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014 Living On Purpose

Learn the magic question to identify your ONE THING in life. ________________________________________________________________ TRANSCRIPT Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.  - Buddha   Welcome back, Victor. This is INVICTUS. Once you decide to live your life with a clear purpose, you might want to identify what this really means. What could your life's purpose be?   Let's keep things easy while introducing a powerful concept to you. In fact, there is ONE magic question that, in some variations, will help you to find your focus and priority in any given situation. Regarding your life's purpose, the focus question can be phrased exactly like this: What's the ONE thing I can do in my life that would mean the most to me and the world, such that by doing it, everything else would be easier or unnecessary? Let us repeat that. What's the ONE thing I can do in my life that would mean the most to me and the world, such that by doing it, everything else would be easier or unnecessary? Many people receive an instant answer once they ask themselves this particular question. And that is again a fantastic thing from your inside power: Even if you have never consciously thought about your life's purpose, your unconscious mind has always guided you in the right direction. So you won't start with empty hands. Are you open to the idea that you arrived on this planet with a specific purpose already? Anyway, we'll work on rediscovering your purpose in 5 easy steps. Those steps are writing exercises, so make sure to spare about 30 minutes in a quiet environment before you move on. Really, Victor, take your time on this. This will, in all likelihood, be the most important 30 minutes in your life. Remember Mark Twain? "The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why." Well, today is one of them. 30 minutes spare in privacy? Seriously? Stop Lying, Victor. Alright, here we go. Be prepared to pause the audio after listening to each of the five steps and only continue listening once you have finished each task.  STEP 1 - ACTIVITIES On the spot and without any prior preparation, list 4 to 5 activities that you are enthusiastic about. These could be those you engage in at your workplace, with your family or community, or as a hobby, sport, etc. Feel free to mix and match the activities you've thought of without assigning any particular order or spending too much time thinking about them. Simply write down whatever comes to mind initially. Ready? Pause the audio and GO! STEP 2 - RESULTS In the same manner, swiftly jot down 4 to 5 results that you are passionate about. Again, those may pertain to your work, your family, community, the environment, other people, etc. Avoid dwelling on it too much. Suppose you find yourself trying to decide whether or not you are passionate about a particular outcome. In that case, it's okay to skip it and focus on something instantly resonating with you. Ready? Pause the audio and GO! STEP 3 - MARKING Without overthinking it, from the previous lists, mark the ONE activity and the ONE outcome most meaningful to you. Again, no rational dwelling on anything. Just quick and dirty from your instinctive brain. Ready? Pause the audio and GO! STEP 4 - ANSWER Now it's time to knit it all together while making use of the magic ONE question being: "What is the ONE thing I can do in my life that would mean the most to me in the world, such that by doing it, everything else would be easier or unnecessary?" Phrase your answer to that question while implementing the items marked in step 3. By doing so, you may or may not uncover a potential connection between your ONE most meaningful activity and your ONE most meaningful outcome. This might feel strange at the first moment. However, something will be in it since you've worked somewhat from your unconscious mind.  Ready?  Pause the audio and GO! STEP 5 - FINETUNING Congrats on finishing the very first written version of your life's purpose. Yes, that's exactly what you just did! This initial draft doesn't have to be perfect. However, you made another huge step. So, keep that written piece for further reference. The final step is to finetune your purpose statement. Contact a trusted friend, relative, or coworker, and inquire about what stands out to them when they contemplate your life's purpose. Listen to what they say and see if there's something you want to integrate into your purpose statement. However, you don't have to. After that, check your purpose by reading it out loud a few times. How does it feel? Can you shorten or simplify it? Can it be more straightforward? No need to enforce. If you are fine with any version, that's perfectly acceptable. Just express it in a way that feels most resonant with you. Still, it is 'YOUR unique life' and 'YOUR unique life's purpose.' Ready? Go. and USE IT! You now have a feasible answer to the ONE question: What's the ONE thing I can do in my life that would mean the most to me and the world, such that by doing it, everything else would be easier or unnecessary? Make sure to write the answer as a bold code line in your codebook. In addition, you can hang it on your fridge or your mirror and use it as a screensaver on any display. Take care that your life's purpose is always on your mind. Conscious - and even more important - unconscious. Your purpose statement doesn't have to be perfect. Just stick with the respective best version. You can ask the magic ONE question again anytime and modify your statement if appropriate. Now that you have your life's purpose clear, things will get easier day by day. You will enjoy more clarity, sharpness, and satisfaction in your life. You will move faster. You will experience greater results that align perfectly with what really matters to you. In the following seasons, we will train you to harness your mighty purpose power. Keep in mind that your unique purpose statement is never comparative or competitive. It's not meant to impress others. It is your individual guiding star. It's there to serve you alone.  You will always know you're on the right path if it evokes pleasant emotions within you. Enjoy the feeling of again being in alignment with who you are. Welcome home, Victor. Checkpoint Phrase your life's purpose statement and add it to your codebook. Code Line Suggestion My life's purpose is (fill in the blank) And this concludes season 1 of the INVICTUS Pepcast. You did a killer job, and we can't wait to welcome you in season 2. Well done, Victor. You truly are THE ONE.

013 The Holy Grail

Here it is, Victor. The Holy Grail of your life. Your prison break won't ever work without it. ________________________________________________________________ TRANSCRIPT He who has a why to live for, can bear almost any how. - Friedrich Nietzsche The Holy Grail Alright, Victor! You've set another important framework. Somewhere between your wishlist and your Fck You List, there lies your life's sweet spot. In addition, you have already phrased the first version of your answer to the BIGGEST question in a previous unit. WHY AM I? Today, let's nail it. So that you can determine it as clearly as possible - The Holy Grail of YOUR life. Your life's purpose. Your life's purpose is the ONE BIG THING in your life. While you can certainly have many projects, there should be only ONE purpose behind all of them. Your purpose serves as your guiding star or compass, so having more than ONE purpose in life makes absolutely no sense. Your ONE and ONLY purpose will lead you to choose the right projects, set the proper priority, boost your productivity, control your progress, and determine your profit. Your purpose is the foundation of everything you want to achieve in life. Just research the most successful people in any given field, and you will always find that they have a clear purpose. Purpose is THE ONE THING that keeps you on track so that you won't need much discipline, willpower, or any other mystical ingredient. When building and working with a team (which we will be discussing soon), you want to look for people with a high and clear purpose. Only THEY will ensure that your team works productively and progresses constantly. Purpose makes things easy. Purpose is about where you are going, while priority is what is important to get there. Productivity, on the other hand, is actually doing the right things to follow your purpose. Think of a holiday trip to the mountains. Your desire to get there represents your purpose. You will identify one prioritized step after the other, like booking the hotel, buying equipment, checking the car, et cetera. Eventually, you will get productive by executing everything in the right order. Until you finally reach your destination, hence enjoying the profit of your practice. Take the purpose (the desire to be on vacation in the mountains) out of the equation. You will instantly find that the pursued result is nearly impossible. No priority, progression, or profit without purpose. Successful holiday mission completion is easy. Well, so is basically every other mission completion, as long as it is purpose-driven. It goes even deeper. Who we are (remember, the story that we tell about ourselves.) And where we want to go (aka our purpose.)  Determine what we do (or don't do.)  And therefore, where we will end up in life. A life lived on a deliberate, self-chosen purpose is the most powerful life of all. And presumably, it's the only one worth living. Purpose is power. Always knowing what matters to you both gives and saves you power. While focusing on the actions aligned with your purpose, you can quickly go all in and avoid all the other bullshit. A defined life's purpose will speed up things because you will make faster decisions. That means you will frequently be the first decision-maker, granting you the best options. Even when things get tough, purpose is your life-saver. It will instantly guide you to rethink, react, and redirect. So that you can easily take a new path that leads you again toward - well, your purpose. So, no chance to argue, right? Before you start any mission, have a clear purpose. And since your life itself should be your most important mission far and wide, be sure to have a hell of a life purpose. Checkpoints Start leading your life on purpose, Victor. Think about the concept presented while looking back at all the code lines you have written until here. Do you agree that your life is worthy enough to be led with a clear purpose?  If the answer is 'Yes,' today's code lines may be the most important ones in your entire codebook. It's your Holy Grail, Victor. Code Line Suggestion I choose to lead my life with a clear purpose. Over to you, Victor. Before you head over to the next episode, make sure to have about 30 minutes spare in a quiet environment with no disturbance. Meet you there. Remember, you are THE ONE.

012 What Not?

Let's face the naked truth, Victor. You've tolerated too much fcking bullshit for decades. It's time to go hard or go home. ________________________________________________________________ TRANSCRIPT When angry, count four. When very angry, swear. - Mark Twain Welcome back, Victor. This is INVICTUS. So you just made a nice fairy-driven wishlist for your life, right? Do you know the problems with those wishlists and why they are useless for most of us? Want to know the reason many classical coaching concepts never work? Here's why. There are no fairies. Sorry to tell you so. Life will not grant you anything from your list as long as you don't take specific action toward it. The list you made is pure fiction and fantasy. It's nothing but a list of nice-to-haves. It's a list of dreams. None of them will ever come true if you don't 'make' them come true. So, forget the concept of sitting and waiting and dreaming. Remember, time is running out. Memento Mori. Every second you spend in fantasy land is one second less to take action. Sure, you can keep your wishlist for reference. No problem, Victor. However, we encourage you to focus on the facts rather than on fiction. Thus, we will present you with a much more powerful tool at this point.  Let's call it the FCK YOU List. Once more, this list is precisely what the name suggests. It contains everything that you would loudly shout 'Fck You!' on. Put on that list everything you are not willing to tolerate any longer. List everything and everyone that makes you sick. We encourage you to reveal to yourself the naked truth of your life and the things that are holding you back.  That's what makes the difference. The Fck You List is not about fiction and fantasy.  It's about the current facts. It's not about things you wish. It's about things that ARE. So stop right there with being a victim of your dreams. Instead, look at the facts as ugly as they might be and become the master of your facts. Stop lying! Again, we urge you to leave behind the game of lying, Victor. The purpose of this drill is to set you free. It's the facts that will set you free, not the fiction. We are already in the process of building your armory and preparing for your prison break. The Fck You List is a crucial part of that armament. You've tolerated so much fcking bullshit for decades. You've been spending so much time figuring out someone else's formula, following someone else's ideas. You've lived so far beneath your potential, beneath your means, beneath what you deserve, beneath what you know you could create. You've been hiding and sedating yourself, quietening the voice that's been calling you for so long. It's time to look in the mirror, Victor. To actually face yourself. And to face those prison-break questions. WHAT DO I NOT WANT ANYMORE? WHAT DO I REFUSE TO TOLERATE ANY LONGER? WHAT AM I NOT WILLING TO TAKE ANYMORE? Take your time on this. Do not rush through it. Do not underestimate this powerful tool.  You are about to take the first steps on your road to freedom. It's worth truly determining what's wrong with your life. Go hard or go home. It's okay to dislike what shows up in your life. It's okay to get angry and to use explicit language here. It's not the time to be diplomatic. It's time to get real, raw, and radical. If you need inspiration, here are some examples from other Victors. I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired. I refuse to run the rat race. Fck you, high cholesterol. I refuse to live in this fcked-up marriage. I hate to be broke. I refuse to take orders from other people. I refuse to waste my time with those false friends. I don't want to live in slavery any longer. Fck you, debts. I refuse to live on drugs. I'm sick and tired of my job that barely pays my rent. Fck you, Facebook.  I'm sick and tired of being overweight (I'm fat as a walrus) I hate those useless conversations with my family. Fck you, Carl (Husband) Fck you, Sally (Co-worker) I hate you, cancer. I hate to disappoint myself. I hate smoking. I hate my fat belly. I refuse to suffer from financial obedience. I hate to have no real goals in life. Fck the government. Fck the fear.  It's time to clearly illustrate what really fcks your life up, Victor.  Tell yourself the truth. Stop lying. Start writing. Checkpoint Put the naked truth on paper and keep your Fck You List for further reference. Code Line Suggestion I won't tolerate all that bullshit any longer. I'm going to be the master of the facts. Now over to you, Victor. Take your time to write your all-embracing Fck You List. It's a crucial tool to have at hand when heading for freedom. Meet you in the next episode of the INVICTUS Pepcast. Remember, you are THE ONE.

011 What?

It's dreamtime, Victor. So, let's welcome the fairy and go wild with all your wishes. ________________________________________________________________ TRANSCRIPT Stay hungry. Stay foolish. - Steve Jobs Alright, Victor. You've just phrased the first version of your life's purpose. Kudos to you! This really puts you aside from most of the other players out there. It's a tremendous step to stop the drift, make the shift, and do the lift. You are straight on your one-way trip. Emerging from the position of prey to the position of the hunter. Chances are that your purpose is somewhat along the lines of expansion, progression, growth, and becoming more. As an intelligent human being, you might instantly ask what the fuck this could mean in concrete terms. On what should I expand? What kind of progression should I aim for? In which field should I grow? Becoming more in WHAT? So here we go with the next fundamental question: WHAT DO I WANT FROM LIFE? Now, once again - it is YOUR life. So the answers to all those questions are totally up to you. Do not allow anyone else to answer them for you. Instead, let's use a classical coaching tool to assist you in finding your preferred fields of expansion and growth. The wishlist is exactly what the name suggests. It's a list of all your wishes. So imagine one graceful fairy landing on your lap, granting you every wish realistic or unrealistic. Take a clean piece of paper and jot down everything that comes to your mind about what you want from life. There are no limits to your wishlist. It can contain any material thing like a specific car, a house in a certain place, or 5 million Dollars in your bank account. Also, put everything immaterial on your list, like overall health, a great relationship with your mother-in-law, many children, a slim body, love and light, or world peace. Just keep on writing, filling your list with every wish that comes up when you ask yourself: WHAT DO I WANT FROM LIFE? Checkpoints Write your wishlist and keep it for further reference. Code Line Suggestion There is so much I can get from life. Over to you, Victor. Start writing. And only move to the next episode once you have created a proper wishlist. Meet you there. You are THE ONE.

010 Why?

Here it is, Victor. That ONE big question. And you need at least an interim answer to win and win back your life. Let's go! ________________________________________________________________ TRANSCRIPT The two most important days in life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.  - Mark Twain   Welcome back, Victor. This is INVICTUS. The next fundamental question we'd like to bring to your attention is this: WHY AM I? Why are you, and why are you here?  Yes, that's right. It's THAT ONE essential question philosophers of all ages have been asking.  It's THE big question about the purpose of life. Of YOUR life, to be precise. Besides any biological reason, WHY do you exist? No worries, we will keep this concept short enough again. So here we go. Asking Qualified Questions The pursuit of the answer to the question WHY AM I?  has led humans down all kinds of intellectual, philosophical, religious, spiritual, and esoteric paths, looking and searching for revelation. When you compare all those countless concepts, you will find that there's one common denominator shining through all of them. As it happens, all these traditions, sages, all these wise men and women eventually will point you to the idea of listening to some kind of inner guidance. While some name it "God," others simply call it "The Voice" or have given it many other names. The overall idea is that this inner voice, sooner or later, will ultimately answer any qualified question for you. All you have to do is to ask appropriately. Even the answer to that ONE BIG question WHY AM I? should come from your inner voice only and never from an external source. The problem once again is the matter of time running out. While you can certainly sit and meditate for years on  WHY AM I? waiting for the answer, the clock is ticking with no mercy. Memento Mori, Victor. That's why we suggest looking for the answer while you are already in motion. After all, there are only two options at this time. You either already have a compelling answer to that fundamental question WHY AM I? Thus, an answer you are fully satisfied with. If so, you can easily add it as a code line to your personal codebook. Or, you don't have a reasonable answer yet. However, to win and win back your life, you need at least an interim response to WHY AM I? Otherwise, you won't move at all or waste your resources by running in any useless direction. Hence, in case you are still searching, let us suggest a preliminary answer that might serve you well for the moment. Indeed, it's the one many INVICTUS members have chosen as their ultimate answer to the question WHY AM I? Remember, it is still a suggestion for you. Nothing more. Nothing less. Many of us consider the answer about the purpose of life as just one single and global word: Expansion. Thus, the idea is that you are here to expand, to progress, to become more. Thriving to be more tomorrow than you were yesterday. "Becoming more," however, can have an entirely different meaning for everyone. We will go into detail about this in some advanced training units. Meanwhile, if you like, think about whether "expansion" might be as well your answer to the great question of humankind: WHY AM I? Whatever your answer to that question is, write it down in your codebook. Over to you, Victor! Find at least an interim answer to that fundamental question: WHY AM I? Code Line Suggestion I am here to expand, to progress, to grow, and to become more. Move along, Victor.  Meet you in the next episode of the INVICTUS Pepcast. You are THE ONE.