"Your work is not about your work. Rather your work is the greatest vehicle for your personal growth. "

"The true reality is that success and failure are illusions. The only thing that matters is how fast you're evolving. Your journey is about removing all the barriers that hold you back from self-actualization."

"Companies should not just ask people to be engaged in the company vision. Companies should be engaged in an employee's vision for their own life."

"Sometimes you have to destroy a part of your life that is merely good, to allow what is truly great to enter."

"Remember this when you wake up every day: Your life is not about you. Rather, it's about the lives of every single person you touch. "

"Little ideas that tickled, and nagged, and refused to go away should never be ignored, for in them lie the seeds of destiny"

"A goal is not meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at."

"Remember: Don't describe what you do today. Describe what you're going to do in ten years. Be humble and admit that there's a chance of failure. But talk boldly of what you aim to do."

<ul><li>End goals are the beautiful, exciting rewards of being human on planet Earth. End goals speak to your soul. They bring you joy in and of themselves, not because they confer any outward label, standard, or value attached by society.</li><li>Means goals are the things that society tells us we need to have in place to get to happiness. Almost everything I wrote down as a goal was actually a means to an end, not an end in itself.</li></ul>

Means Goals Versus End Goals

"Suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning."

"Positive optimism is not the rejection of sadness, but the thought, even during sadness, that the future will be okay."

"Grow so fast that your friends who haven't seen you in a month have to get to know you all over again."

<ul><li>Step 1: Reconnect to peak moments in the past.</li><li>Step 2: Write out the story in detail. </li><li>Step 3: Repeat the process for ages five to twenty-five</li><li>Step 4: Write the values that emerged from those moments.</li><li>Step 5: Define your values.</li></ul>

THE ORIGIN STORY EXERCISE

<ol><li>What experiences do I want to have in this lifetime? </li><li>To be the person who lives life with these amazing experiences, how do I need to grow?</li><li>If I had a life with these amazing experiences and had grown to this level, how do I now give back to the world that has rewarded me so much?</li></ol>

The Three Most Important Questions (3MIQs)

"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete"

"The Soul’s Experience on Earth Is Not Meant for Hard Work and Toil. It’s Meant for Freedom, Ease, and Expansion."

"The question is not: Are you worthy to reach your goals? The question is: Are your goals worthy enough of you?"

Step 1: Reflect on these questions below:<ol><li>What missions in the world already inspire you?</li><li>What causes can you be an activist for? </li><li>What to or fields light you up? </li><li>What types of groups do you want to make a difference for?</li><li>What brands can you support?</li></ol>Step 2: Take action. What actions can you take to align yourself with or create positive missions that forward initiatives in the areas that matter to you? Write them down. Then get in action.

MASSIVE TRANSFORMATIONAL PURPOSE (MTP)

<ol><li>Create a manifesto that summary what you’re seeking to bring to the world, your beliefs and values, and how you operate. Add this to your website if you have one. Remember to share the ?why of what you do.</li><li>Find your big why. Throw out the dispassionate corporatespeak. Talking about your beliefs, your values, your vision for the world will engage people’s emotions, which is how they make decisions.</li><li>Craft a Vivid Vision and make it public. Speak three years into the future. Don't worry if you’re currently small or operating from a warehouse. Talk about the future as if it’s happening now.</li></ol>

MODELS OF REALITY

"The bigger your vision, the easier it gets. When you live this way, you may find that the vision is not coming from you. Instead, the Universe is choosing to go through you to realize what the world needs."

"The New York Times bestselling author of The Code of the Extraordinary Mind challenges everything you thought you knew about work, showing how aligning with your core values and fostering personal growth will lead to unimaginable success with a sense of ease"--

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NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, AND #1 WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER • Forget hustling. This book, from the author of The Code of the Extraordinary Mind, will disrupt your deeply held beliefs about work, success, and, indeed, life. If you’re the average person in the developed world, you spend 70 percent of your waking hours at work. And if you’re the average person, you’re miserable for most of those hours. This is simply not an acceptable state of affairs for your one shot at life. No matter your station, you possess incredible unique powers. It’s a modern myth that hard work and hustle are the paths to success. Inside you is a soul. And once you unleash it fully into the domain of work, magic happens. Awakening the Buddha and the Badass inside you is a process that will disrupt the way you work altogether. You’ll gain access to tools that bend the very rules of reality. • The Buddha is the archetype of the spiritual master. The person who can live in this world but also move with an ease, grace, and flow that comes from inner awareness and alignment. • The Badass is the archetype of the changemaker. This is the person who is out there creating change, building, coding, writing, inventing, leading. The badass represents the benevolent disruptor—the person challenging the norms so we can be better as a species. Once you integrate the skill sets of both archetypes, you will experience life at a different level from most people. You will operate from a space of bliss, ease, inspiration, and abundance. The Buddha and the Badass: The Secret Spiritual Art of Succeeding at Work will show you how. Author of the New York Times bestseller The Code of the Extraordinary Mind and founder of Mindvalley, Vishen Lakhiani has turned his own life and company into his research lab. He’s codified everything he’s learned into the how-to steps in this book. The Buddha and the Badass teaches you how to master your work and your life.

Vishen Lakhiani is an accomplished writer whose work has resonated with readers around the world. Vishen Lakhiani has published several books that explore a range of topics, from fiction to nonfiction, and has received critical acclaim for the ability to weave compelling narratives. Vishen Lakhiani's writing style is known for its depth and authenticity, and has earned quite a loyal following of readers.