There’s always 3 ways to live life. Force, flux, and flow. How are you living your life right now? Are you creating more success effortlessly in flow, or are you forcing everything to happen? Are you in flux? This article will walk you through on how to get clarity in life.

If you want better results for your life, you have to change your behavior. And if you want to change your behavior, you have to change your beliefs. 

That’s why it’s important for you to identify those limiting beliefs or stories that’s holding you back. Ask yourself, “Do you own the story or does the story own you? What do you have to believe to get the results you’ve created in your life right now?”

When something happens in life, when people go through brick walls, they stop pursuing their dreams. They stop working for what they want. And then they told the story about what happened and they started owning that story. Why? Because it lets them justify the reasons why they can’t move forward in life.

That’s what happens when people aren’t clear about what they want in life. Here are the 5 steps on how to get clarity in life.

Step 1: Clarify Where You Are Right Now

The first step on how to get clarity in your life is to clarify where you are right now. In each aspect of your life, where are you? With your health, wealth, your relationship, your mindset, your spirituality? Ask yourself, “On a scale of 1-10, where would you say you’re at each aspect of your life?”

Without knowing where you are right now, you can’t move forward. You may be deluding yourself of believing that you’re doing well in life. But once you have a check up from the neck up, you’ll realize that you’re not.

This is one of the reasons why you must clarify where you are. It’s one of the most important steps in getting clarity in life.

Step 2: Clarify What You Want

Once you’ve clarified where you’re at, the next thing you must do is to clarify what you want. What do you desire the most? List down the things in life that you want to be, do or have. Ask yourself these questions:

• What would it look like to have those things?
• How would it feel once you have them?
• What would you hear and experience in your life when you get these things?

You have to break it down at every aspect of your life. Take action and immerse yourself in activities as well to explore new things you might not know. You have to figure out what you really want to be able to prepare the steps you need to achieve it.

Without knowing where you’re going, it’s impossible to get there.

Step 3: Clarify Why You Want It

When setting goals, most people forget to clarify why they want what they want. In fact, most goal setting systems you’ll see out there don’t even include this. That’s the reason why they fail big time!

List all the reasons why you want your goals. Who would you become in this process of achieving it? Whose life would it change? How will your life change and how will getting your goals change the lives of people you love?

Once you identify that “WHY,” it will give you the momentum and the motivation to get up. You’ll change from motivation to inspiration and start getting excited for your everyday life. You have to understand everything that’s happening to your life right now to know what really is your motive or purpose.

Step 4: Clarify The How

Now that you know where you’re starting from and where you’re going, it’s easier to create the roadmap. Especially now that you understand WHY you want what you want. These steps are important so you can know how to get clarity in life.

As the old adage goes, “One you know the ‘WHY,’ the ‘HOW’ will appear.” That’s where you start building a plan. List the steps you must take and ask opinions from your mentors on what you need to do.

One of the best ways to achieve your goals faster is to get a mentor or model someone who’s done what you want to do. It would still take you time to achieve your goals, but it will let you compress decades into days.

Step 5: Clarify Your Own Progress

What are the skills and experiences you want to develop? What will you do to improve yourself?

You can’t sit back and think that your results are that great if they’re really not. And you won’t know if what you’re doing is working if you’re not measuring.

Peter Drucker once said, “You can’t manage what you don’t measure.” I agree. That’s why you need to take time-outs to check your progress. If possible, get outside feedback from people who have gone to where you want to go.

You have to clarify your progress every week – what’s working, not working, and what you can do differently. What you should stop, start, and maintain. And the only way to make it efficient, is to get a mentor that will hold you accountable. Someone who’s going to tell you if you’re doing something wrong or good.

Final Thoughts On How To Get Clarity In Life

These are the 5 steps on how to get clarity in life. Without clarity, you’ll have chaos, confusion, and conflict in your life. That’s going to stop you from moving forward. Without clarity, people don’t act because they are afraid of making mistakes. And if you don’t act, you won’t move forward. 

All creation comes from confidence. Confidence comes from competence. And competence comes from choices in doing the work. And all of that comes from clarity. Once you have clarity, you will create the life you truly desire and deserve.

What areas of your life do you need clarity from? Share your thoughts on the comment below!