Motivation week 2

A life handbook contains the essentials on how you can live your life to the fullest. It details your purpose, values and goals.

Journaling your goals helps you identify the steps you can take to achieve those goals.

It is easy to get swept away in day to day life and forget to live according to your values. Surround yourself with motivated individuals and your life will start to become more fulfilling because you will start to act with greater purpose.

This is not meant to be a to-do list. A life handbook is an opportunity to refocus. It gives you the mental space to move forward in whatever you have determined is important to you. Once you have identified those things that are important to you and outlined the goals you have for your life you can begin to realise them.

You will be more easily to live according to your values every day if you document them. Writing them down gives clarity to your goals and reminds you to focus on them.

Your life handbook can be in hard or soft copy. Choose a format the suits you.

Your handbook is yours alone. It is not designed for anyone else to read. It is designed to reaffirm you purpose.

Mine includes a sort of mission statement with the purpose I wish to have for my life clearly documented, my values, my strengths, the areas I need to work on improving and my long term goals. When I come across an inspirational quote that resonates with my goals, I add it to the handbook. I find that doing this reinforces my way of thinking. It deepens my resolve to work toward my goal and provides me with the motivation to just keep swimming. In a world where we are easily distracted by work, family commitments and daily routine, I find that having these fundamentals documented ensures that I don't stray too far from my core values. I use it on bad days to remind me of my strengths. On days where I have time or energy, I use it as a way to focus on the areas I have identified as needing improvement and try to make a conscious effort to rectify or work on those to better myself.

Your life handbook can be anything you want it to be. It is yours, after all!