Winning in life shouldn't be your goal.

That's finite and pointless. With finite goals, you have to reach the end.

What's the end of life? Death.

Do we really want to "win" if the reward is death?

Nah. That's not for me.

The point of life, business, health, and wealth isn't to win.

It's to stay in the game.

Shoutout to Alex Hormozi for today's lesson.

So how do you stay in the game?

Quite simply: don't quit.

To empower others, you need to feel empowered yourself. And feeling empowered is simpler than you think.

Leaning on Hormozi's philosophy and Stephen R. Covey's Habit #3 of putting first things first, here is how you take control, feel empowered...and then empower others.

And it'll take less than 3 minutes.

Identify

To learn how to stay in the game, you need to know why you're playing at all.

Jim Collins calls this the hedgehog concept.

Matt Gray calls it your Ikigai.

Stephen R. Covey calls it your personal mission statement.

In short, you need to know the answer to the following question.

"Why do I do what I do?"

If you can't answer it, disregard the remaining steps. It is from this foundation that you will be able to feel empowered.

Without it, you'll feel aimless.

So how do you get it? That's pretty simple too.

Answer these 4 questions and you'll find your reason for being (aka: your personal mission in life):

• What do I love?

• What am I good at?

• What does the world need?

• How do I fill that space?

Try and synthesize your answers into one sentence.

Congratulations, you've found your mission. Let's move on.

Organize

With your personal mission in hand, you need to channel that for good.

For a lot of people this is their full-time job or side hustle.

This part's really simple.

If you can fulfill your mission in your full-time job, prioritize the tiny steps that help you work towards that each morning.

If you don't fulfill your mission in your full-time job, start with 5 minutes a day, ideally in the morning, where you're working towards that privately.

For instance, if you work as an executive of a tech firm but you're mission in life is to help at-risk youth. Your morning could include:

• One cold outreach email to a local shelter offering to volunteer

• Reading a book about the free lunch system

• Finding ways to support local politicians who run on your ideal platforms

• Journaling about your long-term vision for having more of an impact in this space

Start small. You won't have hours to dedicate to your mission at the beginning.

But try and add 1-5 minutes every day.

If you're not dedicated to your mission for even 5 minutes a day, can you truly say it's what you're meant to do in life?

Just start.

Set your timeline

Whether you believe in goal setting or not, if you're to fulfill your mission in life, you have to work at it.

You'll never feel empowered if you don't.

And here's the harsh truth: no one is going to care about it as much as you.

That means you have to advocate for yourself to get it done. The easiest way to do this?

Dedicated time.

Block off time in your calendar every day. Keep a journal handy at work, in the car, in the bedroom.

It may feel informal. It may feel like you're not doing enough. It may feel like the stars aren't aligning.

That takes time.

But the way to achieve your mission is to attack it with intention. Blocking out time is the BEST way to be intentional about it.

Finally

Just don't quit.

If you know your mission, you've organized how your going to work at it, and set aside time for when to do it, the only thing that's left is to not stop.

Difficulty will happen. Failure will happen. Self-doubt will be there.

Push through all of that.

Every single person you're looking at today who you think is successful has suffered and still suffers from all of these.

But they don't quit.

That's how you stay in the game.

Don't focus on winning. Focus on hanging in there.

That's where empowerment comes from.

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