More on Living With Purpose: 5 Simple Strategies to Try

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Make Life Easier

1. Determine Values

• This is the most important step! Be sure to do the values exercise from episode 33
• From my own exercise, here are my values:

  

• By doing this exercise, I learned that hosting this podcast touches on all five of my values!

2. Connect Goals to Values

• In a single document, write out your values and goals
• Then, for each goal, list the values to which it’s connected
• Here, you can see some of my personal aspirations. Underneath each (in italics) are the related values.

  

• Ideally, you’ll have have at least at least one goal for each value

3. Schedule Weekly Review

• It’s important to get this set up, but it’s equally important to review it regularly
• Goals and values shift over time, so it’s only useful if you keep up with it
• The best way I’ve found to do that is to schedule a weekly review. Check out episode 32 for a detailed discussion of this!
• During your review, it’s also a good idea to update your goals with progress

  

4. Time-block Your Day

• It’s also really useful to time-block your days
• This helps ensure that you’re spending time on the things that matter to you

Day planner

If you’d like a simple tool for planning out your day, grab my free day planner!

Click here to get the day planner

5. Schedule Daily Decompression Time

• Finally, aim to spend some time decompressing each day
• I’m going to try to incorporate meditation back into my day by scheduling time at work
• I talked about planning your day back in episode 28

Use Focus Assist / Do Not Disturb

Make Work Easier

Make use of your computer’s Do Not Disturb function to prevent distractions from notifications.

Here’s how for Windows and Mac:

Windows

I know that this works for Windows 10, and maybe for Windows 8

1. In the task bar, click the notification pane button

   

2. Click expand (if it’s not already)

   

3. Click Focus Assist to enable

   

I use Priority Only mode. This shows only notifications I need to see and suppresses the rest!

Mac

Mac supported Do Not Disturb at least back to Yosemite

• On your keyboard, press and hold Option
• While holding the Option key, click the notification icon