Lesson two. This lesson is called "How to establish your 'why'", and it will show you
how to determine what motivates you in life. So to sum it up, your 'why' is what your passion is.
This is what separates humans from other animals in my opinion, it's our desire to thrive, not just
simply survive. So we all have this vision of what our perfect ideal life looks like and this
is a vision that's in our head, and something that is commonly referred to as the originator
of your 'why' is a Ted Talk by Simon Sinek and it talks about how great leaders inspire action,
and what he describes is that your 'why' is your purpose. It's the reason you get up in the
morning. It's what motivates you to take action. It's what keeps you focused each and every day.
No one has the power to take purpose from you, but while it is yours many can share your purpose.
Aligning shared passions, shared beliefs, and shared value is how one find common purpose.
So what does that mean? That means that your 'why' is why you wake up in the morning.
The reason this lesson is important and the reason I included it is because you need to know what
your why is. You need to know what your purpose is because this is what is going to help you
when time gets tough, and the truth is, no one has the power to take your purpose from you.
But while it might be yours many people might be motivated by the same thing
so when you start to look at other people's common purposes you'll start to understand what motivates
you and this is really going to help you and this is how millionaires act and how they think.
They're very very aligned with their purpose and everything they do is with that in mind.
So to find your purpose, how to establish your why first look for patterns in your life to find what
your why is. Looking at what you do what you do with your time off, what do you spend your money
on, so ask yourself what motivates you. For me personally like we spoke about previously, the
freedom of everything, the personal professional and financial freedom is what motivates me.
But for you it might not be the freedom that much, it might just be being able to
provide for your family. It might be being able to take time off for when you want be in control
of your own schedule or it might be to just have nicer things in life and live in a nicer area and
have a nicer car. There's nothing wrong with that but dig a little bit deeper and ask yourself what
really motivates you at your core if you had all the money in the world what would you be doing.
Dissect what your perfect life looks like, start to break it down and and ask yourself why do you
want the things you want? That's going to help you establish what your why is and like we said before
you know everyone is inspired by different things and that's one of the other beautiful things
about freelancing is that it helps you achieve what you want. It's all about what you make it
and if money wasn't an object dissect it more what would your life look like? What would you
do not only like what car would you drive and what house would you live in? Like we said before but
go deeper even than that...what would you do every day if you didn't physically have to work? Because
as humans we want to contribute to things and once you're not kind of stuck in that vicious cycle of
paycheck to paycheck just paying your bills that's when you can actually do what you want and that
is what your passion is. So if you're not at that level yet that is what freelancing can do for you
and you need to shift your mindset and understand that you need to have passion in the back of your
head with everything you do and then what mark do you want to leave on this world. Ask yourself what
do you want your legacy to be? So for me I want to empower myself and others to have true freedom
over their lives. For you it might be something else and that is what you need to tap into.
This is what is going to really help you start up, it's going to help you get off the ground because
your why is your fuel it's what motivates you when things get tough. So what I recommend right
now is to write down what your why is, and not just right now, but every single day. I like to
do it in the morning. You can you know type it out you there's a lot of power of physically writing
things down and journaling and just taking that couple seconds will help align your mind, it will
remind you why you're doing all of these things because it's not easy to become super successful
but when you do the things you know you have to do and that you're learning in this program and
you keep your why and your purpose in your heart, it makes it completely possible and achievable.