ALIGN YOUR LIFE WITH WHAT GIVES YOU PURPOSE + MEANING

Purpose is an element of meaning. When you know your purpose your life has meaning. Purpose answers the questions: Why am I doing what I am doing? Where am I going in my life? What are my goals? If you want to have purpose you need to have goals. If you don’t have goals then you feel aimless. Feeling aimless removes purpose- without purpose, we don’t have meaning. Without meaning we don’t feel happy. Which goals should I adopt? You need the right goals or u go the wrong direction. When setting your goals, it’s ok to disappoint other people if you avoid disappointing yourself. GOALS [right goals for you] → PURPOSE → MEANING → PEACE [happiness]. Set and evolve goals that are the right ones for you.

Never let your head outsmart your gut.  The worst decisions in life are made when you allow your head to talk you into something when your gut already said no.

Everyone wants the summary. But the summary is what's left after someone else decided what matters. Their priorities aren't yours. Their filters aren't yours. When you operate on summaries, you're thinking with someone else's brain.

Do work you love and work that matters.  Solve problems, make art, think deeply.

I used to be afraid of failing at the things that really mattered to me, but now I'm more afraid of succeeding at things that don't matter.

When you truly work for yourself, you won’t have hobbies, you won’t have weekends, and you won’t have vacations, but you won’t have work either. And net-net, I do think this is a one-way door. I think once people experience working on something that they care about with people that they really like in a way they’re self-motivated, they’re unemployable. They can’t go back to a normal job.

SEEK PEACE, NOT HAPPINESS

Happiness is the state where nothing is missing.  The absence of desire.  The removal of the sense that something is missing. Not thinking about the past or future. Nexting. A small % of the brain is focused on the present- the rest is planning the future or regretting the past It keeps you from having incredible experiences.  It destroys happiness.  We are addicted to the idea that something external will bring happiness.  The idea that something external will bring you happiness is delusional.  Do I want to be having this  thought right now or do I want peace, 

Enlightenment is an internal experience.  You can increase your baseline of peace.  Desired trio- health, wealth, time.  Youth- no wealth.  Mid-life- no time.  Older- lose health. I knew I was on the right path when I started feeling peace in situations where I would normally feel tension.

A crowded mind leaves no space for a peaceful heart.”Buying stuff won't buy happiness. Buy experiences, time, save your  money, giving it away.

The Objective of Living Is Not Happiness? It is meaning, purpose, and finding your calling in the world. 

The hardest truth about happiness is that it's a choice.

$ MATTERS. CONSIDER LIFESTYLE YOU SEEK WITH $s EARNED

Seek wealth, not money or status.  Wealth is having assets that earn while you sleep. 

Compensation follows autonomy. When you need to be managed, there's a cap on what you can earn. When you know how to create value and do it without being told, there's no cap. This is structural, not personal. The compensation gap isn't about performance; it's about autonomy.