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“the journey is more important than the destination” - how profound! I’m a firm believer in this. And I fully agree. Having something work related gives your vacation some meaning, rather than sitting on a beach sunbathing and claiming it’s for relaxation for all the hard work done back at home..

Awesome photos Yaro, Bondi looks beautiful. And did you eat those amazing cakes??

As someone who tells people to ensure they have balance between business and home - yet is guilty of not doing the same myself! - you make some very good points. Enjoy the rest of your holiday!

Hey Yaro,
Bondi beach looks great. I imagine that what you get back from these conferences in terms of the sessions and the networking opportunities diminishes as you attend more and more.

A project with momentum and clear goals is the biggest motivator for me. So I make a point of identifying goals and maintaining momentum.

Oh yeah I can totally relate for the need to find a balance. Actually Yaro I think you must be copying my ideas because I wrote a post about this about a week ago :p

You do need a purpose and it needn’t be a big one. I’ve been working online for about six month now and for the majority of that time I’ve not really had a purpose and I’ve been drifting around all over the place not knowing really what to do and not really getting anywhere.

Finally over the last couple of weeks I find that I am having some clarity. One of the things I do now (and I know not everyone can afford this luxury) is that I don’t start my work day without spending about an hour reading & thinking. I read a lot of inspirational / pesonal development stuff and I read for about half an hour then I just sit with a notepad about ideas for work, what I want to get out of the day and so on. Each day I think about my bigger goals, refine them, decide if they are really what I want to go for and so on.

Its an hour out of my day but I feel it pays for itself later in the day when I can work towards the clear purpose that I am setting for myself.

Haha… nice left out there… looks about 3-4 feet, a little mushy. Where’s your surf board dude?

I’ve never understood the point of sitting on a beach with nothing to do either. Extremes are generally bad, and Freud believed that opposite extremes are just different sides of the same coin.

The person who wastes their life working and the person who wastes their life doing nothing both suffer from the same ailment. But the middle–that glorious middle–that’s where real life is.

Sometimes you need to just choose a purpose, something to work and focus on. I agree with the “death by choice” problem and too many people just drift along, waiting for a purpose to find THEM. I encourage people to pick a purpose and work on it and then in the process they usually find something that means even more to them. But they shouldn’t wait for that one big purpose in their life to come along and hit them in the head, they need to be a lot more proactive!

Nothing in excess… except cake that is, right !

I have a guess why people surrounded by such wealth don’t find their purpose. Here are some clues: sit up straight, don’t talk, do what your told, no you can’t do what you want. Add in the hostility of our society to listening to our bodies (along with idolising them) and I think I know the problem.

As to drifting. In the beginning (Hi to Caroline: I still love your blog) having goals that are too clear can be a problem. It is worth spending time surveying, checking out the terrain, finding the little bits that interest us. Being too focused early on can lead us to ignore what is important (we won’t know what we are missing).

One other comment. A gelato bar in Sydney in 1958??? I don’t think so. They must have changed their name. I grew up in Sydney and visited Bondi too. One of the great things about the last 2 or 3 decades in Sydney (and Australia in general) is that the food choices have improved out of sight.

Very inspiring entry! I agree that life requires balance. Like most of the people here, sitting on a beach doing nothing doesn’t seem like the most “purposeful” way to spend life, does it. I think that life is about many small purposes leading to one big purpose, whatever it may be.

By the way, those cakes look very appetizing. I’m getting hungry just looking at them!

I thought you would have been speaking this year?

Looking relaxed! I want cake to hahah enjoy it all

Man I wish I could go there. I just got back from Mexico where wireless internet is scarce or non-existent. That meant a week of no blogging, and my stats show the hit. I’ve got a lot of catching up to do.

Without the boring ,”cool post” comment… I will say that i do agree with that. I have just begun to try and start to build a business that I am passionate about and find some focus. Now that I have found that niche i love, the hard part is to no give up and keeping that balance in my mind and life to not give up. thank you for the inspiration and tip about setting the simple goals or steps for the day or week. I find that when i write a things to do list, i feel like i did something when i cross off an item.

Yaro,

I couldn’t agree with you more. Too many years spend doing things I didn’t love are what motivated me to go out on my own as an entrepreneur. That and resenting time away from my family. Now I’m home when my son comes home from school. We can have a brief visit while he tells me about his day. Then I go back to work for an hour before dinner. It’s a small chuck of time each day but it’s priceless to me.

Andrea

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Honestly, I liked your articles about personal development subjects more than Steve Pavlina… There I said it. Nice work Yaro, your site was definitely a resource for me making my magazine style blog

G’day Yaro, I spent the full 4 days at the event and pulled out a list of todos for my own business. We are just past the pitching, however being a marketer, I enjoy seeing the pitch for the pitch sake.

But just getting my vision right that you mentioned in the post was a huge benefit for me.

PS. You missed seeing me with my head shaved for the Worlds Greatest Shave.

Aaron

Here in a part of the US where it’s still below freezing most days, I can’t help but be a little jealous looking at the beach pictures. Sounds like a great time.

Very enjoyable post Yaro, that resonates with me. I think of personal life and work as part of an integrated whole, not two pieces that have to be in competition