{"id":11,"date":"2008-08-19T17:51:37","date_gmt":"2008-08-19T16:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulgoodchild.net\/blog\/?p=11"},"modified":"2012-02-19T19:31:08","modified_gmt":"2012-02-19T19:31:08","slug":"what-would-excite-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulgoodchild.me\/blog\/what-would-excite-me\/","title":{"rendered":"What would excite me?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been taking a go at re-reading [AMAZON_AFF item=&#8221;4hww&#8221; text=&#8221;The Four Hour Work Week&#8221;]\u00a0only this time a little more thoroughly and with a view to take notes as I go along -there&#8217;s so much in there that it&#8217;s impossible to remember all the salient points without jotting down at least a few pointers along the way.\u00a0 One quote I took down from the book today summarizes a very important point, which I&#8217;d like to share:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The question you should be asking isn&#8217;t, &#8220;What do I want?&#8221; or &#8220;What are my goals?&#8221;, but &#8220;<em>What would excite me?<\/em>&#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The point here is that too often we ask ourselves similarly vague and indefinable questions that leave us unable to put a concrete answer to them.\u00a0 It&#8217;s much easier, though surprisingly more difficult than we might think at first, to answer the question of what would get us excited and passionate again, than it is to broadly think about what we might want.\u00a0 Ultimately, what you want is to be entertained, excited, happy, sad, and much more&#8230; not bored, idle and apathetic.\u00a0 What are the things you could be doing with your time &#8230; your life &#8230; that would fire you up; that would get you excited again about living?\u00a0 How long has it been since you&#8217;ve done something you&#8217;re truly passionate about?\u00a0 How long has it been since you&#8217;ve even thought about what makes you passionate?<\/p>\n<p>By breaking it up a little and rephrasing the question, it makes it at least a little easier to focus on what we actually want and the direction in which we want to take our lives.<\/p>\n<p>[country-filter code=&#8221;jp&#8221; display=&#8221;1&#8243;](If you clicked on the link above and you&#8217;re finding using Amazon.jp a challenge, take a quick look at my simple <a title=\"Amazon Japan \u2026 but you can\u2019t read Japanese?\" href=\"http:\/\/paulgoodchild.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/amazon-japan-but-you-cant-read-japanese\/\">how-to guide to sign-up to Amazon Japan<\/a>.)[\/country-filter]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been taking a go at re-reading [AMAZON_AFF item=&#8221;4hww&#8221; text=&#8221;The Four Hour Work Week&#8221;]\u00a0only this time a little more thoroughly and with a view to take notes as I go along -there&#8217;s so much in there that it&#8217;s impossible to remember all the salient points without jotting down at least a few pointers along the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cat-grow-your-mind","tag-personal-development"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>What would excite me? 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