🔴 What's Your Purpose In Life? Use The 'THREE Method' To Find Out
On January 2nd, 2023, I decided to start wtiting The Bleeding Edge, and now today’s newsletter marks the 50th edition.
First off, thank you for reading. My goal is to be impactful in your life.
In an attempt to be helpful in your life, I’m going to give you the exercise I did to discover I wanted to write a newsletter in the first place. I call it the THREE Method.
It takes less than 30 minutes to do, and you might just find a project you’d like to spend the next decade of your life on, like I want to with this newsletter :)
THREE Method
There’s three parts to the THREE Method.
Part 1: Set the stage
Part 2: Fill the page
Part 3: Find the way
Set The Stage
Take a piece of paper, and start describing your surroundings. The room, the setting, the vibe. The purpose here is to get the ideas flowing. Once you do that, start writing ANYTHING that has to do with what you’d like to do in your life.
What are you good at, what are your interests, what fuels you? Write a few paragraphs about those, again just to get the ideas flowing.
Once you’re warmed up, it’s time to move onto the main exercise.
Fill The Page
You’ll write three columns: Interests, Skillsets, & Spiritually Rewarding.
Then, spend 20 minutes jotting down bullet points in each column. You can focus one column at a time, or bounce around between columns. That’s up to you and how you work best.
I used this exact method to discover I should put my energy into the Bleeding Edge.
Here’s what I wrote down on January 2nd 2023
Find The Ways
After spending 20 minutes writing bullet points, sit back and identify what you think you should pour your energy into.
I found it useful to start with how I can weave my skillsets into my interests. Once you have an idea, ensure that the activity will be spiritually rewarding.
You can see in the picture above, there’s a section labeled “Ideas” in the bottom left. That’s where I realized the way to marry my skillsets & interests into an activity that is spiritually rewarding was to write a newsletter. I wrote, “The Bleeding Edge Substack on tech and impact. Tech use-cases and op-ed.”
Nowadays, it’s less about tech and more of an introspective journal. But that’s the beauty of this exercise. I know I have many interests, and because I laid them all out on paper and was confident in MY mission, I was comfortable not pigeon-holing myself into a niche.
I’m not in control of what I’m interested in. Interests find me. I need an outlet to share them and I’ll be sharing them here for the next 500 editions.
On most social media platforms, hitting the like button doesn’t really help the content reach more people.
But on Substack, liking the post REALLY helps.
If this post brought you value, my one ask is that you hit the like button.
If you really liked it, share the link with ONE friend.
Those two small things really help drive the mission here at The Bleeding Edge.