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How to Live on Purpose

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Accidents happen.  Your life, however, shouldn’t be one of them.  When I imagine someone who truly embodies a graduated and clueless lifestyle, I picture a wanderer, someone with no direction, no purpose, and no real understanding of anything beyond the present moment.  This person probably has a history of success and productivity but for one reason or another has no real focus at the moment.  In addition, this clueless chap has no idea how to begin the journey to discover a future life worth pursuing.  Don’t get me wrong, living in the present is the best and only way to live.  All life is lived in the present.  The past is a memory and the future is a projection, both of which only exist in our mind and that take us away from the present moment.  Therefore, the goal is to make our present moment more useful, more productive, more purposeful, driven, and meaningful.  Ultimately, your mission is to live with great intention in all things you do.  Living on purpose is grounded in clarity of thought, clarity of intention, and clarity of action.

Clarity of Thought

Thinking is not natural.  In fact, real hard core thinking is a very refined skill that most people rarely engage in.  In order to utilize the vast power of (more…)

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Life is based around your ability and willingness to serve others.  It may not seem that way as you grow up because most people are serving you.  As a kid, your parents put you first, or at least they should.  In school, your teachers make every effort to help you grow.  However, as you’ve probably noticed, in the real world and in business, you don’t have an advocate.  You don’t have someone holding your hand through the process.  You’re on your own and you have to make the experience amazing for yourself.  The most direct, efficient, and effective way to maximize your own experience is to focus on other people.  It sounds backwards but it works every time.  Think about exercise where you actually tear down your muscles in order for your body to repair them.  It seems counter intuitive, but the result is that your muscles grow back stronger than before.  In order to reach the life that you want, whether in your career, finances, relationships, physical ability, or otherwise, always find ways to put others before yourself and you’ll be amazed at the results.

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I recently finished reading the book, GOALS! – How to Get Everything You Want Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible by Brian Tracy.  It’s a fantastic book if you’re at all interested in using your time wisely, staying focused, and accomplishing a ton of stuff.  In the book Brian discusses many ways to create goals that really allow you to reach your true potential instead of wasting your time on goals that don’t get you what you want.  If you’re stuck in a job you can’t stand, or are currently in the market for changing your life direction, or you simply want to double check that you’re actually on the correct life path, check out the goal-setting strategy below.  I’ve modified one of Brian’s strategies, so please credit him for this idea.  It’s an incredible exercise in figuring out what really matters and focusing on those things every day.  Let me know in the comments below what you think about it and what you would change.

Awesome Goal Setting Strategy

As you create each of the lists below, always write your dreams, goals, and strategies in the present tense and (more…)

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Writing snuck up on me as a thing that I now do.  I never considered myself a writer and I never would have guessed that I would have started a blog, be in the midst of writing a book, or actually planning a career based on new ways to connect with others through my writing.  It’s a whirlwind of newness and awesomeness that I stumbled upon a few years after college.  I’ve been writing all my life but always for someone else, teachers mostly.  I spent years writing essays, short stories, plays, articles, and other knick knack pieces for school and work assignments.

I started a journal three different times and I’ve never maintained it for more than a couple weeks.  I don’t do journals.  It doesn’t work for me to simply sit and write about my life in hopes that I can garner some insight into my (more…)

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Bold action is the one remedy for really obnoxious problems.  It gets you out of bed in the morning.  It eliminates mediocrity.  It produces success that you have been dreaming about.  However, bold action requires risk taking, bravery, and a willingness to fail.  Being willing to put yourself on the line for what you care about and believe in is one of the fundamental building blocks of bold action.  In the last few months of my life I have experienced radical change and vast improvement in many areas, due in no small part to my own willingness to take bold action as often as possible.  What is bold action?  It’s doing the big stuff, the hard stuff, the stuff that you know will change your life but that you have put off due to any number of excuses.  Bold action is difficult.  It’s time consuming, expensive, risky, and may back fire on you for any number of reasons.  Why would anyone want to take bold action?  Because it get results every time.  Seriously.  Bold action will almost always produce a result that teaches you a grand lesson, creates enormous success, or at least provides the basis for a really great story to tell your grand kids someday.

Characteristics of Bold Action

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Immediately following graduation you will most likely find yourself wandering one big question, what’s next?  At the end of every semester, sometimes immediately following my last final exam, I would have this pit-in-the-stomach feeling that I had forgotten something.  I would have a mild panic attack and freak out as my mind and body came to terms with the fact that I was actually done with everything and could relax.  After your last semester of college you have every right to relax completely.  Don’t worry about what’s next, just yet.  This is the best time take up yoga, watch a good movie, go on vacation to Costa Rica, or lay out at the pool until you’re extra crispy.  Your parents will be hounding you to get a job, but don’t do that.  Seriously.  Take some time to chill out.  After you feel fully rejuvenated, and when you’re ready, begin to work through the next 3 steps.  Over the next few years just let your life take the course you were destined for.  Do your best to ignore advice from parents or anyone else who you believe doesn’t understand you.  This is your time to do some serious soul searching.  Getting a job at a bank just to please your parents won’t do you any good.

“The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance;

it is the illusion of knowledge.”

- Daniel J. Boorsti

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I was recently introduced to an online service that I wish I had known about in school.  It’s called Student of Fortune and it’s a web-based tutoring service for college students to get help with their homework.  Anyone can join the site as a tutor and then as you answer questions for the students you get paid.  Here’s the description from the company:

“If you’re a student, just post a question you’re struggling with. We’ll send your question to all of the tutors on Student of Fortune, and those expert in the subject will write custom tutorials to teach you how to answer your difficult homework assignment (and others like it). Pick a tutorial that looks good, buy it, follow up with questions until your aha! moment, learn the material, and ace all of your classes!  If you’re expert on a subject, write great tutorials to earn lots of money, even thousands of dollars… all for helping students to learn!” StudentofFortune.com

This business model is very fascinating and (more…)

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