So Little Time, So Much To Do
I’ve been thinking more about how I want to live my life in recent years. I still love what I’m doing at work. I’m also content with my life. Yet, I always come up with a lot of things that I want to build or achieve.
In the past year, I’ve been able to try out a couple of ideas. One of them is this blog, which I’m completely sure that I will continue for years. The other one is streaming, which I’ve decided I will put on hold, until I can see more value in it.
With all of the ideas that I want to pursue, I wondered if there’s a better way to determine which of them should I prioritise. That’s when I stumbled upon a book called “Designing Your Life.”
Design Thinking
The book shows how design thinking can help us create a happy and meaningful life, whoever, whenever and wherever we are in our journey.
The book has 269 pages and reads in about 4 hours. But, it is better to take your time in doing the exercises or activities. I’m going through it again and thoroughly working on the activities.
There are some worksheets available here.
Start Where You Are
Like everything in life, we need to start somewhere. That somewhere is where we are now.
The book broke down life into four areas: health, work, play and love. Being healthy means being well in mind, body and spirit. Work includes anything we do, paid or not. If we do something out of purely being happy, then it is considered as play. Lastly, love comes to us in a wide range of types. What’s important is that there’s some sense of connection.
You can easily just write down your current state in those four areas. Or you can use the Health/Work/Play/Love dashboard.
With this dashboard, I’m immediately warned by my lack of health. This tells me that all of the other areas will suffer in the near future if I don’t take care of myself.
Assets and Liabilities
It is important to know where we are now. It’s even more significant than knowing where we want to be. It give us an idea of what our assets and liabilities are in life. Allowing us to turn those liabilities into assets.
We now have accounted for our current state. The next thing we need is a compass to point us in the right direction on our journey.