One Simple Question That Will Help You Find Your Purpose!
Ask Yourself: Would You Still Do Whatever You Do, If Today Is Your Last Day?
Steve Jobs in one of the convocation ceremonies at Stanford University gave a very profound message.
He emphasized on the realization that each of us has to die one day and therefore that requires us to decide how we should live each day of our life. He refers to a wonderful quote that changed the way he started to look at his life. he said:
“If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.”
He shared his personal experience that every morning from last more than 33 years, he looked at himself in the mirror and had been asking a simple yet a profound question.
He would ask himself if that day was the last day of his life, would he be doing the things he had planned to do that day. And if the answer to that question came in negative for few days in a row, it meant that things have to change.
This is what Jobs stated in his speech at Stanford University:
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
On the similar lines, Simon Sinek in his book Start With Why advocates that if you don’t get a profound yes for doing anything particular, you should not spend time on that thing.
Billionaire Warren Buffet puts the significance of finding your purpose and doing what you want in bit different way. He says:
“There comes a time when you ought to start doing what you want. Take a job that you love. You will jump out of bed in the morning. I think you are out of your mind if you keep taking jobs that you don’t like because you think it will look good on your resume. Isn’t that a little like saving up sex for your old age?”
This formula is based on the principle of listening to your heart. Science also confirms that your heart is a way more intelligent organ than your brain.
We often suppress the voice of our heart by paying much more attention to the logical thoughts running in our minds. While we might think we are making intelligent decisions and safeguarding our position, there’s a big chance avoiding or not paying attention to the voice of your heart leads to a pretty mediocre life.
You can Discover Your Why by simply asking the right questions like above and then let your heart present you the answers, which will best serve you.
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