Traveling with your parents? Playing in the sand? Write these things down to reveal a beautiful matrix of all the things that made you happy. Chances are, most of them can also be the answer you need. When searching for your true calling, it may be a good idea to follow people who have already found it!
Most of us chase money all of our lives, and all our life decisions are based on this factor. However, sit down and visualize your life as if you had all the money in the world. And that is the perfect place and time to create a change in your life, and take that first step towards your dreams. If you are striving to find happiness, it may be closer than you think. You may not even need to find that mystical purpose everyone keeps talking about. Have a look at your life and think about what you are doing right.
What makes me happy in day to day life? Once you have figured out these factors, you can strive to eliminate them from your life and replace them with something that is giving you good emotions. Not only will you immediately feel more positive, but it will open up your schedule for things that actually give you joy.
And hey, once all the dirt, and sadness, and bad things are removed from your life… Nothing is clouding your sight anymore and it gets so much easier to see what excites you! It is in that why that we will find common threads which lead us to happiness. What that leaves us with is a choice! We must choose how we are going to react and conduct ourselves going forward despite all that.
It is in this choice that we find liberation, contentment, empowerment and of course, happiness. The state of the world is what it is, we can either bemoan the negatives, or we can CHOOSE to adopt the most positive attitude despite it. It is in that choice that will determine our happiness in this thing we call life. Have you ever notice there are some people who are perpetually happy or optimistic? Now our natural instinct would be to say one job was great, the other was terrible.
However, after some reflection we can determine that what really makes us happy is having great coworkers. We could take that even further to say, we thrive off of having positive people around us in all aspects of life. Go through a few days, just jotting down your likes and dislikes, keeping notes and taking time to reflect on each of the things you write down.
With these written down, think about what they mean to you. Think about why they made their way on to the paper. It can be a good time to just sit back and consider these things. Think about ways you can do more of what makes you happy and what ways can you minimize what makes you unhappy.
The trick to finding you happy place is finding the deeper truths and building a strategy to benefit from that understanding. Here is a concrete example from my own life: Continuing the job example, the deeper truth was that to be happy I needed to have positive people in my life.
I realized one day that if I could find a job with people I like working with and a position that was constantly presenting challenges that require creative solutions, I was very happy. That was when I started developing questions to ask in an interview to help me determine if that job met those two criteria. If you are ready to begin the process of truly understanding who you are meant to be, start here:.
The risk of failure terrifies most people. How many times have you wanted to change jobs or careers, move to a new city, promote a cause that is important you, or become an expert in a certain area? Think about it. No risk of failure. If you were percent certain that you could be or do anything you wanted and not fail, do you know the answer? Probably the most important and poorly answered question in most job interviews, this is similar in nature.
You can certainly include your career or career accomplishments in your personal speech, but think of this from the perspective of how you might answer this if you were making a new friend or going on a first date with someone. How would you describe yourself so that the person asking the question would truly understand who you are and what is important to you? Personal values are the things that you believe are important in the way you live.
They give you a reference for what is good, beneficial, important, useful, desirable, and constructive. Once you are able to determine exactly what values are most important to you, you can better determine your priorities. In fact, having this information about yourself is the key to making sure your daily life is aligned with those values. If you need help defining your personal values, there is a great five-minute assessment tool here.
This one is closely related to your core personal values. For example, if family is one of your core personal values, will taking a job that involves tons of travel make you happy? Take it a step further and really consider dreams you had when you were younger or currently have about what will make you truly happy.
Many people equate happiness and success directly to the amount of money they have. You may not be able to do those exact things, but once you know what those true desires are, you expand your thinking and begin to develop a plan to work towards goals you may have never imagined possible. These are tough questions and the answers may not come easily or quickly. In fact, I found myself having to think and re-think my answers several times.
This work is hard but necessary in order to really understanding yourself on a deeper level. My dreams of writing about things that are truly meaningful to me, finding a fulfilling and passionate relationship, being more present with my children, and discovering a higher power are all coming true now that I am focusing my energy in the right direction—and that direction was to look within.
So, find a quiet place and allow yourself plenty of time to go through and really think about each question and then just go for it.
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