Living Your Best Life
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One book that I found really valuable for my personal development was, Living your best Life, by Laura Fortgang. She challenged me to declutter my life, explore my passions, and pursue my lucrative purpose.
Laura provides a checklist to determine the number of distractions that you have in your life. I was surprised to learn that I was leading a life with many distractions. Examples of distractions that I was carrying were consumption of too much coffee, strained relationships from unresolved conflict, and desire to use my natural abilities more in my work. On my own I would not identify these distractions as barriers to living a full life. As I addressed these challenges I felt more empowered in my life.
A real fun part of the book for me was exploring my passions. For this exercise you identify fullfilling accompishments and experiences. She challenges you to identify the kind of activities where you lose track of time and are filled with enthusiasm. This activity leads to the next task of finding your lucrative purpose.
Your lucrative purpose is something that you are passionate about and it benefits others. I struggled determining my lucrative purpose on my own. From my viewpoint I thought my strength was seeing the positive view in every situation. I learned a lot by asking my friends what they valued about me. An overall consensus from friends was that they used me as safe and trustworthy sounding board.
I’ve only touched a few topics in the book. Here are 3 goals that I set after reading this book:
1. Provide practical advice and motivate people to improve their personal finances so that they can follow their dreams and achieve their goals. This book challenged me to purse my passion to write a personal finance book. Subsequently I have started this blog.
2. Work with my wife to help our daughter blossom into her purpose. For example, help expose her to different activities and hobbies and encourage her.
3. Engage in conversations such that I am always building up other people. What can I say to encourage them? What can I do to acknowledge their courage and contributions?
In closing I recommend that you take on the challenge to live your best life! Follow your dreams, Achieve your goals!
Are you living your best life? What are you passionate about? What is your lucrative purpose?
This article was featured in the Carnival of Improving Life
