When translated to English, the Japanese word Ikigai means:
"One's reason for being."
The concept of Ikigai originated from the people living on the island of Okinawa, Japan.
Ikigai can be described as an intersection of 4 vital elements that constitute life:
1.Passion - Doing what you are good at and what you love.
2. Mission -Doing what you love and what the world needs.
3. Vocation -Doing what the world needs and what you can get you paid.
4. Profession- Doing what can get you paid what you are good at.
In simpler words,
✓ To find the reason for your existence.
✓ To find your reason for being.
✓ To find the reason why you wake up every day.
*What is your reason for being*?
According to the Japanese, everyone has an ikigai-what a French philosopher might call a raison d'être. Some people have found their ikigai, while others are still looking, though they carry it within them.
Our ikigai is hidden deep inside each of us, and finding it requires a patient search. According to those born on Okinawa, the island with the most centenarians in the world, our
Ikigai is the reason we get up in the morning.
The 35 keys to living your ikigai
1. If you aim to improve by 10%, consider what you need to do to improve by 100%.
2. Include at least one 'impossibility' in your day-to-day
agenda.
3. Practice patience and perseverance with what you have resolved to do.
4. Devote 21 days to implementing a positive, new habit.
5. Ask people you trust for feedback on what you are doing.
6. Seek out a mentor who can guide you in your passion.
7. Imitate and improve on what you like for your next project.
8. Identify what you don't like in order to discover, through a process of elimination, what you do.
9. Each week develop a virtue you want to strengthen.
10.Share your passion with like-minded people to learn and improve together.
11. Get out of your comfort zone and explore new territories.
12. Prioritize important things ahead of urgent ones.
13. Push aside what is neither essential nor worthwhile in your life.
14. Baptize your project with a name that may spur you into action.
15. Recover your childhood values and dreams.
16. Motivate yourself by recalling your life's "greatest hits."
17. Recognize your "level one" friends and give them the attention they deserve.
18. Join the dots from your past to understand your present.
19. Establish a screen-free and virtual life-free time slot.
20. Make "slow life" a part of your meals and leisure time.
21. Do just one thing at a time, without getting side-tracked.
22. Write something personal for at least 5 minutes each day.
23. Take up the art of haiku to get to know your emotions.
24. Take the crucial decisions you need at this time in your life.
25. "Sleep on" the questions you still have no answer to.
26. Flow by drawing the enso circle.
27.Solve a koan each week.
28. Practice giving your undivided attention to your every- day activities.
29. Let yourself be carried along by the serendipities and other coincidences of your life.
30. Carry out an altruistic act of kindness every day. 31.Hug your loved ones regularly.
32. Occasionally travel without a destination and allow yourself to be surprised.
33. Make kaizen part of the awakening of your ikigai.
34. Always aim the arrow of improvement at yourself.
35. Distance yourself from the sources of negativity.
Stay tuned ✨
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