January 2021 - The Future Mindset

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The recent book I read was Think Like A Monk By Jay Shetty. The chapter on purpose which he calls finding your Dharma. Got me thinking about my purpose. I learnt how purpose can unlock a more meaningful life. Now I want to apply it to my own life. Within this article, we will go on a journey to find our own too.

What Is Purpose?

This can be interpreted in many different ways. From getting something done to complete your life’s mission. A purpose is a destination you want to navigate towards. Something that lights a fire in your brain and body that you can’t ignore.

The reason why so many people feel like their life is going nowhere or bored is that they are not following their purpose. Purpose can be deconstructed into many moving parts. We have a purpose to get out of bed in the morning. A purpose to make sure there’s food on the table.

Without even knowing we are fulfilling many purposes that have major effects on our lives each day. The purpose we are going to discuss and find out here is the purpose that’s out front dragging every fire of your being in that direction.

Why is Purpose important?

How purpose can unlock a more meaningful life. — Photo by Jacob Bentzinger on Unsplash

You might ask why can purpose be all that important. You might have struggled all your life to find it. Even now I’m still navigating my way to my ultimate purpose.

Luckily we have people who have found their purpose in life, for example, everyone would have thought Andre Agassi purpose was to play tennis and becoming a grand slam champion would be fulfilling this vision, but in fact, he hated tennis and once retired he found his purpose in life helping underprivileged children in his home town and this is what truly made him happy.

This shows that when you find your ultimate purpose life becomes evermore enjoyable and your experiences with yourself and others flourish too.

Finding our purpose is why we live in a world that’s so different compared to a thousand years ago. With so many people from Da Vinci to Elon Musk finding their life’s purpose. This intern helps so many people and society grow for the better which only shows its importance.

What does purpose expert Jay Shetty Believe?

Jay Shetty believes purpose is when your natural talents and passions connect with what the universe needs and become your purpose, that’s when you are living in your Dharma. He also states you should feel the passion when the process is pleasing and your execution is skilful. And the response from others should be positive, showing that your passion has a purpose.
Think Like A Monk

Hes magic formula is PASSION + EXPERTISE + USEFULNESS = DHARMA

Anyone who wants to discover more about purpose he’s book and podcast is a great start.

How purpose can unlock a more meaningful life

The best thing about humanity is that we are all unique with different likes and dislikes. Which means we can all follow what our purpose is in life. Is it being a teacher or an inventor? Whatever your passions are. You have to find and follow it. Humanity needs it and it needs your joy and happiness in doing so. We all have one shot at life and a question you don’t want to ask yourself is what could have been if… This is not how we all want to go. We want to depart from Earth knowing we lived a life of purpose that was on our terms.

There are so many people now turning away from 9 – 5 jobs to climb mountains, retire at 30 or become an influencer online. Even becoming a writer through blogging. These people have more fire in their belly, they are happier than they would ever be rather than doing something we are taught is the right path in life.

Whatever you’re doing now that is not aligned with your purpose. Don’t look down on the position you have. View it as you have just warmed up the position for someone who’s purpose is do what you don’t want to.

Some people hate cleaning while some people love it. That’s the same for everything in life. You just have to find what your purpose is to achieve in life.

Still Have To Put In The Effort

Even when you find your purpose don’t expect that’s job done, the same work ethic, learning and mindset towards any task will still have to be achieved. The only underlying difference is your energy levels of passion will keep you going through any hardship. Laziness does not attract success even if it is your purpose. Your purpose is your responsibility, so you have to rely on yourself to take action on it. Only you can control this.

My Top Tips We Can All Do Today

Learn new skills to find your purpose
Do not stay doing something you hate, plan to leave it behind
Find out what your strengths and weakness are
Follow your passions, follow your heart
Connect your values to your purpose

Final Thoughts

I hope you enjoyed today’s article – How purpose can unlock a more meaningful life.

It’s apparent how effective having a purpose can have on your mental well-being in life. Don’t worry if you haven’t found your life purpose. It will take as long as it takes. As long as your pursing it and following your passions. We are all put on Earth to do something special. We just have to listen out for what it is.

If you have found your life’s purpose. What is it? We would love to know!

Hi I’m Adam

I’ve spent over 10 years coaching and mentoring people within sport and business. I have many life skills that I have developed and I want to pass these skills on so people can find their best self. I believe it all starts in the mind and I write about valuable tools and strategies to help people grow in this area.

https://thefuturemindset.com/about/

The power of the mind has always been a massive interest. So I did my own research on the interesting benefit running can have on the mind.

What Made Me Start Running

Long-distance running was a mainstay during my school years. We always dreaded this day with our PE teacher. He was very old school and would bark at us the whole way around the field. Lucky for me I happened to be quite good. This led to my selection to go on many cross country events. I knew nothing of how fast I should go or when to conserve energy. So I tended to just save my energy and have a Mo Farah style late dash or if you’re a bit old the famous Kelly Holmes last-ditch sprint.

My running days were a distant past as I got older. That was until the year of the virus. A less active lifestyle started putting on the pounds. Acid Reflux especially was starting to affect my health. I was concerned so I went for a blood check-up. I was a bit apprehensive in all honesty but when the news came back. To my surprise, I had cholesterol levels that were doing me no favours. My love of sugar and my new inactive lifestyle were to blame.

With a hint of fear behind me, I got to work to change this cholesterol reading. Then a yearning came from nowhere to run.

A book called Born To Run by Christopher McDougall which shows the interesting benefits running has on the mind of the Tarahumara Native people of Mexico. Was a favourite of mine over the summer. This gave extra incentive to dust off my running shoes and go running.

With this in mind, I bought a Fitbit and the next day I started to run.

What’s The Article Goal

Within this article, I will explain my health and physical improvements I have developed through running. Digging deeper I will discuss the positive benefits running has had on my mind. Through new research, I will back up how running can benefit all of us to improve our own lives.

The Health Benefits Of Running

The whole reason I started to run was to lower my cholesterol. To my amassment, some other health benefits quickly improved as well

Lowers resting heart rate
Lowers Blood pressure
Increases a strong immune system
Diabetes levels
Cardiovascular fitness

With so many health benefits contributing to my overall health I wondered why I didn’t take up running sooner.

New Research On Running

The interesting benefit running can have on the mind — Photo by Brian Erickson on Unsplash

Research on the running benefits has been vast. Studies have proved that chemicals released into the body can help improve people with mental health problems such as depression to feel an improved state. Also, epidemiological and clinical research demonstrates that exercise reduces the risk for mood disorders, degree of symptoms, and incidence of relapse.

New research has dug even deeper to prove this research correct. They did so by discovering how molecules change when doing aerobic exercise. They announced it as the hope molecule. It showed the positive effects exercise such as running can have on our mental health.

Participants found this had success in treating depression. As well, aerobic exercise of moderate intensity, done 3 times weekly, for a minimum of 9 weeks. Helped treat depression with a high success rate.

This is amazing news for anyone suffering mentally from mood disorders like depression for example. I’ve even seen in myself the positive effects mentally that running 3 to 5 times a week can have.

Let’s say that running isn’t possible for you it has been proven any aerobic exercises can offer the same conclusion.

The Interesting Benefit Running Can Have On The Mind

After running for 4 weeks and being my very own test dummy. The mental benefits I gained from running were surprisingly quick. It showed how natural this is for humans. The reward I achieved was the release of endorphins, dopamine plus a whole range of other chemicals being released to aid me.

After a month of running, I became more outgoing again, confident and happy. Anxiety levels reduced dramatically and I gained a new sense of control that I hadn’t felt in a while. Crazy to think every night before bed I looked forward to getting up run the next day. The addictive high of running was real.

This just goes to show when humans go back to basics. We find out what mother nature intended our body’s to do.

We find a part of us that’s real and happy. Humans are not meant to stay indoors all day working and watching TV. Nor are we built to hooked to a phones 24/7. As much as these things are useful and entertaining we should treat these as a bonus in our life.

The main focus should be what makes our mind and body thrive. Socialising with people in human contact, spending time in nature and exercising in the form of running for sure is one of them.

For anyone suffering from anxiety or depression. Getting outside and start running can be a huge benefit. Alongside the release of chemicals in your mind to boost your mood to positive levels.

The first step is the hardest but once you get going the reward is worth it.

The Round-Up

That, for now, concludes this article – The interesting benefit running can have on the mind.

I hope it shows what you can achieve for your own health by picking up aerobic exercise, especially running.

We are built to run.

So let’s use it to help build our body’s and minds to its peak performance. By doing this we can gain the full benefits of what we can achieve as humans.

Especially within the mind and if we can lower the cases of depression and anxiety from controlling our lives. Then that’s an amazing achievement for everyone. The data proves this to be the case. Now it’s down to you to test it out.

Hi I’m Adam

https://thefuturemindset.com/about/