WELCOME THE MOST EPIC YEAR OF YOUR LIFE 2017
This is an interactive book designed to help you find you.
Because we often go through the motions of daily life without a clear vision, or real purpose, for why we do what we do.
It’s time we give purpose a chance...
.... and find out what truly matters, what inspires, and fills our heart with joy.
We live in a ‘manic’ society that overstimulates and overwhelms the best parts of ourselves.
So I ask that you pause right now: close your eyes, and take a deep breath.
Let’s identify your heartfelt dreams, your true calling, your values, virtues, and strengths.
... and let’s create the space to make them real.
I am
I want
I want to be
I want to feel
... because
I care about
Don’t be a stranger to yourself. It’s time to find out who you really are.
Ninety percent of the world’s woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties and virtues. Sydney Harris
My gifts:
My strengths:
I have always been good at
As a child I was surprisingly
My virtues:
I am
What I love about my life
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray. Rumi
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. Winston Churchill
What doesn’t work about my life
Imagine the life you always wanted.
The future is not there waiting for us. We create it by the power of the imagination. Pir Vilayat Khan
Draw the vision of your ideal life: What does it look, feel, and smell like?
Like a great athlete, we must have a very clear vision of what we want to accomplish before we make a move. Marianne Williamson
In ten years I see myself
In five years I see myself
What would have to take place this year in order for this to be the most epic year of your life?
The most epic year:
an ideal January:
Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your values. Keep your values positive because your values become yor destiny. Mahatma Gandhi
a favorite February:
Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive. Then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. Harold Whitman
a great March:
The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power and goodness. Martin Seligman
the best April:
A good intention clothes itself with sudden power. When a god wishes to ride, any chip or pebble will bud and shoot out winged feet, and serve him for a horse. Ralph Waldo Emerson
a memorable May:
My life is a creative act- like a painting or a concerto. Ram Dass
a jubilant June:
The best futures get created in the present moment. The worst thing is to be so worried about your future that you miss creating it right now, right here in the present moment, the only place it can ever be created. Steve Chandler
an even more jubilant July:
Working the Visioning process means cultivating the dream, shaping it and reshaping it until it is crystal clear, and staying with it to the end. Lucia Capacchione
a fruitful August:
There is always a gap between intention and action. Paulo Coelho
delicious September:
I never did a day’s work in my life. It was all fun. Thomas Edison
a memorable October:
Show up. Show up. Show up, and after a while, the muse shows up too. Isabel Allende
a notorious November:
Focus on being productive instead of busy. Tim Ferriss
a December to remember:
We have to remember that the goal of life is not to be busy, it is to be successful. We have to be willing to sacrifice busyiness for true success. Often it is only when we let go of our busyness that vision returns, inspiration appears, and a new level of true success is possible. Robert Holden
Before I die...
Preparing for death is one of the most empowering things you can do. Thinking about death clarifies your life. Candy Chang
An ideal day in your life. 6 am
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Everything is energy and that’s all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy. This is physics. Albert Einstein
Commit to yourself.
Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality. Abraham Lincoln
Commit to your vision.
What would it take to make your vision real? ... & what tiny steps can you take this week to make your vision real in the world?
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Face your fears.
Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain. Mark Twain
Take a risk.
What we actually do within twenty-four hours of having a creative idea will spell the difference between success and failure. Buckminster Fuller
Begin that thing you have always wanted to do.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it: boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Wolfgang von Goethe
You already are the person you want to become.
Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we are and become it. Steven Pressfield
Create an image, poem, or collage that describes what success looks like for you.
Make one thing each day.
One day you will wake up and there won’t be any more time to do the things you always wanted. Do it now. Paulo Coelho
Make time for what matters.
Mark it on your calendar, mark it now.
You will never find time for anything, if you want time you must make it. Charles Buxton
Redefine Failure.
I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost more than 300 games. Twenty-six times I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot, and missed. I’ve failed over and over again in my life.. and that’s why I succeed. Michael Jordan
Test it out.
You don’t know what the solution is going to look like.... You create a point of view, then you prototype, you test, and constantly change your point of view. You prototype different versions of the you that you might become. Bill Burnett
This is an Experiment on Purpose project. [ Special design thanks to: Eric Bird. ]
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. Ralph Waldo Emerson.