Do what you love to do

Do what are you good at

Do what the world needs

Do what you can be rewarded for

We have been told that when you get a education, you get a good job, and then you live a good life.
But there is more.

Figuring out your life’s purpose may feel like a daunting task. Where do you start? Is there science
that supports ‘life purpose’? what steps do you take, and how do you know you’re on the right path?
These are all overwhelming questions that keep people from even beginning the Ikigai journey.
Instead, people tend to default to the beliefs that society and institutionalized education have
peddled to us for years because they are what is safe and similar.

Map has four simple directions to follow:

Do what you love to do

Do what you are good at

Do what the world needs

Do what you can be rewarded for

These directions are deceptively simple, but they take work to understand and put into action. The
good news is that the work you put into following these directions will result in immediate rewards.

When something grabbed their interest, they’d dive down as deep as sixty feet to push over rocks
and poke around the coral with sticks.

Ikigai is made of two words: iki translates to life, gai means worth. Ikigai= life’s worth

The key to Ikigai is to do what you are meat to do. You have gifts that are begging to be put to good
use. Understanding Ikigai is a way to put your gifts to work, so you can enjoy their benefits.

Ikigai is a purpose. By exchanging one word, Marc Winn has given the world a great gift: a searchable
infographic that is a simple map to life’s purpose.

Try doing a search for any of these terms on the internet:

Meaning of life

Life’s purpose

Job satisfaction

Career guide

Personal brand/ branding

What makes life worthwhile

Meaningful life

How to find the meaning of life

What’s the meaning of life

Living a meaningful life

Every single one of these search terms will deliver a myriad of ideas, philosophies, and opinions.

Your ikigai will be distinctive to you, as unique to you as the iris of your eye. So how do you find it?
The answer lie in following the four directions.

Many would have you believe that your days are supposed to be dedicated to achieving success. But
success is a measurement of the EGO. It only matters to you. You, and the world, deserve more than
that.

If you’re like most people, you’ve wondered at some point in time, ‘’what is my life’s purpose? It’s a
question that people have been considering for a millennium, but it’s one most people will not
answer in their lifetime. This book is meant to put your life’s purpose within reach.

When it comes to solving a mystery, it’s often said that the simplest answer is the best answer. This
is ikigai. It has just four directions to follow.

If you’re searching for your life’s purpose, consider this: Your soul has an issue that it needs to
resolve. What steps can you take to get the answers you need? My own steps have taken me on
adventures that might seem wild to some people. But the search for life’s meaning starts at a time
when we are fresh and young; when we are full of piss and vinegar. For most people it started on the
first day after high school graduation. But then what happened.

I hold my finger in the air in a professorial manner and state, “Your work is to discover your work
and then with all your heart give yourself to it”. Buddha didn’t really say that…..