Station of Purpose. How to Find What Your Heart Desires and Fill Each Day with Meaning

Hector Garcia (Khirai) — a journalist and translator, who lived in Japan for 12 years and fell in love with this country with all his heart.
Francesc Miralles — a popular Spanish writer and traveler, who has lived in Japan for over 15 years.

You can live days, months, and years, drowning in dull routine, moving forward only by the inertia of obligations. But sooner or later, the question arises: what is it all for?
The Japanese believe that everyone has their own ikigai — purpose, the reason worth waking up in the mornings. In this book, Hector Garcia and Francesc Miralles invite you on an exciting journey, during which you will reconsider your life and grasp the power of all the possibilities of ikigai. On the way, you will make 35 stops, where practical exercises await you to help fill your life with meaning and bring you closer to your goals.
This book will give you a unique tool that will radically change your future and help you understand the past in order to live the present as you truly want.

On the path to your ikigai, you will learn:
• How not to miss the train of your life?
• Why you shouldn’t be afraid to change direction?
• How to find possible impossibilities?
• Why sometimes the best plan is the absence of a plan?
• How to awaken your inner child?
• Why less means more?
• How to add poetry of everyday life to your life?
• Why is it important to open the door to the unexpected?

«The authors of the book give us the opportunity to drastically change our lives, using unique tools and practices to make it the way we truly dream of. Believe me, it’s worth it!» — Alina Voynova, journalist, blogger @alina_voynova