
The Things That Excite You Are Not Random
GUN TO YOUR HEAD š« IF YOU HAD TO LEAVE THE HOUSE ALL DAY, EVERY DAY, WHERE WOULD YOU GO AND WHAT WOULD YOU DO?
For many of us, the enemy is just old-fashioned complacency. We get into our routines. We distract ourselves. The couch is comfortable. And nothing new happens.
This is a problem.
Discovering what youāre passionate about in life and what matters to you is a full-contact sport, a trial-and-error process. None of us know exactly how we feel about an activity until we actually do the activity.
So ask yourself, if someone put a gun to your head and forced you to leave your house every day for everything except for sleep, how would you choose to occupy yourself? And no, you canāt just go sit in a coffee shop and browse Facebook. Where would you go and what would you do?
Sign up for ? Join a ? Go get another ? Invent a new form of ? Learn to ?
What would you do with all of that time?
When people feel like they have no sense of direction, no purpose in their life, itās because they donāt know whatās important to them, they donāt know what their values are.
And when you donāt know what your values are, then youāre essentially taking on other peopleās values and living other peopleās priorities instead of your own. This is a one-way ticket to eventual misery.
Discovering oneās āpurposeā in life essentially boils down to finding those one or two things that are bigger than yourself, and bigger than those around you. Itās not about some great achievement, but merely finding a way to spend your limited amount of time well!