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Finding Your Ikigai

Finding Your Ikigai

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The Let Go – Personal Musings: Charisse Glenn

Our outlook on life alters, with the changing of the seasons. Spring symbolizes fresh beginnings, it is light and bright moving out of the self-reflective days of winter.

Moving into summer brings vitality and expansion and with it a sense of adventure. Fall is a time to slow down after the energetic summer.

Different Seasons Of Life:

These phases carry forward as we pass into the different seasons of life. Childhood, adulthood, and mature age. With age comes wisdom, freedom, self-exploration, and sometimes a quandary of what now? There is beauty in growing older, we have more time to focus on ourselves. So I ask you:

Are you living your most extraordinary life?

Are you willing to believe that something else is possible?

Do you understand you have a choice in creating the life you have always wanted?

“The intention is to uncover what and how we can contribute to our world by determining what we are good at and what gives us pleasure.”

Alignment With Their Ikigai:

The Japanese believe in having deep satisfaction and meaning in their lives; they need to live in alignment with their ikigai (ee-key-guy), which translates to the reason for being or why I wake up in the morning. It is about defining one’s purpose, one’s mission, and reaching one’s full potential. Interestingly, it is not associated with striving for happiness.

Our ikigai changes as we grow and mature in life, so it is ongoing and lifelong to discover and realign with it. The intention is to uncover what and how we can contribute to our world by determining what we are good at and what gives us pleasure.

This sounds like a beautiful concept, yet, how do we find it?

Hidden within the answer to these questions, how do you spend your time, and where do you focus your energies; lies the secrets to finding the joy in our lives. To investigate what truly gives us satisfaction will reveal to us what our ikigai is. To see this takes some digging into the who of who we are.

Why Is It Essential To Find It?

It appears that those who actively strive for their ikigai have stronger self-esteem and feel a sense of belonging within the world. When we meet those who have found this, their very presence lends a feeling of harmony and balance.
Longevity has also been associated with those who found their purpose: engaging in something that brings them joy every day. Scientists and researchers have uncovered that knowing our sense of purpose extends our life expectancy. It also boosts our DHEA, a steroid hormone secreted by the adrenal glands, known as the miracle “longevity hormone.”
Finding your ikigai
The convergence of the following four elements is a way to identify our ikigai.

  • What is your passion? What do you love? Define it by looking at your natural gifts, your talents, and your skills.
  • What is your mission? How can you give to the world, solve a problem or add to your community? What issues in your society would you like to help resolve?
  • Also, consider this, what is your vocation? What are your talents? Where do your efforts feel effortless?
  • What is your profession? Have you been paid for what you do? Are other people being paid for this work?

“As time passed, my ikigai has changed. Now writing and speaking have become where my sense of purpose feels most satisfied.”

Where These Four Questions Intersect Is Where We Can Find Our Ikigai:

If we are able to get to the heart of these questions, we can shake things up. Discovering new ways of doing something, expanding our circle of friends, exploring new interests, or volunteering for an organization that inspires us may lead to personal insight. Most of all, understand that this is an ongoing process of growth. Nothing is set in stone. Some may find it quickly, and others may take decades. Regardless, it is the journey that is most important.

We are all creations of our minds. We have the power of change. To get there starts with the first step. For a long time, my life with horses was the intersection of the four elements. As time passed, my ikigai has changed. Now writing and speaking have become where my sense of purpose feels most satisfied.

Finding Our Ikigai Exemplifies; Do What You Love, And You’ll Never Work Another Day In Your Life:

I encourage everyone to start digging and exploring where you find your meaning and your raison d’etre. The purpose has nothing to do with the job title or task; as long as one can find a sense of fulfillment and inner gratification, we will move towards our reason for being and why we wake up in the morning.

If you can find pleasure and satisfaction in what you do and you’re good at it, congratulations you have found your ikigai.

 

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About the Author:

Charisse Glenn, Casting Director, Equestrian, and Creator of The Let Go. She is 62, gray, aging gracefully and has lots to say. Charrise is half Japanese and has the wisdom of that culture she was born into. She has been a casting director for commercials in Los Angeles for 35 years and is an equestrian having competed in 100-mile horse races around the world.

The initiative she writes, called The Let Go serves as a reminder to let go of all that no longer works in our lives, opening a pathway to happiness, love, and balance. Proudly she embraces the freedoms age provides serving as a role model to both men and women. She is a badass with a beautiful soft touch. You can find her on either her website , or follow her on The Let Go in Instagram.

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  1. Lori says:
    4 years ago

    I’ve only recently learned of Ikagai, and have so much better understanding now that I’ve read this article. Thank you, Charisse, for a beautiful and thorough explanation.

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