Start

Start shows you how you can flip the switch of your life from average to awesome by punching fear in the face, being realistic, living with purpose and going through the five stages of success, one step at a time.

Time for a reality check: You can live to be 100 years old and never find out what you were meant to do. That’s a fact. Now isn’t that depressing?

No!

It’s liberating!

Especially if you’re young. I’m 25 years old. Do you know how much pressure it is for me to feel like I have to have all my life figured out right now? My brain isn’t even fully developed yet, but I’m supposed to know the one, true, only reason I’m alive already?

Nope, not gonna happen. Sadly, for most people the alternative is to sit around, wait, and do nothing. Not having a purpose is a great excuse to not do anything. Some of us get lucky. They know by age 9 that they want to be a chef and align their life with that right then and there.

But even if that’s not you, you can’t spend the rest of your life waiting for something that might never come. So instead of waiting for a purpose, start living with some right now!

Whether it’s your true calling or not, you can give everything you do in life purpose. Go to work on time. Send thank you notes to co-workers. Tell them you appreciate their contribution to your work. Buy flowers for your girlfriend (or boyfriend). Build a fort with the kids. Call grandma.

Be present. Don’t wait around mulling over your lack of purpose in life. Create it yourself. Start living with purpose. Today!

Once you’ve taken back the wheel of the car that is your own life, Jon says it’s time to start learning. If the goal is to lead an awesome life, that indicates doing many awesome things. But to do awesome things, you first have to find what you think is awesome. This is different from a purpose, because it could be many things and you don’t have to do any of them forever. Just like seasons, they come and go. In fact, if there’s any process of finding your purpose at all, trying many things is it. Treat your life like a series of experiments. When something fails, don’t be mad. You’re just collecting data, and you’ve found something that doesn’t work. That’s alright, it means you can now run the next experiment. A good question to kickstart this process is: If you died tomorrow, what would you most regret having never done? Maybe it’s time to go and do just that!…