Going for a walk outside each day also fuels my energy.Meditation helps put on the breaks of my frantic thoughts as I wake up each day.Exercise helps me burn off anxious energy.I need to chill out after 8pm at night.I’m not as energetic or as focused without my proper rest. There’s no cutting corners with my sleep. I need at least 8 hours of sleep every night, sometimes as much as 10 hours (especially during the winter).I will work at home, in my co-working space and even enjoy working in the lobby of the Boston Hostel just to be around the energy of fellow travelers. I’m a highly focused worker, but do everything possible to reduce potential distractions. I do value doses of collaboration throughout the week to challenge my thinking and perspectives. I’m a highly motivated worker, so I generally prefer working on my own. We spend our evenings relaxing by watching TV or reading. When we get back I start dinner or help my wife. After lunch I focus on less intensive work tasks like answering email, paying bills, website maintenance, etc.Īfter that I go to the gym and then take my dog for an hour-long walk. I get my best work done between 7am and 12pm. I start my day with a half hour of stretching and meditation. My “peak performance period” is in the morning and I need time to restore to increase my personal productivity. My natural motivations included supporting my family, meeting new people, having new experiences, travel, being outside and learning something new.Īny combination of these motivations will get me to take action and sustain my momentum. My core motivation is to help people design their lifestyle around more meaningful work. challenge the status quo and “make it happen”.choose time and experiences over money and material possessions.I want to give people permission to themselves to create that untold story by designing their lifestyle around the work they’ve always wanted to do. I believe everyone has a great untold story inside of them that deserves to be told. I want to help people find more meaningful work. It grounds me in my values when I have a very important decision to make and keeps me focused on my core beliefs. Understanding my purpose gives both direction and meaning to my life. I like to think of the purpose of my life as a combination of my values, motivations and why I’ve chosen to the work I have chosen to do. Here’s what I’ve learned from my personal self-assessment. I’ve conducted loads of different lifestyle experiments since I was laid off 16 years ago. The most effective way for learning about yourself is through self-experimentation and self-assessment. It has made me more energetic and much less anxious. The more I’ve learned about myself, the more I’ve been able to enhance my personal productivity and to be able to do everything I wanted to do in life. After all, I have no one else to answer to but myself. Self-employment has forced me to learn a lot about myself. The more you know about yourself, the more confidence you’ll have in your decisions. Self-knowledge will enable you to use your energy more efficiently by aligning your habits with your purpose. The more you know about yourself, the better decisions you’ll make about the lifestyle you’ve always wanted to live. Learning about yourself takes a lot of time, but it’s well worth the investment. It seems very inefficient, but then again no one has ever been you before in human history. ![]() We learn about ourselves purely through trial and error. We are never given a process, method, framework or strategy for learning about ourselves. ![]() Here is a full self-assessment inventory of everything I believe we need to know about ourselves to live and work on our terms. The most important subject none of us have ever been taught is how to learn about ourselves. What do you think you should know about yourself?
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