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Define your life's purpose to make better decisions
- Your mission: ABC Brain Dump will give you 26 different words - look for recurring patterns/themes and write down your easily memorable and short mission statement.
- Your vision: “Where do you want to be in the future?” Use a vision board and imagine your best possible future. Turn it into a short, memorable vision statement.
- Your core values: Write down no more than 6 words that you would like others to use when describing you in your absence.
Put these 3 together and you will have a better idea of your life's purpose and a guide for making better decisions.
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CLEAR
C - Connected to your purpose?
L - Linked to a goal?
E - Essential?
A - Advantageous?
R - Reality-based?
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- A: Important and urgent
- B: Important and not urgent
- C: Unimportant and urgent
- D: Unimportant and not urgent
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- Set clear WRITTEN goals with a deadline
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When you’re 20 you care what everyone thinks, when you’re 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks, when you’re 60 you realize no one was ever thinking about you in the first place.
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