Exercises to help you find yourself in life

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Do you know how to understand if you are going your own way? Pretty simple. If you get up every morning filled with energy and creative ideas, you are on your way. If you hate the ringing of the alarm clock and get up in a bad mood, it's time to change jobs. Here are some exercises to help you figure out what you really need to do.

Exercise 1: Bring back children's interest

Do you know how a genius differs from an ordinary person? The genius defends his right to do what he loves. This usually occurs at a very early age.

Ask yourself what you loved to do as a child. Even before your parents began to cram you into attitudes that "drawing for bread does not make money" or "dancing is not serious." Write down three things that really fascinated you as a child. This is a little hint where you should aim.

Exercise 2. Looking for Patterns: 20 Favorite Activities

Now let's make a list of 20 of your favorite activities. Let some of them seem trivial to you (for example, there is delicious food) - write anyway. When the list is ready, take a close look at these activities. Do you see the patterns? Maybe your list is dominated by things related to helping people? Or some kind of sports activities? Or affairs related to quiet monotonous work?

Understand which groups you can split this list into. He will help you understand the kind of life you would like to live.

Exercise 3. Your ideal environment

If no one believes in you, then it becomes even more difficult to believe in yourself. This is why the environment that breeds winners almost always consists of winners. Unfortunately, the environment in which we are used to growing up is not conducive to the creation of geniuses.

Imagine that the world has changed overnight to suit your needs. And in the morning it will be filled with the people you want. What will these people be like? What qualities do they have? Maybe they are all creative, or, on the contrary, are they people who passed the strength test with a plus? Maybe they do everything quickly, or, on the contrary, you would like to slow down the world?

What have you learned about yourself and what do you need to fully express yourself?

Exercise 4. Five Lives

Now imagine: you will have five lives. And in each of them you can become who you want. How will you live these five lives?

This exercise, like everyone else, can be tailored to suit you. If you can do it in three lives, take three. You need ten - do not deny yourself anything. I chose five just because I like that number.

So, imagine that you will devote one life to biology, the second to professional travel, the third to having a large family with a bunch of children, in the fourth to become a sculptor, and in the fifth to an astronaut. Which one do you like more?

The most important thing to understand here is this: if you only have to choose one life, even the one that you like best, you will still miss the rest. Because they are an integral part of you. They hammered into our heads: "Define!" This is sad.

There are people in the world who were born for a single purpose, but this is a rare exception. Each of your lives contains something that you love and need very much. And you can bring this into your life.

Exercise 5. My perfect day

Now we have a long walk through your imagination. Take a pen and a piece of paper, and drove. So how do you see your ideal day?

Live this day in the present tense and in all the details: where do you wake up, what kind of house is it, who is lying next to you, what do you eat for breakfast, what clothes do you wear, what do you do, what kind of work do you do, at home or in the office?

Don't limit your imagination. Describe the day that you would live if you had absolute freedom, unlimited means and all the strengths and skills that you only dreamed of.

Once the list is complete, divide all your fantasies into three groups:

1. Which of these do you need as air.
2. Which is optional, but still very much like to have.
3. What you can do without.

Our life consists of life experiences, stories, roles, relationships, earnings, skills. We choose something from this ourselves. Some of what we call our choice is actually a compromise. Something in general an accident. Some of this is necessary and very expensive. But all this is not you.

Focus on yourself. Find what you love. And start moving towards your destination.

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