Why do I want to have the experience / feeling of not knowing the difference between my career and everything else I do?
This is also similar to some of the previous topics. From an efficiency standpoint, I’ll be more motivated to do things that are aligned to my mission.
Hmm, efficiency in achieving my mission. Let’s say I have X amount of energy in a day. 100% of it can be aligned and invested in a day to activities that will move me closer to my mission. It doesn’t need to all be the same type of thing either. Like you can achieve a mission in multiple ways.
So even when you are operating at the space when all 4 of the items in Ikigai are there, there will be other things you do. People may invest 20% of their energy towards achieving their goals. What I’m trying to say here is I can invest 50% of my waking time towards things outside of my actual job.
100% of it doesn’t change. It just becomes a bigger and bigger circle. That’s growth. Where 50% of your potential is 100% of someone else’s. (If we had to compare, which I don’t prefer to.) It’s more efficient to have a mission, any mission, doesn’t have to be static, and work towards it than to not have one.
Focus on achieving that mission and along the way, it’ll naturally shift. So write a mission that you want to achieve and that’s step 1. It’s better to achieve 10% towards a defined mission that resonates with you than 50% towards someone else’s mission that doesn’t resonate with you. That’s actually more efficient.
Time and energy are theoretically the same. But in a human sense, they’re not always so. 2 hours ≠ 20 minutes in units of time. But 2 hours could = 20 min in terms of energy. I could spend 20 minutes of intentional energy, highly focused, non-distracted time and that could be way more impactful than 2 hours of distracted time, low focus time. So I should be doing things that maximize that time and focus intensity.
One of the best ways to maximize that is to define and articulate a mission. Then you know how the time you’re spending falls into that direction.
A (fulfillment = 70%) B (fulfillment = 30%)
Let’s say your current career doesn’t fall into the 70% or 30% of fulfillment. Then let’s say you spend 10% of your time working on something that is aligned with your mission. I would argue that it’s 10% vs 0% in the case of B where you don’t have a defined mission.
But even if it was closer to 10% vs 10% of time on mission-related things, the quality of the time is not the same. Because there’s not context to the time, or very little. So the quality of time when you’re doing something you want to be doing is closer to 100% compared to 0% for the latter.
Let’s say it’s 80% to 20%. 80% of 10% = 8%. But 20% of even 10% is 2%. And really, if it’s 0%, 20% of 0% is 0%. That’s why people who spend 4 hours a day on something are able to achieve more than others who may spend 8 hours a day on something.
It’s the Vision, Alignment, and Focus.
So what if we quantified these? Having a Mission is related to the Vision. Alignment score is how aligned is the time breakdown of your day in relation to that Vision? Then the Focus score is how potent that energy within the time block is.
If perfect all the way, it’s 100% x 100% x 100% = 100%. For me, I’d say I’m currently operating at 80% of my mission (how clear it is) x 80% of my alignment (time management) x 70% (focus in each time block) = 44.8%.
Is that my potential? I’m operating at 45% of my current potential.
Oooh. What if I combine this with comfort zone / learning zone stuff here? That as we grow our comfort zone, we realize more of our potential. So the 3 dimensions of potential here are Vision, Alignment, and Focus.
As I continue expanding and getting clearer about my Mission(s), the more my potential grows. That’s in the learning zone area. To bring it into the area of ‘what I know I don’t know.
Comfort zone = what I know
Learning zone = what I know I don’t know
Danger zone = what I don’t know I don’t know
Infinite - bubble = what I don’t know I know
This is potential quantified and combined with the learning zone model. More synthesis to come.
The answer to the original question if you missed it: it’s more efficient and effective.
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