Let me be clear: I enjoy working, but on my terms. One of the most draining experiences of my life has been working out of alignment with my work needs. I wouldn’t be nearly as productive if I had to spend most of my energy trying to conform my work style with a one-size-fits-all standard. Most likely the ingredients for your personal productivity will be different from other people as well. The needs I listed above are the ingredients that optimize my “personal productivity.” It’s not what makes everyone productive, but it’s what makes me productive. You might not be either, and it may be the cause of your stress. I also want the freedom to decide how much time I spend with my family.Īs you might imagine, I’m not cut out for the 9-to-5. I want the value of my work to be based on the quality of my output, not the amount of time I “put in” at the office.Īdditionally, I need to spend at least an hour a day performing a physical activity outside like walking, yard work or paddle boarding to energize myself. I also prefer a mix of working on my own and collaborating with others a few times a week. I think many of us don’t like working because we don’t work in a way that makes sense to us.įor example, my peak performance period for work occurs around 7 am to 12 pm each day. We’ve all been taught to work in a way that might not seem natural to us as individuals. How would you like to work? What have you always wanted to do for work? Why do you work? I’m giving you permission to answer those questions as honestly as possible. Here are the key “subjects” I believe you need to know to successfully design your lifestyle around more satisfying work. I can’t tell you how many entrepreneurs build a business seeking more freedom, but end up completely miserable because they built a business out of alignment with their work needs. The more you learn about yourself, the better equipped you’ll be to design a lifestyle truly unique to your values, needs, abilities and motivations.Įspecially if you are considering working for yourself, you need to get to know yourself first. I believe lifestyle design is about accepting who you are and aligning your needs with your purpose, not copying some online guru or lifestyle design “expert.” But to me, this seems completely backward. Most people attempt lifestyle design by modeling themselves after someone else. It’s the most important subject you never learned. To understand how you want to work, you first need to learn about yourself. Regardless of your motivation, I believe the process of transforming your life begins by making your work, work for you. You might be motivated to get out of debt, become financially independent, gain more control over your life, spend more time with family, travel more, focus more on your passion or reduce your stress (like me). There are endless reasons why people want to transform their lives.
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Ready to start learning about yourself right now? Download a checklist of everything you need to learn about yourself.īut how do you even get started with something as broad as “learning about yourself”? As big a topic as it is, getting started with it doesn’t have to be hard. You’ll never confidently answer that question until you make the time to start systematically learning about yourself. You aren’t being honest with yourself because you didn’t give yourself permission to be your true self. When you give someone an answer you think they want to hear, you might satisfy your feelings for social acceptance, but you still end up disappointing someone: yourself. I believe that question causes us so much agony because as a social species we don’t like disappointing other people. It’s a very simple question, but yet it’s tough for many of us to answer. It’s also tough to respond to that question even when you really do know what you want to do with your life but aren’t doing it yet because you don’t know how to make it happen. I can’t tell you how many times I flubbed through that question.
One of the hardest questions in life to answer is “What do you want to do?”Įspecially when you have no idea what you want to do or you are going through a transition.
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