5 Spectacular Reasons To Purposefully Become the Master of Your Own Destiny
“Life is the sum of your choices” — Albert Camus
“Life is the sum of your choices” — Albert Camus
What is Lifestyle Design?
Lifestyle design is about choice.
It’s about choosing with purpose & intention the kind of life you want to live, including what you do, where you do it, who you do it with, and making it happen.
Why Design Your Life?
So why design your life?
Why not just go to school, get good grades, get a degree, get a good job, meet the partner of your dreams, have kids, buy a house, car, pets, etc., and let the chips fall as they lay?
As long as you’re happy, that’s all good, right?
Well, yes and no.
Apart from the obvious, such as, you’re likely paying too much tax to corrupt governments who rarely spend tax dollars wisely. (I’ll save my political opinions for drunken evenings with friends).
Here are 5 reasons you should be designing your life;
1. You Only Have One Life
As I’m sure you’re more than aware, you only have one shot at life on this planet.
As Steve Jobs says, why spend it living someone else’s life.
Designing your life ensures that you’re living with intention and that the choices you make every day are yours and yours alone.
It means doing what you want to do, when you want to do it, and from where you want to do it.
If you live for 80 years, that’s only 4000 weeks.
When you put it like that, our whole life is a lot shorter than we think, so we need to be grabbing the juice out of every single day.
2. Freedom of Choice
The ‘Four Hour Work Week’ inspired me to change my life and start travelling the world, as I’m sure it did for thousands of other solopreneurs and digital nomads.
In a section that struck home with me, Tim muses about the possibility that;
‘The 80-hour-per-week, $500,000-per-year investment banker is less ‘powerful’ than the employed NR (what he calls new rich or in my terms solopreneur) who works ¼ the hours for $40,000, but has complete freedom of when, where, and how to live.’
The fact is that when you compare lifestyles, the solopreneur earning only $40k/year may actually have a far better life than the financially wealthy investment banker.
And that’s because real wealth (or power, as Tim puts it) is in the ability to choose.
Ultimate freedom comes from being able to make the life choices you want to make.
Whether you want to work in a 9–5 job or travel the world, wealth, freedom & happiness is about choice, not money.
3. Opportunity
It’s easier than ever to create an online lifestyle business you can run from anywhere in the world.
Do you love to bake?
These days you can spend your days baking, making videos about it, building an audience and making money from your passion.
Do you love to make jewellery?
Do you love health and fitness?
Do you enjoy talking about sports with your friends?
Are you obsessed with yoga?
Do you wish someone had given you the parenting advice you’d now love to give others?
It doesn’t matter what your passions are. You can make money from them online.
You can talk about, create content around, make videos about and live your passions every single day, when you want to and from where you want to.
Case in point I am speaking this blog post while walking back and forth in the Andaman ocean in Phuket, Thailand, and I have to say, avoiding a jellyfish that just got quite close to my leg.
4. Security
If the pandemic has shown us anything, it’s how insecure jobs are.
It’s time to take control of your financial destiny.
Once you know how much your ideal lifestyle costs, you can purposely set out to ensure that you can generate that monthly income with the ultimate flexibility.
You are now in control of your financial destiny rather than leaving it in the hands of someone else.
Whether you need to add side hustles, start a lifestyle business, or invest fully into becoming an entrepreneur.
The beauty of lifestyle design means it’s entirely up to you. You choose what you do.
5. Time
Time is our most precious asset.
The one thing that we can never get back is time.
Hence why you need to be making the most of every minute of every day.
For example, I got up at 4 am this morning to complete two posts that I wanted to publish on Medium before coming to the beach to relax and record this post.
When we leave at 12, that will be the end of my working day.
I will spend the rest of the day with my husband & daughter.
That is the ultimate in mastering your time and having complete freedom.
That is lifestyle design.
Start Today!
The recent meteoric advances in technology mean that lifestyle design is easier now than ever.
The pandemic brought remote working into the mainstream and the opportunities to generate an income entirely online are abundant.
By choosing to become your own lifestyle designer today, in just a few months, you could be so much closer to living the life of your dreams.
Get started today and give yourself the opportunity to make better choices because you have more money, more time and more passion for what you’re doing than ever before!
This post is a modified extract from the full blog post — What is Lifestyle Design and 5 Steps to Living the Life of Your Dreams