Clarity is king. If you can find clarity, you can go about life with a level head and a clear list of priorities.
Many problems arise due to a lack of clear priorities, direction, or intent. Combatting troubles when you don’t know what you want is a difficult game to win.
If you want a problem to go away, you need to know what you want in its place. And it doesn’t even have to be a problem that you’re trying to do away with. It can simply be that you’re trying to improve the state of anything in your life.
Without clarity staking its claim, confusion will take its place. Ambiguous goals or intentions will lead to corresponding results. As written on Zen Habits, “clarity helps us to focus, to take action, to feel energized.”
How to find clarity
Finding clarity boils down to a few main things you can apply in an overarching way in any context.
Clarify values
Think about the overall lifestyle values that you, well, value the most. What sorts of qualities do you aim to uphold and live by?
With these in mind, decisions become easier. Choosing a path simply means figuring out which options align with your values.
If your values are murky, you may lead yourself down roads you don’t want to be on. If you clarify your values from the beginning, you get a lot better at reading the maps of life. These maps will have you venturing to lands where you find joy and fulfillment.
Clarify goals
Goal-setting is a core component of advancement in life. That is if you do it with precision and make your goals measurable.
Setting a goal to get better in an area of life doesn’t hold much weight unless you can assess your progress toward your aim.
Without clarity, as you move toward bigger and better things, you won’t necessarily know when you’ve reached your goal, where you are on the path toward it, or what to do next.
When going after goals, a crucial piece is to set up subgoals to act as a ladder you can take toward where you want to be. Figuring out where the rungs and stepping stones should be along the way is a matter of knowing exactly what you want and taking time to plan out a path toward it.
Clarity serves you well in the identification and planning of goals.
Clarify intentions
If values are your standards and goals are your desires, intentions are your fuel. Get clear on your purpose.
On a larger scale, it’s important to have a general feel of your “why” in life. But in a more moment-to-moment way, your intentions shape the attitudes you take as well as the way you feel.
Finding clarity in terms of your intentions means that you can take hold of your mental patterns. When you escape from autopilot, you find agency in your life and what becomes of it.
This is an inside-out process that stems from internal clarity.
Find clarity every day
Finding clarity doesn’t have to involve revolutionary flashes of insight. Rather, it entails asking yourself questions to understand how you want to go about your life.
Overall, finding clarity is a big piece of conscious living. Remember…
- Where there is clarity, there is freedom.
- Situations seem more daunting when they’re ambiguous. Plans lead to confidence.
- Finding clarity is a habit that results from deliberate thinking. Ask questions to understand.
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