All of this time you are putting into this – has a payoff.
You might have tried our courses in Decluttering your home (and Life), Mastering and Streamlining your time – and this is no different.
This whole exercise is designed to simplify your future decision-making.
We spend so much mental effort and physical energy, trying to decide what’s best.
Weighing things up.
Pros and cons.
For some people, this can produce ‘decision-fatigue’, and a feeling of overwhelm.
Worrying whether you are doing the right thing often means you end up taking no action at all.
This is where your Life Purpose statements can actually be your superpower.
If you know your values and have developed them into your Life Purpose Statements,
when you have an incoming decision… life just got easier.
It becomes a YES or NO answer.
Does the decision meet with your values/Life Purpose Statements – or not.
Let’s say you are faced with the prospect of a better-paid job,
but it is going to add hours of commute a week, be extra pressure and leave little free time.
And you had already decided that one of your Life Purpose Statements was:
“Calmness: I will live life gently and mindfully, serenely savouring my moments.”
Then it’s a no-brainer.
It’s just not going to work.
You can confidently say no and put it out of your mind, sure in the knowledge that you’re doing the right thing.
And let’s say someone asks you to join them to train for a triathlon…
and you’d already decided that one of your Value/Life Purpose Statements is:
“Adventure: I will continually challenge myself whilst sharing fun and camaraderie in the nature I love so much.”
Well, you are going to have to blow your bike tyres up – because you’ve got some serious miles to rack up
ACTION:
Bring to mind a decision that you might need to make,
or have needed to make recently.
Without thinking about how it affects anyone else
(which, let’s face it – is often our default),
run it past those Life Purpose Statements, that you worked so hard to create.
- Which answer fits?
- Which doesn’t?
- Is it a Yes?
- Or No.