Toward the end of The Blue Zones book I recently completed, author Dan Buettner put together a list of 9 common traits that serve as guiding life principles based on the traits, characteristics and activities of people over 100 years old living in outlier “blue zone” regions of the world…
Number 5 on the power list was that we must have a grand sense of purpose that drives us to get out of bed in the morning.
In Okinawa, they referred to it as their “Ikigai” while in Costa Rica they call it their “Plan de Vida.”
That got me thinking… What exactly is it that motivates me to get out of the rack each and every single day? 🤔
Buettner suggested we all write down a sentence to serve as our personal mission statement that gives us reason to hard charge life.
As we preach so often here in the Daily Hustle, anything worth doing is worth overdoing, so instead of coming up with 1 reason to pull our heads off the pillow… let’s make it 5:
- I get up in the morning to do my best to help my kids learn and implement key life lessons that have the potential to one day allow them to be efficient and effective in all that they decide to do with their lives…
- I get up in the morning because I know that my movement through the course of the day is what builds the physical fitness and mental capacity to be the very best version of myself…
- I get up in the morning to do my small part to make this world a better place by attempting to positively influence other people through an unwavering commitment to action…
- I get up in the morning because of an overwhelming desire to accumulate knowledge and experiences that ultimately lead to whimsical wisdom worth sharing…
- I get up in the morning because I like coffee, everything about it. The process of chopping the beans, the smell of grinds, the sound of the slow drip, the bitter taste when it first hits the tongue and the anticipation then jubilating experience of the eventual caffeine perk…
Sweet… Your turn. 👍
-EB
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