Stephanie Harrison

And so this is an exercise where I encourage people to just turn inward and ask themselves, what do I need right now?

What are you spending your time on right now?

Because as we talked about, we're all driven by goals, even if we don't have a conscious awareness of them.

Or what do I want to do?

And so grabbing a piece of paper, journaling about, hey, what am I spending my time on these days?

What does my true self want to do in this exact moment?

And then do it, even if it sounds weird, even if it's something that you wouldn't normally do, or maybe it gets in the way of how productive you are today.

And you might write down a bunch of things.

You might say, oh, I'm trying to please my boss by doing well on this project.

I really want to run a marathon this year.

And simply doing that allows you to start moving in the direction of living an authentic and meaningful life.

I'm really nervous about a fight I'm having with my sister.

You just write down everything that's on your mind that you're trying to figure out or solve.

Because in fact, what you will be doing is with that action, you'll be tapping into something that's intrinsically important to you.

And then just go through and mark down any of them that seem like they're extrinsic and see if you can drop them.

So it's a little bit of a hack if you don't want to go through the whole goal setting audit, you can just start acting intrinsically and then seeing where that takes you and following the path as it's laid in front of you.

let go of them, change them in some way, or find something to replace them.

And the more that we do that, the more that we can really orient our lives around the things that matter most to us.

Basically.

And I know it sounds so simple, but it's actually quite radical in some ways in a world where we're often on autopilot.