Most people live their lives trapped in reactions to daily events, choosing what they do moment to moment based on what others do to them rather than proactively designing and executing an overarching plan of what they want out of life. The life plan provides a way to make everything in your life intentional.
When your life is intentional, it ceases to take the normal form of fragmentation between what we must do and what we want to do. Whether in an outside job or in the home, so many people see their time in these two categories, working because they have to, not because they want to. They drudge away for hours, days, weeks, and months to finance the necessities of life or the next short adventure, only to find themselves back in the slog, no happier than when they started, to repeat the loop forever.
With such an outlook, why would anyone feel meaning in what they do? How could they, when they pursue work as separate from what is meaningful to them?
It is possible to arrange your life in such a way that your every action is integrally aimed at your highest purpose, and as you do so, you will find deep meaning in everything you do.
Work is its own reward when you are laboring for what is most important to you. Gone will be the former split between what you have to do and what you want to do. You’ll only do what intentionally leads to what you want the most, and accordingly, you’ll recognize everything you need to do as being what you want to do, no matter how mundane or difficult it might be.
While this might seem too good to be true, it isn’t. In fact, many of these changes are in such small ways that as you learn about and make them, your life may not be recognizably different to anyone else’s. While you will absolutely make changes to what you do and when you do it as a result of this book, the biggest change will be to why you do what you do. By arranging your life around what is most important to you, you will inject the greatest meaning throughout every aspect of your life.