You wake up and feel there's something missing in your life. You're not sure what. But you can feel the void in your life. You get up to go to work. You work because of the pay, not because it brings you joy. Days drag on, you're low energy, and unhappy. Maybe you're anxious or depressed, or find yourself in tears. You constantly think “there has to be to my life more than this” or “what am I doing with my life?" There's no magical cure that can remedy this, but there is a solution. The happiest and most successful people have discovered this solution: the answer is to find your life’s purpose. Identifying your inner compass will transform your life completely. It could lead you in a new direction, give you more energy, the days will seem to fly by because you're spending time on your goals and purpose. You will feel rejuvenated. Clearer. Happier. Whole. But finding your life purpose is a daunting and highly convoluted task. Most seminars and courses that focus on this topic charge up to $10,000, but they don't leave you with an action plan. Nothing will change and you won't see any differences. In Life Hacker Club, we focus on actionable and practical hacks that are simple, effective, and easy. Our format makes things highly digestible because the more complex and vague tips are difficult to implement.

1. 🎯NO BS ACTIONABLE
METHODS TO FIND
YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE
Meetup #8
Tues Dec 5th 2017

2. Get a copy of today’s slides emailed to you go to http://bit.ly/lhc6

3. Format
▪ 5:30-6:00 - Meet & Greet
▪ 6:00-6:25 - Welcome Intro & Stories
▪ 6:25-7:00 - SPEAKER #1: Vance Lee
▪ 7:00-7:15 - Refreshment break
▪ 7:15-7:45 - SPEAKER #2: Boris Berjan
▪ 745-8:00 - Closing and announcements

4. Sharky Liu
Lecturer at the University of Toronto
Founder & Speaker for the Dental Marketing Conference
CEO of DentistFind – Dental Marketing Management Tech
Company
Founder & Lead Designer for JUZD Streetwear – Got into Holt
Renfrew

5. Why
Life Hacker Club

7. How to Change Your Life
MOTIVATION
KNOWLEDGE
ACTION
Seminars, Conferences, Books
Videos, Movies
Articles, Books, Courses
Coach, ???
FAILURE
FEEDBACK

8. Stories

9. This Event Will
Change Your Life
- Big or Small

11. Life Hack:
Fight to Link
Everything to Your
Goals
-Dan Kenndy
Time Management for Entrepreneurs Pg. 71

12. Vance Lee
Entrepreneur, digital nomad, hippie and
meditation junkie
● Founder, StudyMonkey - Canada’s first notes
exchange platform for university students
● Founder, CASA Charity Fashion Show - raised over
$80,000 for Canadian Cancer Society and Free the
Children
● Founder, Morning Owl Creative Video Agency
● Founder, ICOSA Brewhouse - top 1% all time
Kickstarter project of all time
● Passionate about: nature, philosophy, travel,
photography

13. Year in review
● Launched my first
crowdfunding campaign -
raised $850,000 on
Kickstarter and Indiegogo
● Travelled while working for
3 months this year
● Most personal growth and
progress

14. It hasn’t always been this way
The eternal struggle
- Lack of direction, going through the motions
- “Doing” a lot but not feeling happy or fulfilled

15. Our time together
Who am I here as?
Goal today
- Walk away with at least 1 piece of advice that will have a
lasting impact on your life

16. My journey of self discovery
- Started in 2008
- Read many books
- Attended seminars, courses
- Learned new things: meditation, photography
- Explored passions: travel
- Discovered greater purpose

17. GRATITUDE

18. Gratitude ->
Lasting
happiness and
fulfillment

19. Gratitude
- Defined: A thankful appreciation for what you have in your
life.
- Contrast with:
- Being focused on what you WANT or DON’T have

20. Gratitude
Why is this a big deal?
- “I will be happy when….” syndrome (affects ambitious
people the most!)

21. Gratitude
Hedonic adaptation
Observed tendency of humans to
quickly return to a relatively stable
level of happiness despite major
positive or negative events or life
changes.

22. Gratitude
- So how can we be happier?

23. [HACK]
Use gratitude to turn up
your happiness thermostat.

24. Gratitude
Why is this a big deal?
- Positive feedback loop: Looking for gratitude -> more awareness ->
finding more gratitude -> more happiness

25. [HACK]
The day-to-day fuel for your happiness:
Daily Gratitude Journal

26. Gratitude
Example Entry: December 1, 2017
- Friendly staff at the condo in the morning always smiling
- Got a haircut and feeling fresh
- It was warm enough to bike during the day and had a nice ride
- Johnny made me lunch
- Mom called me at night and had a good conversation
- Vince came over to help with listing audit
- Hired Ashley as our new VA
- Was hard on Vince and got into some bickering but learned that I need to ask
more questions instead of making assumptions

27. Gratitude
Daily Gratitude Journal
- Once a day routine
- Write down (at least) 5 things I’m grateful for
- Can be big or small
- Does not have to be only “positive” things

28. PURPOSE

29. Purpose
The P word
- Where are you at?
- Clear about what your purpose is. Actively exploring or taking actions towards it.
- Have an idea about what your purpose is. Considered it or explored it a little.
- Haven’t really considered it or don’t have one.
- The magic pill

30. Purpose
Let’s break it down
- Dictionary definition: the reason for which something is done or created or
exists.

31. Purpose
Greater purpose
- AKA. life purpose, calling, life’s why, reason for existing
- Defined: a purpose or vision that serves a larger cause (ie. someone or
something one other than yourself)

32. Purpose
Why do you care?
- My road to becoming a nomad
- Your purpose becomes your compass
- Your purpose empowers and motivates you

33. Purpose
Misconceptions
- A purpose has to be big (they come in all shapes and sizes)
- You have one single purpose (you’ll likely have more than one)
- You will always have the same purpose (it’s likely to change over time and
evolve as you evolve)

34. [HACK]
Curiosity is your key to
unlocking your purpose

35. Purpose
Curiosities -> Passions -> Purpose
1. Make a list of 20 things you’re curious about
2. Look at the list and see where 3 or more curiosities
intersect - these will be your passions.
3. Make a list of 15 large problems that you want to solve in
the world - the intersection of your passions that solves these
problems will be your purpose.

36. [HACK]
Kaizen principle:
Small incremental actions
make a big difference

37. 15 minute break

39. Boris Berjan
@borisberjan (instagram)
How Failure Taught Me Success

40. My Failures
• Tried to sell water bottles at the beach – detained by security
• Tried to setup infrastructure to sell photocopied textbooks in university – my now wonderful girlfriend
showed me that it wasn’t right (thanks babe!)
• Did numerous surveys and made business plans to start a green smoothie shop – never launched
• Built up an online marketing agency – lost it twice
• Started a supplement company and as it picked up traction, I threw it to the curb on a handshake deal to
move across the country
• Got into bed with a con artist and lost everything I ever had + $19,000 in debt + $12,000 in OSAP + no job
• Started consulting businesses with $/5day marketing budgets … got just a bit annoyed.
• Spent 7 months on a new product invention only to raise $2000 out of $85,000 on kickstarter (this was
with me calling in every favor I could think)

41. Soooo, Have things
improved or did Sharky
con us out of $$$?
• Where am I now?
• Head of Digital Marketing For A Tech Startup (Smart Home Technology)
• Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) For A Skincare Startup
• CEO & President Of A E-commerce business
Note: I have managed over 200 small business accounts (consulting on media spend, marketing
angles/creatives, business decisions etc)

42. The Moment I Signed The Papers

43. The 15 year old kid driving me up the
mountain.

44. The Two Word Instructions.

45. The Adrenaline Rush.

46. Not Quite Right.

47. The Most Important Question.

48. Cliff Notes
The moment I signed the Papers = The jump into the unknown (when you do, it’s the age old
rule – most people quite the step before they make it. Practically speaking – double down on
trusting that it will take time (a fleeting commodity in our insta-gratified world). Make sure you
adhere to a long term vision.
The 15 year old driving you up the mountain = No momentum and everything is new. Easy
to want to quite at this point. When things get hard, have tools that help you manage emotions
– study and practice emotional control and intelligence.
The two word instructions = Exemplifies that you don’t know what you don’t know, so you
have to follow two philosophies at once – listen and learn from others (it’s difficult to do this
amazingly well) + learn on your own.
The Adrenaline Rush = Once you taste success, multiple things will break, so you will have to
figure it out quickly. To hack this, grow your network/support system. Get as many third
perspectives as possible.
Not Quite Right = Grounded more streamlined success will come, yet it won’t be without
turbulence. Don’t assume it’s in the bag until “the money hit’s the bank” – I made this mistake
too many times. Also when it does, it might not be as expected.

49. Announcements
Life Hacker Club

50. Private Facebook Group
▪ Invite Only
▪ Posting of the slides and notes
▪ http://Facebook.com/clublifehacker

52. Opportunities
▪ Speaker/Presenter Search and Liason
▪ Writing Content / Post Event Summary
▪ Social media Management
▪ Photography
▪ Host and MC
▪ Attendance Manager
▪ Facebook Live
▪ Note taking

53. Life Hacker Club Committee
▪ Do things you love
▪ Meet new friends – build your network of motivated and intelligent people
▪ Learn new skills
▪ Add to your resume
▪ The most valuable thing….

54. Committee Members
▪ Sharky Liu – Organizer
▪ Charlene Chu – Co-Organizer
▪ Theresa Gomes - Logistics guru
▪ Sean DeSouza - Speaker outreach
▪ Meagan Lyons - Logistics, and Speaker outreach
▪ Kriss Petrounov – Social Events
▪ Farhad Far - Photographer

55. Next Workshops:
Tues Jan 9 2018 - ACHIEVE YOUR 2018 GOALS BY USING
SUBCONSCIOUS HABITS
Tues Feb 6 2018 - TOP 11 COMMUNICATION, CONVERSATION
AND NETWORKING HACKS
Tues Mar 13 2018 - SOCIAL MEDIA SECRETS TO GROW YOUR
BUSINESS AND PERSONAL BRAND

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