What do you love?
What you’re good at?
What do you need?
What can you be paid for?
In pursuance of these four answers, this Japanese philosophy leads
you to know yourself. Ikigai is a Japanese traditional concept of knowing
yourself, your happiness, and your needs. However, the world is following it to
find its dreams. It’s a solution for all of us. The sooner you explore yourself
the better you get a chance to choose and to grow.
Ikigai is known as, “A reason for Being”, is presented in a
form of an overlapping circle diagram. The confluence of all four spherical
sets makes you acquainted and helps you to meet with your true self. It alters
your life dynamics dramatically. Your answers become your guide and you find
the purpose, the value of your being in the world and being there where you
are.
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In exploration, “Who are you and why you are here?” open new
doors for your abilities. Do ask your kids from a very minor school-going age
as it will boost their learning energy and sharpen their confidence. It helps
them to pave new ways according to their capacities. They will be more focused,
specific, and target-oriented.
If you study some of the names championed today, you can easily track
down or identify a single common trait among the successful professionals
around you. That they all have an objective, a goal, and a purpose which is
very crucial to have and be familiar with for anyone to prosper. Their
acquaintance with their purpose leads them to their goals. Elon Musk is known
for his two companies i.e. Tesla and SpaceX. Steve Jobs, invented
iPhone and gives a masterstroke in the world of IT. Jeff Bezos made Amazon.
Jack Ma created, Alibaba, both making more than 5 hundred million US
dollars of business. Then comes Mark Zuckerberg founder of, Facebook,
how he raised himself as an internet entrepreneur. And there are many, but here
comes the difference in how they reach their influences. Again the answer is
the same that they found their Ikigai and followed their clear crisp goals.
There is a saying that, “an objective without a plan is a dream”.
This means there are two main points to be considered while being curious about
digging down your Ikigai. First is your “Objective” and the other is
your, “plan”. What you are longing, loving, and aspiring to go for is
your Ikigai and then how you take up the things is your plan of action. It is
all matter of what skills, methods, or strategy you adopt to organize or
arrange yourself to find your piece of cake.
Either you desire to earn money or learn new skills; there should
be a sequential process. You should detect how you are going to execute your
plans, or how much time you will take. It may be in one year or two or more
than four years but the important is how you fight with the circumstances or
mold the situations to get to more close to your aims. The word how is the
functional component i.e. the tactic and the tools which take you towards
winning margins.
The familiarity with the objective helps you to understand not only
where to go but also where to grow. For example, you left home to go outside
through whatever means but if you don’t know, why you are leaving home and
where you are heading. It will create a big question mark in your mind
instantly. So to know your intuitions is crucial.
The best way to know yourself is to, ask yourself, fix it and write
it down. It will make you more definite in your journey of identification,
afterwards, strategies, tools, and tactics build your being.
This article is written by Farrukh Anjum, one of the contributors at the School of Literature.
