first and most important thing is to
find new north star at the core of it is
just knowing what is important to you
and just
remind yourself of what's most important
why are you so unfulfilled why do you
feel like your life has no meaning
if you don't know what's important to
you if you don't know your why if you
don't have north star okay
why why am i doing any of the things
that i'm doing
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hello swedish potatoes welcome back this
past year we talked a lot about knowing
what's most essential to us
so we can prioritize our lives
accordingly but how do we even go about
identifying our values
and what's most important to us to begin
with and to take it a step
back why is it even important to have a
why or
a life purpose in today's video we'll be
going over the importance of having
clarity of purpose
how having a clear purpose leads to
clear values leads to clear plans leads
to clear
daily habits and how to find your
purpose identify your values define your
plans and execute your daily habits
to be your best and most productive self
if this sounds familiar we are using the
same framework for my system versus
schools video but again we're going to
be taking a much
much much much deeper dive with prompts
reflection questions as well as a
digital worksheet
so why is it important to have a why a
purpose
cause and belief for doing anything and
everything
that you do three things number one it
is your first step
in living your most conscious and
intentional life
number two it gives you direction
remember my mom's analogy of how to eat
an elephant
the answer is piece by piece
but before we go around munching on all
the elephants
it'll be helpful to know which one to
eat
the blue one the purple one the pink one
with sprinkles
therefore our why serves simultaneously
as a starting point a direction and
a destination number three the element
of choice when we start doing things
because we want to
not because of what we think we should
or what our parents or what our society
is telling us to do
when we finally internalize what we want
for ourselves this
is where the magic happens
all that being said i'm not gonna sit
here and pretend like i'm a magical
fairy who can wave my wand and
you guys will be able to find your life
purpose but we can always start small
and start chipping away at what's most
important to us
so how do we find our life purpose
how do we eat an elephant breaking it
down into smaller
bite-sized pieces let's start with our
values
when people say what should i do with my
life or what is my life purpose
what they're actually asking is what can
i do with my time that is important
to know what to do with your time that's
important it's helpful to first define
what's most important
to you we created a digital worksheet
for you on notion to make your life
easier as well as an online community on
viably for us to reflect together
and keep each other accountable both
linked
down below if you've been following
along our how to potato your life
challenge
take a moment to review what you wrote
for week one and week two to remind
yourself of when
you felt the most you
if this is the first video you're
watching from me no worries at all just
think back to when you're the happiest
and most at ease what were you doing
who were you with where were you
physically mentally spiritual
emotionally anything lee
why did these moments stick out to you
now that we're in a reflective and feel
good mood
we're primed and ready to start taking a
stab at
our life buckets looking at this list of
values
which four areas of your life are most
essential really take the time to look
inward
to dig deeply and ask yourself which
four
values do i care about the most
different seasons bring about different
priorities in our lives so there really
is no right or wrong answer just want to
make that very clear
pick what's most true to you pick what's
most authentic to you if you guys
watched my how i wrote my life together
video
a long long time ago this should look
very familiar this was an exercise i did
every single new year
when i was in college i would get
colored post-it notes four different
color post-it notes for four different
life buckets of my life
and this really helped to compose me and
help give me direction
in a really really turbulent time in my
life now
my life buckets are family
spirituality work
and community this is your life these
are your values make it however you want
them to make it you don't need to
justify it to anyone
but yourself now that you've identified
your four
life buckets or your four values time to
start
prioritizing them by the order of
importance with the first one being most
important
so having put mine in order the first
one is spirituality
the second is family slash relationships
the third one is work slash creativity
and the fourth one is community and
giving
now that we're clear on our values let's
get clear on
our plans i don't know what my hands
doing today
okay time for a little life audit
for the four life bucket we chose we're
going to answer these questions
for every single one of them why did i
choose this value where was i at the end
of 2019
where am i now at the end of 2020 and
how satisfied am i with where i'm
at where would i like to be in 2021
in other words where and how can i
improve as we always say before looking
forward it'll be helpful
to look backward for spirituality the
reason why it is the first and most
important priority for me is because to
do this wall means to do everything else
well
my keystone habit for mental wellness
stillness and calm
what gives me meaning in my life and
everything that i do so where was i
at the end of 2019 this is actually
something i was reflecting on
in my decade in review
last year's decade in review finding my
purpose and my calling with the help of
dafa which is my spiritual practice
through daffa i was able to find meaning
inner stoneless and calm i've never felt
in my life previously
through dafa i was able to commit myself
to projects and dreams
much much bigger than myself first my
channel
then to beauty within without dapha i
would not be who i
am today nor will i be where i am today
i also wrote that i needed to be more
consistent with meditating and reading
which i still need to be
today where am i now in 2020. the
cultivation the continual refinement and
betterment
of my being will always be a constant
thing that being said
this year has been the most inconsistent
year that i've had in terms of
meditation and reading which are things
that
i know can help me feel calm and
grounded as with all things
awareness is the first step and then
just
petaling to the metal doing something
about it which is what we'll get to
later on in this video here's where i
wrote for where i'd like to be in 2021
my second value or life bucket is family
slash relationships i put the two
together because i feel like a lot of
friends are like family and family
is like friends so it's just two happy
family go into one together so why
is this number two it's because human
connection
is essential as humans we're social
beings we need to socialize we need to
interact with the world as much as i
thought that i can just be happy and
alone by myself which i think it's still
possible
very possible i also know that to be
able to do
all the things that i want to do to be
able to help the people that i want to
help i can't just be locked up
in my own little cave for the rest of my
life so that's why it's there
the next pillar is the work pillar and
this is my
little purpose statement that i wrote
last year in my
how to rebrand yourself how to get your
life together video creating meaningful
positive and uplifting content to give
hope and help others be their best and
most productive selves
so that they can find meaning in what is
truly
essential my fourth value is community
why
talked about this so much within the
past few weeks i learned this year that
loneliness is less about being
physically alone and more about not
having quality
and meaningful connections and another
part of it is i want to pay it forward
so people who have inspired me to people
who have encouraged me to people who
don't even know that i exist and don't
even know that they've helped me
people like tim ferriss and everyone
that he brings onto his show all
of these entrepreneurs all of these
successful people
who create content to help others
inspires a little potato like me to
create content
to help others as well if you guys
remember from the how to system versus
goals video we talked about how it's
important to identify where you
currently are and where you want to be
the current state versus desired state
exercise
this is basically the same framework
where you look at where you currently
are and where you want to be
so that we can bridge
getting clear on your daily habits is
all about turning
your plans into action less thinking and
planning
more doing less focus on the goal more
focused
on the systems and as a quick refresher
what is the difference between a goal
and a system in james clear's atomic
habits
a goal is a result you want to achieve a
system is a process that leads to those
results
think of it this way goals versus
systems is like destination versus
journey
performance versus practice short term
versus
long term goals give you direction
systems
keep you going refer back to the life
audit we just performed on our four
values
if there is a gap between where you
currently are and where you want to be
why does the gap currently exist do i
want to bridge it
if so how can i bridge it these are some
questions that you can ask yourself what
do i have to do in order to achieve my
desired 2021
what are the actionable steps i can take
where can i make adjustments
what small daily incremental changes can
i commit to
write down everything you can think of
for systems then break it down
into a daily habit you can do every
single day for spirituality the systems
i came up with was
wake up earlier so that you can make
time to meditate and read before the
day's craziness
journal regularly not only when your
life is simuling in shambles it will
help you look inward and reflect and the
habit i pulled out of that that i
distracted out of that
is to wake up early you have to sleep
early so how can i sleep early
be disciplined with myself tell my
significant other
i can't talk too late into the night
since we're in different time zones
create a wind-down routine that's just
delightful so i'm sure there's a lot of
other things i can sit down and think
more of but these are just the things
that came front of mind
and as with anything and everything that
we do i think it's so
important and great for us to review our
reflections
on like a monthly basis just to add to
it check in with ourselves and to keep
ourselves accountable for family the
systems that i came up with was make
time work less delicate better
write down a list of every single person
who made 2020 special for you look back
on it monthly and to reach out say thank
you or just something as simple as i'm
thinking of you
schedule calls send them gifts whenever
you come across something that reminds
you of them just because the habit i
pulled out of that is call one friend a
month to catch up this may not seem like
much but
when you call a friend and catch up you
guys usually start
texting and will continue going off of
the conversation that you had so i think
that's actually pretty great for work in
terms of not having enough time to think
or dream of new projects
make time block of time be more
proactive with scheduling meetings that
may not bring immediate short-term
results but rather long-term benefits so
that is with helping
growing my team and out of that the
habits two habits i pulled out set aside
two hours each week to dream and start
chipping away at the projects
the second thing for team building is
schedule bi-monthly cost to offload what
i know and how i do things in the team
so they can help me improve my process
as for learning i want to absorb more i
want to read more i want to learn more
but i just
lose myself in social media sometimes
without even knowing specifically on
instagram
so the system that i came up with was
pick up a book when you only have five
to ten minutes to kill
use apps like force to stay off your
phone set aside 10 minutes a day to read
commit to learning something new every
week on platforms like skillshare or
simply follow your curiosity and google
away the habit that it pulls out of this
is spending five to ten minutes learning
every single day
using the time that you would have been
scrolling on your phone
aimlessly and mindlessly for like five
ten minutes which turns into an hour so
here are some more examples that we
shared in
our system versus goals video that i
just put on the screen and you guys can
pause if you want to read it
if you want to take an even deeper dive
or get another perspective of how to set
systems for your life how to set the
best habits for your life i highly
recommend watching
fellow youtube creator thomas frank's
productivity master class
create a custom system that works on
skillshare
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a free trial of skillshare premium
membership and as we mentioned in the
past
assess adjust and enjoy the process
don't be afraid to take a step back and
make changes to your systems if need be
they're here to help us not to hold us
back or make us feel suffocated in this
video we identify what's most important
and essential to us
along with creating systems and habits
to go along with what we want to do and
where we want to go in next week's video
we're going to create our own self-care
toolkit this is a continuation of the
energy versus time management
video series where we talked about
having a repertoire of self-care
toolkit and self-care habits for us to
refer
back on whenever we need and how to
schedule it
into our days and with that if you guys
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