Why Do You Want To Do Something With Our Lives?

There's something in all of us: the desire to do something with our lives. Unfortunately, most of has have learned to suppress that desire so much that we're not even aware of it anymore. We fill our lives with so many activities that there's just no time anymore to do something meaningful and there are good reasons for doing this.

The first is that we often don't even know what we're supposed to do with our lives. While we have a clear idea as children we often get discouraged because what we desire to pursue doesn't go well with what our parents want for us: security and money. They want us to get a good career that provides us with a steady income. What it is doesn't really matter as long as it puts food on the table.

They're not
This is your mission, the reason why you were born, so give it the priority it deserves.

If you think it's selfish to take time for yourself remember that you're not only doing this for yourself; you're doing it also for other people. If you take care of yourself, you'll also be able to help the people around you by spreading positive energy. The better you feel, the easier it will be for you to be a good person, so taking the time to relax isn't lazy; it's at least as important as replying to emails – probably even more important.

Learning to relax is easiest if you do at the same time every day. You could do it before work when everyone else in the house is still sleeping, you could do it during your lunch break, or you could do it in the evening when you're ready for bed – whatever works for you. You can turn it into a ritual that you perform every day.

It's very important that you don't skip this step because the results of step 2 will be very different depending on how relaxed you are. Learning to relax may take some time for you, but it's going to be worth it.

## 2. Find your
The first step is to make a list of your 25 career goals or things you want to pursue in your working life. Next, you circle the top five items on your list. In step three you commit to never pursuing any of the things on your list that you didn't circle.

That way you'll focus on the things that are truly important to you without getting distracted. Because they other things on your list are also important to you it easy to justify spending time on them instead of on your real goals. After you've checked off your first five goals, you can always get back to the list, but no earlier than that.

If you already have a full-time job, you might have to cut down on your leisure activities. The good news is that you'll probably get 80 percent of your enjoyment out of 20 percent of the things you do. By cutting the things that you don't enjoy very much, you won't lose a lot of enjoyment, but gain a lot of time you can spend on your