Your ”why” to live is greater than your how.

He who has a why to live, can bare with any how. 

Knowing your ikigai allows you to:

• be content when things are crazy
• Focus on yourself and others
• Control your daily routine
• Direct your personal growth
• Direct your drive and motivation 
• Be proactive 
• Anchors your life and influences decisions 

 

With your ikigai in mind you have your “why” to live. Following your why, the how flows to you and through you. Your day to day actions follow your ikigai when you have settled on what they are. 

 

Write down what you feel is your ikigai is. 

It may be more than one. But not too many, they will start to conflict. 

 

If you need help, write down 10 things you did that you actually and enjoyed and brings a smile to your face just thinking about it. 

 

Look closely at the ten. Is there an underlying connection to most of them? Throughout your life, has this little action always been there? 

That might be part of your ikigai! 

 

Look at Jesus and His declaration at the start of his ministry: 

“The Spirit of the LORD is upon Me, Because He has anointed Me To preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives And recovery of sight to the blind, To set at liberty those who are oppressed; To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD.” Luke 4:18-19 NKJV

 

Later on they asked Jesus if He was the One. He had bed been living according to his ikigai, and he told them this:

 

“Jesus answered and said to them, “Go and tell John the things you have seen and heard: that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, the poor have the gospel preached to them.” Luke 7:22 NKJV

 

In a nutshell, our why, (our ikigai living day to day) gives insight to the how, which ultimately reveals the results that will be coming. 

 

He who has a why to live, can bare with any how, because the how’s are produced by it.