Personal Narrative: How Will You Measure Your Life

We often forget our priority in our life while we are doing our job. Priority is important for our lives, which keep us to maintain the relationship with family members, religious faith, personal time, and culture. The journal named, "How Will You Measure Your Life?" in Harvard Business Review, which is written by Dr. Clayton Christensen, alert about unclear positioning priorities between our jobs and our personal lives. The article mainly emphasized on creating a strategy, building a purpose, allocating resources, creating a culture, avoiding the marginal costs mistake, remembering the importance of humility, and choosing the right yardstick. This essay will only emphasize on creating a strategy in life based on the journal. There are many ways of creating a strategy, but this essay will focus on having the motto, making short-term and long-term goals, and itemizing work and personal life to build better purpose in our lives. First of all, one of the ways to create a strategy is having a clear motto. I hardly thought about my motto when I started to study in Thailand. As I moved to Thailand alone when I was 16 years old, I had many troubles with people around me because of a different culture. I also got confused about myself and lost what I am living for. However, I started to learn how to
Achieving short-term goals is important because it reminds us about our long-term goals. We somehow forget our personal goals and focus on problems we are facing while we are working. In my opinion, achieving short-term goals lead to achieving long-term goals and these keep remind us about the purpose of our lives. Also, if our purpose of life is clear, then we would not too much be influenced by working conditions. In other words, having clear goals in our lives can save time from wasting our time and effort from miscellaneous between working and personal life and allow us to use our time