What Are The 5 Senses?

When looking at the lifestyle theme, you have to know your environment and what you want it to be. One of the easiest aspects to look at is the five senses. 

Looking at those five senses gives you an idea of envisioning your future, what you experience, what you can look forward to, and how you need to set up your environment today to set you up for success tomorrow.

You may be thinking about the five senses and may have heard of them, not knowing precisely how that ties into building margin. Today we\’re going to look into this!

When you\’re building margin into life, you\’re building it for a purpose to live a lifestyle that you want to live. If you\’re there, it\’ll take building out goals. The objective is to build out a vision that you\’re looking toward to know if you\’re on the right track today or need to make adjustments.

I recently read a book called Vivid Vision. Vivid Vision goes through SMART goals, which are goals that are Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-Sensitive. 

You might have realized that you know what you want and have specific goals but haven\’t visualized them in a narrative and aligned your environment accordingly. So that\’s what we are going to discuss.

Aligning this environment will help clear some headspace to visualize what you are aiming at better, allowing for clarity in what does align, but probably more importantly, with what does not align.

So let\’s talk about your environment. What is propelling you forward, and what is holding you back? Take a look around you. You may be sitting in your office, on your couch, in a coffee shop, or even in an airport. Often we think about our environments and don\’t think about whether they affect our clarity in decision-making and, ultimately, life trajectory. 

Our environments do matter. They cause us to think a certain way, process through life from a specific lens, make decisions based on specific information, and restrict us from not delineating between perceived and actual risk.

Our environment is not only what we do for a living, our upbringings, relationships with family and friends, opportunities, setbacks we\’ve had, level of education, or how we may be involved in our communities. More specifically, our environment is our habitat. Whether we like it or not, we all have a certain environment that we create around us once we become adults. But knowing whether that environment actually helps us or holds us back can be challenging to see clearly. 

If you haven\’t heard of the five senses before, they are; sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste.

Suppose you are familiar with personality type dynamics. In that case, certain people will be more prone to having their immediate environment affect them, being that the majority of the population is considered sensing, according to Hawk Partners.

It may be difficult for the majority of the population to look at what you want your world to look like (ideally) due to being focused on what is (realistically). And that is the primary difference between those who prefer sensing over intuitive. 

Now for the sensing preference, you most likely can physically see, hear, touch, smell, and taste your realistic or current environment. Whereas if you are intuitive, you can most likely envision your ideal future world.

In building margin into life, being mindful of your needs is critical. To be well-rounded in connecting what is realistic to ideal, you will want to build that current environment out to what will need to be adjusted tomorrow or back that vision out into what needs to change today to get there. 

So if your home life, work, social, family, or physical environment impacts you, you\’ll want to consider building a plan for this.

Source: Hawk Partners

The majority of the population is more sensory-focused than intuitive. This is about three-quarters of the population. They are more focused on the here and now, the details of life, the next step, and what needs to be done today. Focusing on that component can be helpful in really defining where you want to go. Still, it may be harder to build out that vision because you are so focused on what\’s relatively close within your sphere, whereas someone who\’s more intuitive may have a more challenging time coming down to the details of what they want their future to be. 

Therefore, they will have to build out what their present world looks like to build in those five senses for those future goals.

Understanding these things in the scope of building margin into your life is essential because it will help you know what goals you need to build out and what aspect or perspective needs to be aligned to accomplish those things. That\’s why it is so important to know not only where you want to go and what you want to see your world look like but also know what the financial impact of those decisions will be and what you need to prepare for today when building out your vision and goals to hit those things!

Call To Action

Look first and foremost at whether you look at life through a lens of what is a sensor or what could be intuitive, and then from there, you\’ll be able to build out what your ideal environment looks like and how to build out your financial goals to accomplish that. 

Have a question? Our team would love to help! Email us!