Top 7 Things to Quit On Purpose in 2022
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What gets you up in the morning?
“There are two great days in a person’s life;
the day you were born and the day that you discover why.”
– William Barclay
What gets you up in the morning?
Is it the dreaded beeping of your alarm clock? Is it the kids screaming running into your room and jumping on your bed? Is it the guy next door mowing his lawn obnoxiously early? What is it that really gets you out of bed?
Let me ask that a different way.
How do you get up?
Are you dragging yourself out of your warm cozy bed? Are you asking yourself if it’s really true that it’s morning already? Are you cranky and don’t want to talk to anyone before you have had your first cup of coffee? Are you waking up just because you have to get the kids to school? Are you waking up and dreading the day because you are going to a job you hate and are unsatisfied with?
What is it that really gets you going? For so many people they don’t wake up because they want to, they wake up because they have to.
So waking up because you have to, because you feel like you have to get up, go to work, get that paycheck, pay the mortgage, all this other stuff. Where is the sense of you, your true who, what wakes you up in the morning? The familiar phrase, “here we go again, another Monday morning.”
Interesting fact, did you know that statistically, heart attack rates increase by 21% Monday mornings? People are literally dying to go to work!
It actually starts Sunday evening, after the football game you start building that stress and anxiety about going to work tomorrow morning.
Another alarming statistic is that 85% of the American public hates the job they are going to. Whether it’s not fulfilling, it’s not challenging you, it’s not in your best interest, it’s not really what you want to do. So why do it?
Going to a job you hate just sucks your energy away, it lowers your self-esteem, it raises your stress levels but we keep doing it. It robs you of your time. Realize we spend most of our time at our jobs. Why do we do it if we can’t stand being there? We’ve only got so many hours in any particular day, that’s the only thing that’s equal to all mankind.
Are you working on your purpose and passion or are you working on somebody else’s?
“Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.”
– Farrah Gray
You work your 9:00 to 5:00 and then you work your 5:00 to 9:00 where you can express what it is that truly is coming out of you. I understand everybody has different obligations – kids, challenges, bills to pay, a mortgage but when you take your purpose or your passion, your purpose is really your reason why, your passion comes out in what it is that you do and how you express that purpose.
If you could just take that your purpose and your passion, package it, promote it, and profit from it, that’s where most people find the biggest discoveries. That’s where those that are the richest have gone. Think about Bill Gates, his whole reason was about putting a computer in every home that was running Windows. Steve Jobs, innovation.
What is it that’s getting you out of bed in the morning? Time just happens to slip on by when you are not waking up on purpose, a day goes by, a week goes by, years go by. And in order to see that look back on your life, think back a year.
And it’s easy to say that at the end of the year and especially around resolution time when everybody makes these new resolutions about how they are going to pay down their credit card debt, they are going to go on a diet and lose some weight, they are going to finally look for another job that’s more fulfilling.
How many years have you made the same resolutions over and over again? It happens to all of us, it does. How many people have made the same resolution more than twice? A good portion. What is it that stops you from going forward on that? How do we keep going, how do we build up enough reasons why to keep going on that resolution?
Maybe that resolution doesn’t fit within your value system or what it is you really want to do.
The day that you discover your “why” is a life-changing event and it’s really why are we all here, what are we doing, what did you come to this world for, what did you bring and how are you expressing that, how are you getting it out there? That’s really where Wake Up On Purpose came from is really every day we get to wake up, we get to choose what we do and how we do it.
Write Your Goals Daily
It’s too easy to get distracted now days, we live in an ADD world where something or someone is always demanding our attention.
It’s too easy to lose focus on your goals and forget them for a little while, next thing you know a week passes by a month a year and you never looked at your goals or made sure you were on a path to achieving it.
Energy is the only thing that you have, and it is the thing that connects us all and to everything we do. If your energy is spent elsewhere you won’t reach your goal.
Have you ever noticed that when an idea is new it lights you up and you get excited by it? And the longer you have the idea but never do anything with it, it seems to lose steam, it slowly burns out and isn’t as exciting anymore.
Once you have the dream, the goal, the spark, and small flame you need to feed the fire and keep fueling it.
What idea, what dream, what goal have you had for quite some time and just never seem to accomplish it. Think about that for a second, is there a book you have wanted to write, a business you wanted to start, a job you wanted to quit, a language you wanted to learn, maybe it’s losing weight or just becoming the best version of you?
Its starts with the desire and grows into a goal. Most people do this around new years or big birthdays when they are reminded to look at the clock and calendar.
The big challenge is that we typically over-estimate what we can do in a week or a month and severely underestimate what we can do in a few weeks or a few months of concentrated work.
Imagine that goal that you really wanted if you really stayed committed to working on it every day. Just doing one little thing that moved you a tiny bit closer every day simply because you rewrote that goal every day, feed it energy and kept the idea / dream / goal burning bright every day.
What would it look like when you actually reached your goal? How amazing would you feel? Close your eyes and imagine that for a minute, you finally reached that goal that you may have been striving for the past month, or year, or 5 years.
Now imagine that your goal became a reality simply because you stayed focused on your goal by writing it every day. Wouldn’t it be worth a try?
Try it out, every morning before you get into the “Morning Race” the race to get to the kids ready for school, and you get to work, take just a minute or two to write your goals out.
Start taking refocusing on you by building a morning routine that sets you up for success.
Start by writing your goals every day.
The Momentum of the Morning
Have you ever experienced a morning that just didn’t start quite the way you thought it would?
You hit the snooze button, you think you are getting extra time in bed then you started the day off on the wrong foot, maybe you stub your toe and it set up the rest of the day to just suck. The morning sets the tone for the rest of the day!
Maybe you spilled coffee all over yourself right before you’re walking out the door or you left the coffee mug on top of the car and backed out of the driveway and fell off and spilled all over the place. How many rough mornings like these have you experienced:
- The alarm was set for PM not AM and you were late
- Stubbed your toe walking around the bed
- Hit the snooze button more than three times
- Coffee didn’t brew at the right time
- Got a speeding ticket on the way to work
- Kids missed the bus
- Kids forgot their lunch
Yeah, I think we’ve all had those days.
You see we’ve even had those weeks where Sunday or Monday kicked it off on the wrong foot maybe you got a ticket driving to work where you missed one of your kid’s practices and it set the tone for the week and you just had a rough week. You get to the end of the week and you are just fried saying, “Holy crap this week kicked my ass!”
Yeah…I’ve had a couple of those.
Hell, I’ve had months like that!
It was just a rough month that everything seems to just stack up and everything seemed to be against me. I’ve even heard people talk about a rough year and they can’t wait for this one to be over. They wish the year was over… they look back on all the experiences, all the negative things that are stacking up and wish away six or seven months. They feel that there was nothing they could do about it, bad things just kept on happening.
We all get to choose what it is we focus on, but when we have mornings that start off on the wrong foot and we stay focused that, our thoughts continue to swirl around how mad or frustrated we are. Sometimes we even take it as a sign, a sign of how things are going to go for the day.
Now we are projecting that forward and as we focus on it, more and more our thoughts swirl around it, and our feelings of aggravation, frustration, and stress continue to build. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, that’s what we see more and more of when we do that throughout a day.
Hoping that the next day is going to get better but we’re still focused on what frustrated us the day before. The more we think about it, the more upset we get, the more we focus on it, and as the saying goes, where the focus goes energy flows.
We can build a day that we never wanted and that day turns into a week, those weeks to turn into months and finally, months turn into years. This is how people end up having a rough life.
This all started because of how we woke up
and stubbed our toe?!?!?!?
This is your start your morning in … “The F.A.S.T. Lane”
Frustrated – Anxious – Stressed – Tired