30 days: Change your habits, Change your life

Questions:
How will your mornings and evenings look from now on?
Will you get up 30 minutes earlier and develop a little ritual?
What will your last activities be before you go to sleep?

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Find your purpose
and do what you love
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful,
to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make
some difference that you have lived and lived well.
—RALPH WALDO EMERSON
The two most important days in your life are the
day you are born and the day you find out why.
—MARK TWAIN
One of the most important things along your life’s journey is the
discovery of your purpose. So what exactly does that mean? It
means doing what you love to do. Your answers to the questions:
“What would you do if success was guaranteed?”
or 
“What
would you do if you had 10 million dollars, seven houses and
have traveled to all of your favorite destinations?”
will lead you
to your purpose. You spend more time at your job than with your
loved ones, so you better enjoy what you are doing! The 2013 Gallup
“The state of the American Workplace report” states that up to 70%
of people are not happy at their work! Almost 50% are not engaged,
not inspired, and just kind of present and around 20% have resigned
internally and are actively disengaged! I was part of the 50% for five
years and it was horrible. The worst thing was that I didn’t even
notice it! We all have great ideas or dreams about what we could be,
have, and do. What happened to your dreams? This is where the
value exercise from Chapter 16 comes into the picture. The ideal
picture is to build your goals around those values and have a job

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which allows you to live according to your values. You don’t have to
rush into something new, but you can start doing more of the things
you love. It sounds like jargon, but when you have found your
purpose, things will start to fall into place. You will start to attract
people, opportunities and resources naturally and incredible things
will start to happen! Nothing attracts success more than somebody
who is doing what they love to do!
My friend Yvonne followed her hunch, dropped out of Law School,
and started selling shoes at a big department store. She loves to
help people and she loves shoes, so for her the choice was obvious.
She went with her gut even though people made fun of her. She was
even called the “female Al Bundy”. Not a great compliment. But she
didn’t care about the jokes and went on to become the number one
Sales Woman in the department store, selling hundreds of
thousands of dollars’ worth of shoes each year, taking home the
Employee of the Year awards one year after another and earning a
decent salary. In fact, she does so well that the VIP clients only want
to be served by her. She enjoys every minute of her work.
If you feel like you are driving without a roadmap or a GPS and
don’t really know where to go or if you never quite know what you
are doing here and why, and you feel kind of lost and empty, then
that’s a sign that you have not found your purpose. But don’t worry,
that can be fixed in no time. You can find clues to your purpose by
examining your values, skills, passions and ambitions, and by taking
a look at what you are good at. Here are some more questions that
should help you. Have the courage to answer them and write them
down. Nobody else but you can see the answers