identifying each milestone and recognizing when you’ve reached success.

This milestone offers proof that you’re growing and shows that you can change over time, while at the same time showing that you’re making progress towards achieving your goals. It serves as a kind of positive feedback loop. Each milestone provides you more evidence of your growth; this in turn helps you keep pushing ahead and setting the next milestone.

Create a Digital Success Folder

How do you chart your success progress?

When teaching students to learn how to succeed with the growth mindset, teachers encourage them to keep a success folder.

You can do this too with a digital success folder.

Save screenshots or files somewhere for completed projects you’ve done. Include anything you consider an achievement. You can use this material for motivation when you need it. It offers evidence of how far you’ve come.

Learn to Set Better Goals for Success

The way you set your goals can make a difference in your development. In order to set a milestone you’ll achieve, it has to be SMART:

Specific – Identify exactly how you will know once the goal is achieved.
Measurable – Attach some numbers so you can easily measure it.
Actionable – Break it down into the steps needed to reach it.
Realistic – It needs to be something you can achieve.
Timely – Set a deadline for when you’ll do it.

With clearly defined milestones, you’ll know for sure when you reach them, and they’ll be more effective in both reaching your goals and charting your progress.

Re-frame How You View Mistakes

A key to the growth mindset is re-framing how you think about mistakes.

Mistakes aren’t failures; they’re learning experiences.

They don’t impede your growth. They’re a necessary part of growth just like successes. If you understand this, you can take action toward goals and more easily reach your milestones.

Charting Your Progress Is Important Work

Successful people chart their progress as a matter of course. It becomes a habit. But if you want to adopt the growth mindset, you have to make it an intentional part of your business. This means setting aside time for strategic planning and taking the time to learn new skills and techniques.

Put time on your calendar to

• set goals,
• review results, and
• remind yourself

how far you’ve come by referring back to your digital success file.

Do you want to learn more about charting your progress and growing?

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In this blog post, I share how change happens & how to accept it for your entrepreneurial success.

Change is the only constant in life.

So why do we fear it so much?

We often see change as something negative or risky, failing to see that it is also a great opportunity.

In fact, there is no growth without change.

Why We Need to Embrace Change

We grow through facing challenges and handling them in creative ways.

Whether it brings short-term advantages or disadvantages, in the long term, each change is just one step in our development.

In addition to the opportunities it offers, change also presents a challenge to your skills.

To be successful in business, you must be flexible and adaptable.

Your negative limiting beliefs tell you this is bad because it’s a shift away from the status quo.

How you meet these challenges can determine how you meet the next one.

You’ll have a list of successes you can draw on for motivation when you face the next obstacle.

Embracing change and seeing it as something positive is essential for cultivating a success mindset.

There are specific techniques you can employ to help you make this shift:

• Make a List of Successes and Positive Changes
  • Go back over big changes you’ve faced in the past.
  • Look at how they impacted you.
  • You’ll find a few that you wish would never have happened. But most likely, the majority ended up benefiting you in some way in the long term.

• Write down a list of the positive results of changes and successes you’ve had meeting them. Refer to this list whenever you find yourself facing a new challenge you’re not sure you can overcome.

• Predict and Prepare
  • Sudden unexpected change is shocking.
  • So, take a proactive approach and get ahead of any potential challenges you might face.
  • Set aside time regularly to strategize.
  • Consider anything that might happen and develop a plan to deal with each contingency.
  • When there is a big change, even something negative, you’ll be able to face it prepared and with confidence.

• Banish Your Inner Critic
  • Get rid of negative self-talk and limiting beliefs that are destroying your confidence.
  • We each have an inner critic who tells us we can’t do it.
  • When you’re facing a sudden change, it’s a perfect situation for this inner critic to come along and derail you. This is a bad habit of thinking and like any other habit, you can break it and replace it with another.
    • Create some positive affirmations that you can use to combat it.
    • Learn to rephrase negative thoughts into positive ones.

• Surround Yourself with Positive People
  • How we feel about change is an essential part of our mindset.
  • The way we think rubs off on others, so surround yourself with people who are success and growth minded and approach change positively.
  • You can draw on their positivism for inspiration whenever you need it.

• Look at the Big Picture
  • Change is usually just a bump in the road.
  • It means you might have a tough time this week, this month, or this quarter.
  • But if you look at the big picture, you will often see that this change opens the door to new opportunities.
  • Try to foster this perspective the moment change strikes, and you’ll deal with it more calmly.

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