eliminate false objectives
To live your extraordinary life, you’ll need to live
YOUR life, not somebody else’s.
Often, we live our lives how others want us to
live. We build our daily habits and schedules
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around what our families, friends, and society
want for us. We are a product of our
surroundings.
It takes guts to live your life according to your
true priorities, especially when your priorities
differ from the people around you. When you
have the courage to build your life around what
matters most to you, you live authentically and
your days become filled with a stronger sense of
purpose and fulfillment.
Remember:
In today’s high-pressure, crazy-busy world, it is
very easy to stray away from your true priorities
and build a life around false objectives. False
objectives are the goals you’re working toward
that don’t align with what matters most to you
and the person you most want to be.
For some people, climbing the corporate ladder
is a false objective because they desire more
than anything to take some time away from their
career to stay home with their young kids. For
others, having a large home mortgage is a false
objective, because they would love the freedom
to travel the world.
In order to feel fulfilled, it’s important to closely
evaluate your life and be 100% honest with
yourself on the following questions:
What matters most to you?
What false objectives are you working
toward?
It’s important to identify and eliminate the false
objectives in your life. When you eliminate the
false objectives, you begin focusing your life on
what matters most to you; and, it gives you the
space to create your authentic, extraordinary life.
2. Develop a crystal-clear vision of
the life you desire
As you define your true priorities, you can start
developing a vision for the life you desire.
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How will you build your life around your
priorities?
Write down everything you can think of about the
life you desire. Then work on believing it’s
possible to achieve it. This can be really difficult,
but it’s crucial.
If traveling is one of your biggest priorities, and
you deeply desire to create a freedom-based
career with a laptop lifestyle allowing you to work
from anywhere in the world, you’ll need to
believe it’s possible. If deep down you believe
that it’s not possible for you to break free from
the 9-5 in the cubicle, you won’t take the steps
necessary to break free from the office.
If you say writing is very important to you and
your biggest ambition is to become a New York
Times bestselling author, but deep down you
believe that you’ll never finish writing your book,
the actions you take every day are going to align
with your disbelief. When you’re not feeling
motivated to write, you won’t. When you’re
feeling defeated, you’ll quit.
What you believe about yourself–and what you
believe is possible for yourself–affects how you
show up every day to achieve your biggest goal.
Get clear about the life you desire, and work on
believing it’s possible to achieve it.
3. Create a plan to achieve your
vision
Let’s use the bestselling author example again.
If your biggest ambition is to become a New York
Times bestselling author, because you want to
write about a topic that matters a lot to you and
make a difference in the lives of many with your
words, you’ll need a plan to achieve that vision.
Hope is not a strategy. You’ll need a plan.
You’ll need to develop a writing habit. You’ll need
to research how to get published. You’ll need to
learn how to effectively market the book or how
to hire somebody to market it for you.
Create a specific plan and give yourself deadlines
to achieve it. Use SMART goal to outline your
plan:
4. Deal with resistance effectively
Every day, when you are working on building
your life around your true priorities and your big
vision, you’ll face resistance. Your life will
probably look something like this:
This resistance occurs in many forms including:
Fear of failure
Fear of success
Fear of standing out from the crowd
Fear that what you believe is possible maybe
isn’t really possible for you
Feeling tired or unmotivated
Distractions
Interruptions
You will be bombarded every day with many
things that attempt to distract you away from
your true priorities.
It’s important to run YOUR race, live YOUR life,
focus on what matters to YOU, and build your life
around YOUR vision .
You’ll face a lot of resistance, and it’s important
to have strategies in place to deal with your
resistance effectively, so you’re able to stay on
track even during tough times.
Final Thoughts
When you’re clear about what you truly desire
and what matters most to you, and you develop
a plan to achieve your big vision, everything
changes.
You feel more focused and you make decisions
that align with your true priorities.
You find the purpose of life.
You show up with more passion and enthusiasm.
You build your life around what matters most to
you, and life becomes very fulfillin
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