- How do you want to spend your
precious time on earth?
Get present, find your purpose,
find your direction, and you will have
absolute clarity on your direction.
And you will know instinctively,
if the project you're working on
if the company you're working at
if the dream you're following is gonna take you
to the place that you want to be.
It's all about discovering your driving force.
And in this video that's exactly what I'm gonna talk about.
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How do you know that what you're pursuing
is the right thing for you?
How do you know that what you're spending
your time on is the thing that's gonna,
you know, is the thing that really does it for you?
That you've found the right thing.
Now, for me, I don't think really about
actual kind of project that I'm working on.
I think more about what's my passion what's my purpose?
So, this whole idea of is this the right venture for me?
Is this the right project for me
to be spending my time on?
Excuse me.
The answer to this question is also the answer
to a number of other questions.
Like, how do you smash through challenges
when they come up.
How do you stay committed,
how do you pick yourself up when the world is against you?
You're back's against the wall
and everything's going wrong?
The answer to all of these is the same,
and it's all about discovering your driving force.
And your driving force, or your ultimate vision.
Or your ultimate purpose.
Is answering the question, why?
Like, why, what is my purpose in life?
It's the age old question which you've probably heard
or been taught before.
Is that fast forward, 10 years, 20 years, 30 years.
You know, if you died in 10 years time,
or you're on your death bed in 10 years time.
What do you want to look back on your life
and say, I've achieved (snaps),
what have I lived (snaps) with?
What's my purpose (snaps) been?
And when you kind of get present to that,
it's such a big overall factor,
with real clarity on that.
You just know instinctively whether what you're choosing
to spend your time on is consistent with that or not.
And I actually think that that
it's not a hard process to go through.
So, I've got mine, which is this is something
that which I'll do a separate video about.
My manifesto for life.
Which is actually a book capturing my vision for life.
And it's something which I
update in more detail once a year,
and put my year's goals in.
And in every quarter, I look at it in more detail.
Tweek my goals where I need to.
I refer to it, sort of daily, or weekly.
And it starts with a summary statement
of my life and my purpose, my why.
For me it's about freedom, I live freedom everyday.
Freedom to dream, freedom to grow, freedom to achieve.
Freedom to live.
That's my life, my why, my dream, my reality.
And for me, that really drives me, right?
I want to know that I'm making
the most of my short time on earth.
I want to live in a way, which is truly consistent
with the fact that this is
the first and the only time that I will be on earth.
And when I really get present to that.
I then start to say, well, what's really important to me?
You know?
Do I really want to spend my precious time,
that's ticking away since we've been sitting down
right now we've already expended 32 minutes of our lives.
Which we will never ever get back.
And that is such a real thing,
which I really think we really need to get present to.
And people take for granted.
And we really really get present to that.
Accept that, absorb that, take responsibility for that.
And ask us the questions, what do we want?
Then,
we know if, the more practical matters
do I really feel I wanna be spending my time on this?
Do I really feel I wanna be spending my time on that?
And it all starts to fall into place.
So, I get my why, which is kind of the softer stuff.
I want to you know, live life to the maximum.
Live freedom, enjoy every aspect of my life.
And then the next step which is similar to my purpose.
Is my vision, when I then say again in 10 years time,
what are the types of things I want
to be about to say about myself?
And those things talk about, in the business context.
I talk about, stuff like, ya know
I'm a dynamic charismatic leader.
I'm an inspirational leader in business.
You know, I've created a 10 billion pound company.
This type of stuff.
And it's quite high level, and relatively vague.
And so I get my reason why.
I get kind of the specific things
that are consistent with that.
And then everything filters down from there.
And, it's, it's so key, because when we have
this idea of, imagine when you're standing there
and you've got a peg, which is now.
And if you're into the space of time
put your peg in the future.
Which you get clarity on by understanding
your purpose and what it is.
And then, attach a string between them.
Right? It's never gonna be a straight line.
It's gonna be a volatile line,
it's not even gonna be up and down going in that direction.
It's gonna be, (whirring) like it's gonna be
like some weird line.
As long as you're heading in that direction, right?
But with that line, with that trend line tagged.
By knowing where you are now, and where you want to get to.
It becomes really obvious to you.
Like, if that project is going
in the right direction or not.
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