This is a Mindvalley trailer-style conversation (hosted by Vishen Lakhiani) with Jon and Missy Butcher about designing an "extraordinary life." Jon emphasizes the need for a clear life vision as a decision-making North Star; Missy highlights discovering personal values and authenticity; Vishen endorses Lifebook as a comprehensive, business-plan-like system for designing and achieving a desired life.
Chapters
If your goal is to create an extraordinary life that works at a high level in every important area, the first thing you have to know is what that looks like. Because you will never achieve that unless you know what it is that you're moving toward.
What makes John and Missy Butcher so unique is that they are consciously competent. They've created an incredible life. A life that is so magnificent, it almost seems as if their life is blessed by with magic. But what makes them incredible teachers is that they are consciously competent of how they created this life.
A lot of people are so busy with what happened in their lives. They're so busy on the treadmill of life. Most people out there are overwhelmed and exhausted. They literally don't have the time. Well, actually they do. They don't take the time to really sit down and think through what their happiness and their fulfillment require. To understand the vision of the person you want to become and the life you want to live is because without it, you don't have a decision making framework to guide your actions. If you have a life vision and you know exactly where you want to take your life, that's your North Star. Every decision you make, every action you take has to line up with that North Star.
The first step in finding out what your life vision is is discovering who you are. What are your own values and your own beliefs and your own driving forces. If you can figure that out, if you have that and you know what that is, that can help you build your life vision and then you know where you're going and then you won't get knocked off course. When you go out into society and say, hey, this is me. There's always a rub when you show up as your authentic self.
If there is one thing you can learn in the world, it is lifebook. Because lifebook will change the game for your entire life. It is literally the business plan that is missing from every individual's life. Think about it for a moment. When you start a business, you create a business plan, but your life should have such a plan. Lifebook is that detailed, comprehensive vision for the life you want to lead and how you are going to get to that vision. It is certainly the most powerful personal growth program I went through and I did it 10 years ago and it has changed my life radically.
If you want all that stuff you believe all that stuff, what are you going to do in your life today to make that a reality and make that your real life?
