Having A Reason Why

 What's your reason why?

Everyday the sunrises, the sunsets, Everyday, you grow a day older. Everyday, life doesn't stop. We see videos online, we hear lots of advice and we experience lots of surrounding noise. How do we keep to our own identity, stick to our own life promises: guiding ourselves towards who we want to be, with so many of life's obstacles in the way? 


Everyone sees the world in their own way. What's special about it all is that everyone has their own experience of living on this earth. Jimmy Carr once said, "the key to happiness is being in your flow state for as much as possible in life". This pinpoints focusing on spending time doing things you love, being with those you love and refining your life to your identity and purpose.

The idea of purpose is an interesting concept. A lot of people feel like they don't have a sense of it. That's okay. It doesn't need to be a certain thing: it can apply to what's said above about being in a, 'flow state'. As Jimmy Carr also said, it's not the pursuit of happiness: it's the happiness of the pursuit.

"A lot of us spend our lives planning how to live it, rather than actually living it" - Mo Gawdat. It's important to focus on the here and now, being present. How can we live this way?

  • Set yourself short term goals - I like to call these, 'Journey Goals' - goals which you set yourself to focus on the process of getting to where you want to be. These, 'Journey Goals' effectively lead towards creating, 'Destination Goals.' This isn't the final boss of life, however, these can be seen as checkpoints you're passing, like in a game. There is no final destination: the destination is with you everyday. That destination is you, how you feel on a day to day basis.
  • Check in on yourself: reflect. - Sometimes I like to go, "Okay, it's 4pm on the 12th October 2024, how am I today?" I ask myself how I have progressed in recent months and years? What have I been up to recently? How do I feel at this moment? Have I been sticking to my identity? Have I been following my inner feelings of who I want to be?

In essence, I'm trying to say when you get that feeling like time is no longer a thing: stick to that. Be in that flow state as much as possible and work around it to align yourself with your core values and put these out into the world. Be yourself and help others be authentic to who they want to be too. Have a reason why.



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