How to measure your life
One of the most important conversations to have with ourselves in our late teens and twenties is why are we here? What is our purpose? What matters most?
How do we arrange our priorities?
And are we choosing our purpose, priorities and what matters most, rather than reflexively responding to a society that has assigned value and meaning to things that may not align with us?
Yet this conversation is rarely asked. And if it is, if the answer is not easily forthcoming, we get back to what we were doing before we asked it. Too hard. Another time.
The answers are often difficult to evoke. Rigour is required to hold our centre as we continue to ask these questions.
There are infinite ways to go about arriving at the answer.
Imagine you are on your deathbed.
What is the inscription on your tombstone?
Where is your joy?
What is the intersection of your joy, skills, and service to others?
How to measure your life is not a summary of stuff, accumulation, fame, or success. It is answering questions like – when the chips were down, did you choose the high or low road? How much love and joy did you share with the world? Was laughter ever present in your life? Did you show up for yourself on full beam? Were your partner and family better for you being in their lives? Did you speak the truth with love and compassion? Did you stand for the good, the true and the beautiful, no matter what?
*In Syntropic World we have a remarkable tool/process/experience called the Synergistic Audit that enables us to measure the whole of our life.
**The irony is we measure business differently from life. Perhaps this is as strong an indication of any that business is designed entropically, anti-life. A Syntropic Enterprise measures the whole and is towards greater life for all.
Photo Taken May 3rd 2023
