How to find your purpose and finally beat procrastination

This newsletter is your gateway to the life you want. If there’s any newsletter you must read, it’s this one.

It’s a long one, but please read it, because it has the potential to change your life completely.

You are assigned a purpose at your birth.

You were born completely unique. DNA that comprises of who you are, has never existed in the millions of years of evolution and that will never exist in the future.

Your parents decide what you should do in the future, what you should want and what you shouldn’t want.

But now most people have been assigned another purpose by the social media influencers like Andrew Tate or Iman Gadzhi, and that’s to earn $50k/mo or even $100k/mo.

Most people are in hurry to get multi-millionaires before the age of 30 because some guy on the internet said that it’s a must and a sign of respect.

Your enemies are the people telling you what you should be interested in.

Don’t get me wrong, money is crucial in today’s capitalistic world, but the majority of people have made making money their purpose.

Naval Ravikant has pinned a tweet on his twitter profile about getting rich, ending with the following statement, “When you're finally wealthy, you'll realize that it wasn't what you were seeking in the first place. But that's for another day,”

But what you don’t realize is that you can never find enjoyment in the work that someone else assigned you.

And when you finally find something that you want to do, but lack a sense of clarity, you start procrastinating.

Why you procrastinate?

Procrastination happens for two reasons:

• You don’t have a purpose

• Your goal isn’t purposeful enough

Your purpose drives you.

Successful people are obsessed with mental clarity. They want to have a sense of purpose.

A lack of purpose creates clutter in the mind.

Most people don’t want to face their fears, especially the fear of failure. They continue to live in their comfort zones.

You have to understand that comfort zone is a danger zone. Dreams die there.

People wait and wait and wait, till they know exactly what it is that they want to do.

Perfectionism is the enemy of achievement.

1. Purpose

If you don’t find your purpose, you’ll be assigned one.

Allah ( the God ) has already set our purpose. We don’t find true happiness and fulfillment in anything else.

The chemistry inside us can never be changed by our parents or the society.

What you truly want, you’ll get, if you work for it.

Purpose-driven productivity is what makes the successful people, successful.

If you want fulfillment, enjoyment and a sense of purpose, you have to make your passion your purpose.

Not every passion will make you money, bring you fame and respect, but it will give you a true sense of purpose and happiness.

Nothing is more pleasant than knowing what is your purpose, what you have to do now and actually doing it.

Make a list of your passions and interests. Cut off everything except one.

Make that One Thing your purpose.

The only way to find your purpose

Most people sit in their room waiting for their purpose to come to them. They want to work on their passion, but they don’t know what it is yet.

What most people don’t realize is that, you don’t find passion, passion finds you.

It’s a journey you have to take, a long one.

The only way to attract your passion is to experiment when you’re young. It helps a lot if you start early in life, but it’s never too late.

Robert Greene, the author of Mastery & The 48 Laws of Power, found his passion at the age of 37, which is not very young but not late at all.

Try different things in the areas that appeal to you. And slowly develop all the necessary skills that you can combine into your business or a project in the future.

You’ll never regret trying, but you might regret not trying.

Either you find out it’s not what you want to do and learn your lesson, or it turns out to be the best thing that ever happened to you.

Experiment with everything that interests you.

Start journaling. Write down your thoughts, ideas and feelings when you are pursuing a specific goal.

After you’ve experimented with different kinds of things, you’ll notice a pattern, and you’ll be able to forge a new path from it.

Time is not wasted in doing the wrong things, but in doing nothing. What you are promised you’ll get.

Do what makes the most sense right now, whether it is learning AI or becoming a Mathematician, just start already.

Make that thing your purpose and pursue it, until you realize that it was not your purpose.

The main problem that holds most people back from taking action on their purpose is, what if they don’t earn a living with it.

We are going to talk about how you can earn a living while doing what you love in the next week’s newsletter.

2. Trust your gut

Sometimes we have, what we call the ‘gut feeling’.

It’s essentially our subconscious mind trying to convince us to do what matches with our inner chemistry.

The thoughts that seem random actually come from the subconscious mind, and that part of the mind is mysterious.

It has the healing power, the power to destroy and the power to create a reality.

Most people give themselves a list of reasons for what they are doing, and why they are doing it, even when they hate doing it.

You see,
thoughts are inspiration,
thinking is desperation.

Thoughts are signals from our subconscious minds and our subconscious minds work according to the God who programmed it.

We receive signals that are unique and mostly go against the societal norms of chasing money, power and fame.

We think out of desperation as this is an evolutionary concept to save ourselves from danger. Our minds try to rationalize a decision, that was forced upon us by the society, so that we fit in.

And that’s the reason that the majority of people don’t trust their gut feeling.

But that’s not how Allah has designed the human machine.

In the book Don’t believe everything you think, the author explains this phenomenon of trusting your intuition.

All we need to do is know the what, and the how will follow.

You don’t have to know how you’ll get to where you want to be, you just have to know where you want to be.

Feed your mind what you want to be. Change the default settings of your subconscious mind to work for you, not against you.

Non-Thinking

Here’s a life-changing advice:

Do what you want to, before you plan the how.

I fell into the trap of overplanning and overthinking every small detail.

But I stopped when I finally realized that these details don’t matter at all.

Once you start and gain a little bit of experience, ideas start flowing on how everything should be.

If you can see the next step, you must take it.

The second step follows the first one, the third follows the second one and so on.

Once you start and make that one thing your purpose, you’ll start receiving mental signals on how to improve.

Do before you know how.

3. Mastery

If you have a clearly defined purpose, you’ll definitely want to become the best at whatever you do.

Being an expert in your field, you’ll able to attract better opportunities your way.

Here’s how to achieve mastery in whatever field you are:

Get Obsessed

Read books only about your field.

Watch youtube videos only related to your field.

Follow people who have already achieved mastery in the field you want to achieve.

Go crazy about just one thing. Focus on it. Laser in on it for years until you become an expert at it.

The 10,000 Hours

The 10,000 hours is a very famous concept, that states that to master anything, you need at least 10,000 hours of practice.

After you complete those 10,000 hours, the skill becomes second nature.

It’s not just 10,000 hours of practice. It’s also 10,000 failures.

But it’s not easy to complete 10,000 hours for a single skill. It takes 4 hours everyday for 10 years to master a specific skill.

You will find days, even weeks, where you get nothing done.

That’s why you should work less and do more with your limited time.

You have to move the right levers every day to move towards your goal.

Most people go with the entrepreneurial approach with their day. They do whatever comes up to them.

And that’s why they focus on tasks like checking emails and replying to DMs instead of getting straight to writing a book.

The internet, the AI tools and science has allowed us to leverage our time for more.

I’ll explain some of the important productivity tips and techniques below.

Goal Setting

Set a someday goal and from that, set a yearly, monthly, weekly and a daily goal.

Set your goals a night before the day.

If you delay it to tomorrow, trust me you’ll just procrastinate.

The best way to set a goal is to ask yourself, “What’s the One Thing I can do today, such that by doing it everything will be easier or unnecessary tomorrow?”

Just set one goal for the day, and laser in on it until it’s done.

The Morning Routine

Your morning is the most important part of the day, and you can leverage it easily.

Do your most important task for the day early in the morning.

Set aside 4 hours in the morning, distraction free.

Your energy decreases as your day goes by. You have the highest energy in the morning and lowest in the evening.

So it’s foolish to do your most important task after your job or school.

Walk

Walking is the best form of exercise.

Humans are designed to walk for longer periods of time, more than any animal.

A long-distance walk allows you to generate ideas, see the world in 4k and refresh your mind in nature.

There is ‘no’ best time to go for a walk, but the recommended time is the morning, to get sunlight in your eyes which sets the circadian rhythm, so you don’t feel lazy, during the day.

I recommend you go for walks multiple times a day, as it can help you generate more creative ideas.

Listen to podcasts, audiobooks to leverage that time to gain new ideas.

How to manage multiple interests

If you are like me, who has thousands of interests and wants to learn everything, it can be a bit difficult to master each and every skill.

The thing is you don’t have to master more than 2 skills and you shouldn’t.

You have to become a specialized-generalist ( about which we will talk in a future newsletter ).

But essentially, the idea is to be 150% in one skill and be 60% in other 3-5 skills.

Devote 4 hours to your most important task, and 1 hour a day to a skill you want to learn in the evening.

But try to do less, and move the big levers to do more with less.

That’s it for today, it was a long one, and i hope it changed your life ( if you read it completely ).

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Allah Hafiz ( May God be with you ).

— Ali Bin Naseer