The Existential Problem
If you are in college or about to graduate from college you have this nagging feeling in the pit of your stomach If you haven't "figured your shit out".
The question you find you find yourself asking or other people asking you, "What the hell am I going to do with the rest of my life?"
Besides hurling textbooks FULL-SPEED at the person who asked you that question, you do have to personally answer that question.
What makes it worse is that if you are HIGHLY-DRIVE OR SUPER-MOTIVATED (which I am assuming you are because you are here) this becomes EXTREMELY FRUSTRATING!
It makes you simply want to throw STUFF and flip LUNCHTABLES... (I don't recommend that).
So....WHAT DO YOU DO TO ANSWER THIS QUESTION??
Here is the answer that I sent my friend Matt
ENTER MATT
Me: "I've been thinking deeply about your criticisms. The answer I came to is from what it seems you clearly have the drive and the abilities to achieve that which you want to achieve. However, it seems as if you don't personally know that one thing that you're good at or the one thing that is your mission in life.
Matt: You read me like a book.
Matt: Let's further this. You detailed my life and problem very well, but it is all-encompassing and vague. Let's further this discussion because there are gaps I need to fill."
FILLING THE GAP via...LETTER
Matt,
Hope you are having a fantastic time abroad.
I was honored when you said that I read you like a "book"
The only reason why I could do that is because I have personally endured that turmoil of answering the question "What am I going to do with my life?"
And searching deeply for the answer externally and within.
Here is my path I took hopefully, these steps help you the way to helped me.
1. Find a model. When I saw the mission statement for Singularity University I said to myself "I can do that." It lead me to create my own personal mission statement of changing 10 Billion Lives within 60 years. Although it may seem a little bombastic and fairly ambitious it does push you every day to think, to achieve, and to focus on an impact.
Thus, find a person, a corporation, an artist, a nun whose art you wish to emulate.
2. Try imagery and meditation. When I went to a Jack Canfield's leadership seminar we did a really cool meditation to find your life's purpose. Highly recommend you sit, and meditate. Go for a walk or a bike ride, talk out loud and ask yourself the question, "What are the things that I want out of my life?" Have a notebook or a voice recorder handy. It's amazing to see the answer your body gives you.
3. Check out Jay Niblick's work. Dude, his book "What's Your Genius?" fundamentally changed my life. I'll save you the read, here is a podcast I did with him, and here is the transcript below.
Also, this one simple diagram that showed me how Genius level performance occurs.
These three simple steps will spark you on the path to making that key change and answer the question, "What do you want to do with your life?"
Looking forward to speaking tomorrow!
Moose
P.S. Email me for the podcast transcript.
WRAPPING IT ALL UP
The simple answer (TSA) is: There is no simple answer to this question.
Sorry (not sorry!)
Even though there is no right answer, there are people who have figured it out.
I think there are only paths that are effective and ineffective.
Look at the people in your life that are living effectively and start picking apart the mechanics for how they did it.
I shared my mechanics of how I did it with.
Hopefully, it will help Matt.
But I'm very excited to hear about the MECHANICS you apply to YOUR LIFE.
If you are in college or about to graduate from college you have this nagging feeling in the pit of your stomach If you haven't "figured your shit out".
The question you find you find yourself asking or other people asking you, "What the hell am I going to do with the rest of my life?"
Besides hurling textbooks FULL-SPEED at the person who asked you that question, you do have to personally answer that question.
What makes it worse is that if you are HIGHLY-DRIVE OR SUPER-MOTIVATED (which I am assuming you are because you are here) this becomes EXTREMELY FRUSTRATING!
It makes you simply want to throw STUFF and flip LUNCHTABLES... (I don't recommend that).
So....WHAT DO YOU DO TO ANSWER THIS QUESTION??
Here is the answer that I sent my friend Matt
ENTER MATT
Me: "I've been thinking deeply about your criticisms. The answer I came to is from what it seems you clearly have the drive and the abilities to achieve that which you want to achieve. However, it seems as if you don't personally know that one thing that you're good at or the one thing that is your mission in life.
Matt: You read me like a book.
Matt: Let's further this. You detailed my life and problem very well, but it is all-encompassing and vague. Let's further this discussion because there are gaps I need to fill."
FILLING THE GAP via...LETTER
Matt,
Hope you are having a fantastic time abroad.
I was honored when you said that I read you like a "book"
The only reason why I could do that is because I have personally endured that turmoil of answering the question "What am I going to do with my life?"
And searching deeply for the answer externally and within.
Here is my path I took hopefully, these steps help you the way to helped me.
1. Find a model. When I saw the mission statement for Singularity University I said to myself "I can do that." It lead me to create my own personal mission statement of changing 10 Billion Lives within 60 years. Although it may seem a little bombastic and fairly ambitious it does push you every day to think, to achieve, and to focus on an impact.
Thus, find a person, a corporation, an artist, a nun whose art you wish to emulate.
2. Try imagery and meditation. When I went to a Jack Canfield's leadership seminar we did a really cool meditation to find your life's purpose. Highly recommend you sit, and meditate. Go for a walk or a bike ride, talk out loud and ask yourself the question, "What are the things that I want out of my life?" Have a notebook or a voice recorder handy. It's amazing to see the answer your body gives you.
3. Check out Jay Niblick's work. Dude, his book "What's Your Genius?" fundamentally changed my life. I'll save you the read, here is a podcast I did with him, and here is the transcript below.
Also, this one simple diagram that showed me how Genius level performance occurs.
These three simple steps will spark you on the path to making that key change and answer the question, "What do you want to do with your life?"
Looking forward to speaking tomorrow!
Moose
P.S. Email me for the podcast transcript.
WRAPPING IT ALL UP
The simple answer (TSA) is: There is no simple answer to this question.
Sorry (not sorry!)
Even though there is no right answer, there are people who have figured it out.
I think there are only paths that are effective and ineffective.
Look at the people in your life that are living effectively and start picking apart the mechanics for how they did it.
I shared my mechanics of how I did it with.
Hopefully, it will help Matt.
But I'm very excited to hear about the MECHANICS you apply to YOUR LIFE.