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One Simple Life-Transforming Hack | Svetka

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In this solo episode, we'll uncover a simple yet powerful life hack to help you live more intentionally and embrace a deeply fulfilling life.





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Hey friends, welcome to the Ones who Dared podcast, where stories of courage are elevated. I'm your host, vekka, and every other week you'll hear interviews from inspiring people. My hope is that you will leave encouraged. I'm so glad you're here. Welcome to the On With your Podcast. My name is Vekka and I'm your host on a solo episode, sharing with you one life hack that has been transformational for my life and, I believe, will be helpful for yours as well.

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Now, this is a hack that I didn't invent. This isn't something that I created or can take credit for. It's something that a lot of successful people do, because it really helps them to align their life and the way that they want to live. If you have listened to Brittany Turner's episode Force for Good in Entrepreneurship, she talks about this as one of the fastest ways to, or fast track to, success. Donald Miller, who is a well known author and a business coach, also talks about this. I have used this method in my retreats that I host, and so I figured I'll share it with you guys, because I think it will help someone out If you apply the what I'm about to share with you. It's easy, it's free, it should take you no more than 15 minutes to maybe an hour if you really take your time, but essentially I can break this down to you in less than five minutes and it can really be useful for your life. And so I feel like, in general, most of us live our lives in a way that we get busy, life gets the best of us and we emphasize we tend to emphasize on things like our area of work or careers or businesses, and those are things that we really develop strategies and plans for to execute in order to reverse engineer our goals and ambitions and work towards them, and not a lot of us really take time to sit back and think about the story that we want to live and the life that we want to live. So the way that this works is essentially. The hack is is you imagining yourself at a funeral and you writing your eulogy in third person, and I know that may sound like a really morbid thing to do, but I promise you this is not and it's something that is really meaningful if you actually take the time to do it.

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Writing a eulogy is a really introspective and meaningful exercise that will allow you to reflect on your values, accomplishments and the legacy that you really want to leave behind and, essentially, it guides you into creating the life that you want to live, and it becomes your North Star. It is something that you can reflect back on, and when you do write your eulogy, it shouldn't be more than a page long, because this is something that you want to be reviewing on, and when you do write your eulogy, it shouldn't be more than a page long, because this is something that you want to be reviewing on a regular basis, to remind yourself of what it is your North Star, what is your guide, what is it that you're striving for and how do you want to live the impact that you want to make. And this way it's short, it's not too long because, remember, you're going to be reading it, and so, when writing a eulogy, here's some things that I want you to keep in mind or reflect on. Number one is reflect on your core values. Think about the principles that guide your life. For example, what do I stand for? What is it that I want to be remembered by those that care about me, whether your family members, perhaps your spouse, your kids, your grandkids, your friends, your community? What is the impact that you want to have on this world, on your is regards to your relationships. How do you want to show love and support other people? What is the role that you play in the people's life that care about you?

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Then you want to think about your achievements. What are some things that you want to achieve in life? What are some contributions that you want to make in the society? What are some challenges that you want to overcome? What are some areas that you want to grow in, develop in whether it's professional or personal milestones that you want to achieve and think about how your life impacts other people, impacts the world, the people that you love, for example, what will people learn from you in your life? As an example, how did you make this world a better place? So, as you reflect on those things, just really get connected with your core values and what you really want to leave behind, because for everyone it's very personal and it's different.

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I have recently updated my eulogy and I've also have a digital version of it now as well as a physical version of it, and essentially what it allows me to do is also allows me to think about what are the areas that I need to realign my life on what I'm striving for and versus the way that I'm living now. Where is an adjustment that needs to be made? Because I want to live a story that is impactful for not just me. I want my life to be a life that impacts people in a positive way, and one of the core mottos that I think about in general one of my favorite quotes of all time is Maya Angelou's quote that says your legacy is every life you touch. And, essentially, a lot of us may have some big ambitions and things that we want to accomplish, but, at the end of the day, each person that we come in contact with is the impact that we make.

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And so take the time to write your eulogy between 15 minutes to an hour, I'd say on one page and just write down some things that is really meaningful to you personally, and don't make it too complicated. You can always revise it, edit it as you go in life, and recently, when I re-edited my eulogy, I also created a 10, 5, and a year plan that can help me to aim towards the legacy that I want to leave. And Stephen Covey puts it this way. He says live with the end in mind, and that, essentially, is what a eulogy becomes. It becomes that end in mind that you always have that perspective, and that perspective will also help you to make better choices in life. It can also allow you to know areas that you may need to declutter, things that you may need to let go of that are not going to help you get to where you're trying to go, and so that's my encouragement to you is write a eulogy. It helps you to really be more in line and, of course, like anything in life, if you don't apply what you're doing, it's kind of useless. So writing a eulogy is your first step to creating the life that you want. It's creating the vision that you want as your core value, as the main principle that you're striving towards.

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So thank you so much for listening to this podcast. I am really grateful for you guys for sharing this podcast, for leaving your reviews and also I'm not sure if you're aware or not, but you can send me a text directly, no matter what platform you listen to. In the description of this episode there is a box that says send a text, and you can send me a text, and I'd be happy to read that and let me know if you write a eulogy. I'd love to hear from you. Thank you so much. You guys have a wonderful week. Thank you for listening to the ones who dare podcast. It is an honor to share these encouraging stories with you. If you enjoy the show, I would love for you to tell your friends. Leave us a reviewer rating and subscribe to wherever you listen to podcasts, because this helps others discover the show. You can find me speckhopoffcom.