January 2025
Beginner to intermediate
272 pages
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English
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CHAPTER 2Goals, Dreams, and Purpose: Craft Your Goals with the WOOP Method
Why do you wake up in the morning? No, seriously. What does a meaningful life look like to you? Where are you? How do you pay your bills? No one can decide what your goals are for your life, apart from you. In this chapter, we're going to talk about a meaningful life by setting goals and taking the next steps to get there. No big deal, right? Just your life.
You have agency in this life, and you don't need to take my word for it. In a research study of 2,872 pairs of twins,1 researchers found that longevity of life is “only moderately heritable.” In plain language, the study “established that only about 20% of how long the average person lives is dictated by our genes, whereas the other 80% is dictated by our lifestyle,” writes Buettner of the acclaimed Blue Zones research, books, and documentary.2
Blue Zones: 9 Lifestyle Habits for Living Long
In the Blue Zones research, nine lifestyle habits were documented from the places in the world with the largest populations of people who live the longest. The “Blue Zones Power 9”3 include:
- Move Naturally
- Purpose
- Downshift
- 80% Rule
- Plant Slant
- Wine @ 5
- Belong
- Loved Ones First
- Right Tribe4
Several of these are about exercise and what you eat and drink.5 Since we're here to talk about your career and not your wine and plant consumption, let's focus on Purpose. Purpose is all about how we spend our lives. Large populations of people over the age of 100 were ...
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