Making a decision doesn’t mean that you’ll take irresponsible actions, it means you take 100% responsibility and pick the direction you want to move towards. It could mean quitting your job (if you have the back-up and a clear path), moving to a new place or slowly transitioning into your new life and making small bold decisions as you move forward.
But you must decide. If you don’t, you’ll always stay in your head and fear will paralyze you before you know it.
Embrace the exploration mindset where you find out what’s meaningful to you by trying it out. By now, you’ll at least have a general sense of what direction you want to pick.
No matter what you pick, you must take daily actions towards success starting today. It’s okay if you find out later that it isn’t really something you want to do, but you’ll never know unless you give it a shot.
Today’s action is simple: Write your personal mission statement. Here are a few examples of strong life purposes from Leo Gura:
- To be the best hairstylist in the world
- To be a motivational speaker
- To write novels that change people’s lives
- To create music that makes people happy
- To advance our understanding of biology
- To help abandoned animals find good homes
- To teach the next generation of kids how to think
- To reduce government corruption
- To defend the homeland
- To create technologies that change people’s lives for the better
- To create movies that make people think
- To help people get control over their own health
- To help people overcome drug addiction
- To transform the quality of public education
- To transform the healthcare system
- To create a chain of healthy fast-food restaurants
- To teach people how to invest in stocks
- To counsel couples through divorce
- To design new toys for kids
- To change the auto industry
- To develop and promote new types of green energy
- To play in the NFL
Now complete the following sentences:
I give myself permission to…
I’m here to…
I want to experience…
I want to help…[/text_block]
