Ikigai & Kaizen: The Japanese Strategy to Achieve Personal Happiness and Professional Success (How to set goals, stop procrastinating, be more productive, build good habits, focus, & thrive)

by Anthony Raymond

The term is comparable to the adopted French phrases “raison d’etre” (your “reason for existence”) or “joie de vivre” (your “zest for life”). More colloquially, one’s Ikigai is often described as: My reason to get out of bed in the morning.