When most people think about innovation, they think it is something only for businesses. In reality, it is much more universal and is just as important in life. Innovating in life is about three things: knowing who you are, knowing what you want, and using that knowledge to live life to the fullest. With that, you can control your successes in all areas of your life.
Consider this:
I was dating this girl “Giselle” a while ago. When we were dating, I would have honestly told you that I could have married Giselle. I felt something with her that I never had with anyone else. Now, I can honestly tell you that I could never marry her.
Was I just lying before? No, I honestly thought I could marry her.
So what changed? She didn’t. I did.
I learned more about myself. By doing so, I also learned about her and what I wanted and needed out of a relationship. And I was not getting it. I was almost ready to make one of the biggest decisions you can make in life and it was the wrong decision. I was only able to make that better decision for myself because I learned about myself.
Similarly, people tend to think they know the best for themselves in their lives without knowing themselves. The truth is you can’t. You can rationalize your decisions by saying how right they feel or how much logical sense they make, but you simply just can’t know without knowing yourself.
Innovating in life and living life to the fullest is important for all of us and mandatory for living a life worth living. Otherwise, what are you doing with your life?
You never learn from school or society how you are supposed to live life. You are never really taught how to lead your own life, but rather, how to fit in and follow the herd. You do well in high school to go to a good college. You go to a good college to get a good job. And then you spend the rest of your life climbing up a corporate ladder you are statistically never going to top. This is the rat race of life.
If you think you are happy, but what I’m talking about is new to you, then you are wrong. If you think your life is okay the way it is, you are wrong. If you think your life can’t get much better, you are wrong. If you think you can’t control your life, you are wrong.
The truth is all these ideas are lies we have all been lead to believe, but in reality are very harmful. They get us to settle for less than what we can achieve and deserve. The worst thing you can do in life is to settle because when it’s all over, you would have never lived the life you could have. Wouldn’t that be a waste?
I challenge you to leave the rat race of life and forge your own path. Innovating in life is about becoming more aware about how you live your life and making sure that everyday you are one step closer to living a good life.
What is the good life? Is it a life where you have a lot of money? No. Some of the richest people in the world are the most miserable people.
The good life is the life you want to have. Not the life you have to have because you have to pay off some debt or because you are stuck in a relationship, but the life you, with no obligations whatsoever, want to have. It is a life where you can enjoy your passions and the things you love to do while following your dreams. By taking control of your success, you live your life to the fullest the way you want.
This isn’t some lofty goal that will takes years to achieve. Your life can change and it can start today.
If you want to be happier, you need to understand who you are as a person, what is important to you and make sure you are getting some of that everyday.
If you want to find a career or get a better job, you need to understand how you can align what you’re good at, what you love to do, and what pays well so that you can provide for you and your family without worrying about money or having a job that robs you of your will to live.
If you want to get fit, you need to understand what you’re doing wrong that is holding you back and how to develop good habits to ensure and maintain your success.
If you want to find that great boy/girlfriend, you need to know yourself enough to know what you need in a partner and how to not settle for less. That crush is rarely as good as they first seemed.
If you want to be better at something, you need to understand what it takes to become better and have an effective plan to achieve that.
And we’re going to figure out how to do all that and more.
