We're here at step five. It's the last step, I encourage you and applaud you for getting this far throughout the course, I know that it's an exercise that can add a lot of value to your life, because it's definitely added a lot of value to mine. It's brought a lot of clarity, it's helped me achieve a lot of things that I never thought possible. And just in general, it makes me feel like I have a lot of motion, motivation to move forward with the things that I've determined that are important to me. And they can be simple, or they can be over the top, big, hairy, audacious goals, whatever it is to you. The Step five is what's going to ensure that you keep moving forward.
And Step five is maintenance. I know maintenance is not a sexy term, it's not something that really you know, brings about the most inspiration, but maintenance, the daily routines, the daily looking after thing, that's what keeps stuff going. maintenance is all about scheduling habits. So maybe you don't necessarily need to make it so cut and dry. You don't need to write something into the calendar but you might need a reminder that you need to schedule in the maintenance portion. And what do I mean by that?
When I'm talking about a recipe or creation, I'm talking about making yourself giving yourself permission to take time and reflect on the work that you've been doing. Could be five minutes could be a day, you determine that, but scheduling in the habit save potentially, every month, having a peek going back to that creation, going back to that board that you've created for yourself, looking at it and saying, right, am I doing this? Am I taking action? What are the things that I'm grateful for? What were the challenges that I've had? Because when you can do that, now you're becoming more aware of is it working?
Because maybe it's not the right thing for you? Maybe there's something that needs to tweak. Maybe there's something a little adjustment that you need to make, or maybe what's happened to us sometimes we have written down something to a particular particular ingredient, and you know what, it no longer applies Thought I wanted to do this. But it turns out I don't. I wanted to volunteer for this organization. But then when I started doing it, I actually lost all my inspiration.
It's not what I thought it was gonna be. So do I need to step back and redress and say, You know what, no, I tested it, it didn't work, I'm not into it, I need to move on to something else. And that's part of the maintenance, because it's not enough to organize your goals and get them already, you need to maintain that you need to keep investing into it. And it doesn't have to be a lot, it can just be a little bit. So I encourage you to look through those ingredients. Again, the seven ingredients, which are body, mind, family, social work, stuff, and giving back.
And I don't think we mentioned this in the previous videos, and somebody has commented in our live workshops before that, how can we didn't have an ingredient that was spiritual or religious, and for us that really falls under the mind category. So if you feel that deserves its own little salt shaker ingredient, we encourage you to add that in. That's part of that maintenance and tweaking, you've recognized that that portion that spiritual pneus, that religion that's so important to you needs to have its own unique category. Go ahead and add that in. I just want to let you know, we kind of have that fall undermined. And we dive a lot further into the different types of ingredients in terms of text in our book, a recipe for an extraordinary life, organization, minimalism and self care.
That book is something for me, I'm a tactile person, I like to I like to hold a book, I like to be able to read it and make notes on the pages. That's why we created that hardcover book. We also have an E book, an electronic version for those of you who have really updated yourself, and you've used that. But this course is really just about teaching you how you can build a creation yourself. So if you followed along, if you've done these exercises, I hope you feel confident in the fact that you Now that you've learned these things, maybe you need to review a couple times each time you do it. But really, it's so simplistic.
And you need nothing more than yourself to be in a good state, and also a piece of paper and a pen to be able to write down those seven ingredients. And then write down the things that you want to achieve about them and write how you're feeling about them. And this is going to set you on a nice course for being able to get to where it is that you want to go. And I know it's nice to fly by the seat of your pants and be spontaneous. And you can still have all of that. But isn't it nice to sometimes know that if you want to do something crazy and spontaneous, you kind of have an idea of what that might be, whether it be going to Mexico and learning how to kite surf, like Amelia and I have always wanted to do and we just did this last year.
It was something that we never thought we would do. And then all of a sudden, we thought we're going to take advantage of this. We're taking action. We're going to go and do this. And we learned how to kite surf. So something that's just out of the ordinary can still occur when you plan behind it, give yourself a testing period.
As I said before, when building your creation, oftentimes, we start to feel a little bit down a little bit lost, maybe not knowing where we want to go. And that's a really good indicator that it's time to revisit our creation and start over again. So that's part of that testing period. And I would say that it lasts about 90 days, the creation, you're changing, you're evolving, if you're moving forward, if you're reflecting and you're realizing these things don't apply. But these things still do that that testing period time. So make sure you're aware that you're giving yourself time to reflect on that you're testing out new ideas, and you're testing out a new system that may or may not work for you.
And I want to share a quote quote by Pablo Picasso, me the meaning of life is to find your gift, and the purpose of life is to give it away. And isn't that lovely? To find what it is that is your purpose, and give it away as much as you can. We'll see you in the next video.