How To Find Out What To Do In Life

• To be successful at something you need to be really good at it.
• It is important to do something you enjoy doing.
• Commit to being the best in your chosen field.
• It takes time to discover your life purpose.

You may already be familiar with the 80/20 rule, but in case your not, it states that 80% of your results come from 20% of your activities.

In sales this can be found as 80% of the sales coming from 20% of the sales people, or in business, as 80% of the market share belonging to 20% of all the competing companies.

The 80/20 rule shows that in order to be successful, you must be extremely good at what you do. As it is only a small fraction of the total number of competitors, who ultimately get the majority of the rewards.

A Commitment To Excellence

People who reach the top 20% make a conscious effort to do so. They decide they want to be the best, and then commit themselves to achieving excellence in their field.

Whatever it takes to be successful, and whatever price they must pay to achieve it, they will do what they need to do, when they need to do it, whether they like it or not.

This may sound like an obvious thing to do, but ask yourself, have you committed yourself to being the best? Are you willing to do whatever it takes to get what you want? Are you willing to make some big sacrifices?

For most people, the answer is no.

The Importance Of Committing To Be The Very Best

For those who do not consciously commit themselves to becoming excellent in their field, automatically and subconsciously commit themselves to a life of mediocrity in the bottom 80%.

Without a commitment to becoming the best, you will always perform at low levels and never achieve your true potential.

As a result, your self worth and self esteem will likely fall, resulting in feelings of unhappiness, depression and a lack of fulfillment in life. Is that the kind of life you want to live?

How To Get Into The Top 20%

In order to become truly successful at something, you must first enjoy what you do. This means that if you are currently doing something you do not enjoy, it is highly unlikely you will reach the top 20%.

How To Find Your Life Purpose

For many people, finding out what their life purpose is can be one of the most difficult things they ever do.

They may have the drive, passion and desire to get into the top 20%, but because they do not know what they want to be successful at, what their life purpose is, they never get there.

If you are struggling to discover what you life purpose is, start by asking yourself the following question:

• If you won the lottery what job would you do?

This is an extremely important question to ask, as most people decide upon a job with money as their primary concern. However later they may find they do not enjoy their job, and so fail to become truly successful at it.

Money certainly can make a job you do not enjoy bearable, especially if you do not have much money to begin with. However you will often find, as many people do, that money isn’t everything.

Over time the job will become more and more unbearable, and the money will seem less and less attractive. It is at this point when people must decide whether they want to live their life doing something they enjoy, or continue living a miserable, stressful and unfulfilling life doing something they absolutely hate.

So when you are in the process of finding your life purpose, do not make your decision based on money.

Still Struggling To Find Your Life Purpose?

Nobody can tell you what your life purpose is. Finding your life purpose is different for everyone, and something only you can discover for yourself.

So if you are still struggling to find your life purpose, here is an exercise that is designed to ask your subconscious mind for the answer.

Finding Your Life Purpose Exercise

Get a sheet of paper, and on the top write “what is my life purpose?” or “what am I meant to do in my life?”.

Now write down 20 answers to that question. Make sure you write down whatever comes into your mind, no matter how silly it may seem.

Relax whilst you do this, as ideas will flow from the subconscious much easier when you are in a relaxed state of mind.

You will probably find the first few answers come easily, but as you get past 10 answers, it will become harder and harder.

These later answers will often be the most valuable, as they will be coming from your subconscious mind.

An important point to remember when doing this exercise is that in order for it to be effective, it must be done in one sitting. So make sure you set some time aside, so that you can come up with 20 answers to your question.

If you find 20 answers easy to come up with, increase the number to 30. Ideally you should find the last 5-10 answers difficult to come up with, so adjust your total amount accordingly.

After you have completed the exercise do not look at what you have written. Put it away, and then look at it the following day.

Do you see anything that could be your purpose in life? Is there anything that if you knew you would definitely be successful at, you would do it? If not, keep repeating this exercise until you do.

Eventually, because your mind has been thinking about and trying to answer this question for so long, the answer will come to you.

Often it will be when you least expect it, as the mind is most productive when it is relaxed and not stressed with worry.

An additional tip is to think about this question just before you sleep. The answer may come to you in a dream, or the following morning. Persistence is the key!

Be Successful At Something You Love To Do!

When selecting a job with enjoyment as your primary concern, you may not start out with lots of money. But because it is something you enjoy, eventually you will become very successful at it.

As we have already seen, people who are successful in their field get 80% of the rewards. However please do not confuse the meaning of success with earning lots of money.

For some people that may be the definition of success, for others, it may mean something entirely different. It is therefore up to you to decide upon what you most enjoy doing in life, and how you define the success that will come from it.

Study, Study, Study!

When I was younger I used to think that the only time I needed to learn something was at school, boy was I wrong! I now realise that life is all about learning, without it you cannot grow.

In order to reach the top of your chosen field, you must therefore commit yourself to learning as much as you possibly can about it. And that means reading!

Since most people do not read, by spending at least 1 hour every day reading about your subject, you will quickly rise to the top. If you don’t like reading you can always watch TV instead, as long as you don’t mind being in the bottom 80%!

Review Your Actions

It is good practice to get into a daily or weekly habit of reviewing your actions. By reviewing the things you did right, and the things you would do differently, you slowly begin to programme it into your subconscious mind.

As a result, the next time you are faced with a similar challenge, you will automatically respond in the best and most appropriate way.

However a word of warning, do not focus solely on the mistakes you made or the things you did wrong. If you do so, you will programme this into the subconscious and repeat the same mistakes!

Final Thoughts

Very few people commit to being the best. Those who do commit themselves to excellence, do so in a field of interest they truly enjoy and are passionate about.

They believe what they are doing is important, and actively work each day to better themselves. Whatever it takes to achieve their objective they will do, whether they feel like it or not.

So once you have decided what you want to become a success at, commit yourself to becoming excellent at it. Keep moving towards your goal and never consider the possibility of failure.

If you can apply this principle to every aspect of your life, you will be a success no matter what you do.

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