10 Actions That Make Your Entire Life
Another morning. You grab your phone before your feet even hit the floor. Notifications everywhere. Messages to reply to. News that makes your stomach tight. Someone on Instagram living their best life while you’re wondering if you’re wasting yours.
Should you switch jobs? Go back to school? Start that side hustle everyone keeps talking about? Move to a new city? Work on yourself? Figure out your passion? Find your purpose?
Your parents had it simpler—they graduated, got a job, stayed there. Done. But you? You have a thousand paths and no map. Everyone says follow your dreams, but which dream? You’ve got bills to pay, expectations to meet, and this nagging feeling that you’re supposed to be doing something more, something different, something… you don’t even know what.
Your friends seem just as confused. Some are hustling like crazy. Others are burned out. A few act like they’ve figured it out, but you can see the cracks when you look closely enough.
And the advice? It never stops. Podcasts, books, courses, coaches—everyone’s selling you the secret to clarity, success, happiness, purpose. You’ve tried some of them. Maybe they helped for a week. Then you’re back here, scrolling at midnight, wondering what you’re actually supposed to be doing with your life.
What if I told you that underneath all this complexity, all this noise, all these endless choices—there’s a pattern so simple, so fundamental, that once you see it, everything else falls into place?
What if the answer isn’t out there in the world, but right here, in what you’re already doing?
The Hidden Architecture of Being Human
Here’s what nobody tells you: You are not confused about what to do with your life. You already know. You’ve been doing it every single day since you were born.
Rich or poor. Man or woman. Any background, any country, any century. Every human being, without exception, performs the exact same set of actions. Every. Single. Day.
Not similar actions. Not variations. The exact same ones.
I call this the VS 10 Acts framework (proprietary material), and it’s about to change how you see everything—your work, your happiness, your purpose, and why you sometimes feel like something’s missing even when everything seems fine.
The 10 Acts: What You’ve Been Doing All Along
Let me reveal what you already know but have never consciously recognized:
Every day you wake up and do the following 10 actions. Not necessarily in this order, but every action you take falls into one of these:
LEARN → SEEK → ACQUIRE → SECURE → CLEAN → CONSUME → SHARE → COMMUNE → ENTERTAIN → REST
Now, here’s something crucial: while I say “not necessarily in this order,” there IS a natural sequence to these acts. And when you operate out of order—when you try to skip steps or reverse the flow—that’s exactly what creates the fog and confusion in your life.
Think about it: You can’t seek what you haven’t learned exists. You can’t acquire what you haven’t sought. You can’t secure what you haven’t acquired. The sequence matters. And we’ll come back to this.
Let me break down each one:
1. LEARN
From the moment you open your eyes, your senses are absorbing. The temperature of the room. The light coming through the window. The sounds around you. You’re not even trying—your human machine is designed to learn constantly. Every conversation, every observation, every experience is data flowing in.
2. SEEK
Once you’ve learned about your environment, something automatic happens: you seek. Your eyes scan the room for your phone. Your mind seeks the answer to a problem. Your body seeks comfort. Seeking isn’t a choice—it’s a response to learning. You discover something exists or is possible, and immediately, you begin seeking it.
3. ACQUIRE
An apple. A coffee. A new handbag. A job. Knowledge. A relationship. Once you seek, you move to acquire. This isn’t about materialism—it’s about the fundamental human action of bringing something from “out there” into your possession or experience.
Now, what about creating? We live in a world that treats creation like it’s magical, separate, special—reserved for artists and innovators. But here’s the truth that cuts through all that noise: Creating is simply acquiring what exists in your learning and seeking but isn’t available in your environment.
You learned music exists. You sought a specific sound, a specific feeling. It’s not available in your environment, so you acquire it by composing it yourself. An inventor learns about a problem. Seeks a solution. Can’t find one available, so acquires the solution by inventing it. A writer seeks a story that resonates with their exact vision. It doesn’t exist yet, so they acquire it by writing it into existence.
The artist, the builder, the entrepreneur—they’re all acquiring. They’re just acquiring from the realm of possibility rather than from what’s already physically present. The act is the same. The source is just different.
Creation isn’t magic. It’s acquisition with extra steps. And once you see this, you stop putting “creators” on a pedestal and realize: you’re doing the same act, just from a different inventory.
4. SECURE
Lock your door. Save your document. Protect your boundaries. Back up your photos. The moment you acquire something valuable, your system automatically moves to secure it. This is why you feel anxiety when something important is vulnerable—your internal programming is screaming that the “secure” action hasn’t been completed.
5. CLEAN
This is the act of discarding what you don’t want. At the most fundamental level, your body does this constantly—eliminating waste, shedding dead cells, filtering toxins. But look at the layers we’ve built: we wash our hands, delete old files, clear our minds, remove what no longer serves, organize our spaces.
And humanity keeps inventing better and better ways to clean. Soap. Detergent. Disinfectant. Gels. Specialized cleaners for every surface. Cleaning products are a multi-billion dollar industry because cleaning isn’t optional—it’s a fundamental human act. We’ve always needed to discard what we don’t want; we’ve just gotten more sophisticated about how we do it. From ancient people washing in rivers to modern enzymatic cleaners, the act remains the same. Only the tools have evolved.
6. CONSUME
Food. Water. Information. Experiences. Content. Emotions. You take in what you’ve acquired and process it. Consumption transforms external resources into internal fuel—whether that’s calories becoming energy or ideas becoming understanding.
7. SHARE
You send a text. Tell a story. Give advice. Post online. Teach someone something. Humans are wired to share—knowledge, resources, emotions, experiences. Even the hermit shares with themselves (journaling, talking aloud). This action is non-negotiable in the human design.
8. COMMUNE
This is the act of connection—and it operates at every level of your being.
At the physical level: Sexual intimacy with a partner. A hug. Holding hands. Your body connecting with another body.
At the emotional level: A deep conversation with a friend. Laughing until you cry with someone who gets you. Sharing your fears with someone who doesn’t judge. Feeling truly seen and understood.
At the spiritual level: Prayer. Meditation. A moment in nature where you feel part of something vast. The sense of belonging to something greater than yourself.
Even at the self level: Journaling. Sitting with your own thoughts. The quiet moment where you reconnect with who you actually are beneath all the noise.
Communing is the action of belonging. Of not being alone—not just physically, but existentially. It’s why solitary confinement breaks people. It’s why you can be in a room full of people and still feel desperately lonely if there’s no real connection happening.
Here’s what most people don’t realize: You can have everything else and still feel empty if you’re not communing. You can learn constantly, acquire wealth, secure your future, consume the best food, entertain yourself endlessly—but if you’re not connecting deeply with others, with yourself, with something beyond yourself—your system knows something critical is missing.
This is why the loneliness epidemic is real among people aged 15-45. We’re more “connected” than ever through technology, but we’re communing less. We’re sharing information (that’s the Share act), but we’re not truly connecting. There’s a difference between posting to an audience and communing with a person.
Commune isn’t optional. It’s not a luxury for when you have time. It’s a fundamental human act. Without it, every other success feels hollow.
9. ENTERTAIN
In early history, a person would sit and watch monkeys fighting in the trees and laugh. Or watch a snake hunting its prey. These were the entertainment events of our ancestors—observing conflict, drama, the hunt, nature’s spectacles.
We still do the exact same thing. We haven’t changed what entertains us—we’ve only changed where we watch it. Those monkeys fighting? Now it’s a nature documentary. That snake hunting? It’s on a wildlife channel. Human conflicts and dramas? They’re in movies, TV shows, sports games, reality TV. We’ve simply brought those entertaining events from the trees and grasslands into our living rooms, onto our screens.
The fundamental act of entertainment—watching conflict, observing hunts, witnessing drama, experiencing novelty and spectacle—hasn’t changed in millennia. We’ve just layered it with technology. But strip away the screen, and you’re still doing what your ancestors did: watching and being captivated by the same primal events.
10. REST
You stop. Sleep. Pause. Recover. Your system shuts down for repair and integration. Rest isn’t the absence of action—it’s the action that makes all other actions sustainable.
There is no 11th action.
Everything else you think you do—mobility, communication, working, loving, fighting, building—is simply a layer on top of one of these ten. Mobility, for example, is a step within acquiring. Communication is a method of sharing. Building is a complex sequence involving learning, seeking, acquiring, and securing.
Understanding the Natural Order (And Why Breaking It Creates Chaos)
Before we go further, let’s address something critical about these 10 Acts: they have a natural sequence, and operating out of order is what creates most of the fog in people’s lives.
You cannot seek what you haven’t learned exists. You cannot acquire what you haven’t sought. You cannot secure what you haven’t acquired first.
Think about when life feels confusing or stuck:
Seeking without Learning = You’re searching blindly, chasing trends, following what others say you should want without understanding why. This is the person jumping from opportunity to opportunity with no clarity.
Acquiring without Seeking = You’re just grabbing randomly, accumulating things or experiences without intention. This is the person who buys things they don’t need, pursues goals they don’t actually want.
Trying to Secure before Acquiring = Anxiety. You’re trying to protect something you don’t have yet. This is the person so afraid of loss they never take the risk to gain.
Consuming without Acquiring properly = You feel empty because you’re trying to consume from an empty inventory. This is the person who binges on food, content, or substances trying to fill a void.
Trying to Rest without completing the other acts = Guilt. Restlessness. You can’t truly rest because your system knows the cycle isn’t complete. This is the person who “relaxes” but can’t actually relax.
The natural flow exists for a reason. When you honor it, life feels coherent. When you violate it, everything feels off and you can’t figure out why.
This is diagnostic: When you feel foggy or stuck, ask yourself—am I trying to skip an act or do them out of sequence?
The First Revelation: How Business Really Works
Now here’s where this gets practical and powerful.
Every profession, every business, every job exists to help another person perform one or more of these 10 Acts.
Let me show you how this works in the real world with companies you know:
SEEK: Google and Search Engines
People have been seeking since the beginning of humanity. Seeking food. Seeking shelter. Seeking answers. Seeking mates. Seeking meaning. This need never went away—it’s hardwired into us. Google didn’t invent seeking; they just made it faster and more efficient. They built a multi-billion dollar empire by serving one of the 10 fundamental acts. Every search query you type is you performing the ancient act of seeking, and Google is the tool that helps you do it better.
ACQUIRE: Tesla, Trucks, and Transportation
Acquiring food. Acquiring materials. Acquiring resources. Humans have always needed to bring things from “over there” to “right here.” First we walked. Then we domesticated animals. Then we invented wheels, cars, trucks, trains, planes. Tesla isn’t selling you “the future”—they’re selling you a more efficient way to perform the ancient act of acquiring. Every truck on the highway is helping someone acquire and transport. Every vehicle ever made serves this fundamental human act. The technology changes; the act doesn’t.
CLEAN: The Soap Industry
Discarding what we don’t want has been essential since forever. Dirt. Germs. Waste. Clutter. We started with water. Then discovered soap. Then invented detergents, disinfectants, specialized cleaning gels for every purpose. Look at any supermarket cleaning aisle—dozens of products, all serving the same fundamental act: helping you discard what you don’t want more effectively. Billion-dollar companies exist because cleaning is not optional for humans. We will always need to discard, and we’ll always pay for better ways to do it.
See the pattern? The greatest businesses in history didn’t invent new human needs—they just made it easier to perform the acts we were already doing.
Teachers help people learn. Farmers help people acquire and consume. Security companies help people secure. Therapists help people clean (mentally and emotionally). Hotels help people rest. Netflix helps people entertain.
Think about your own work. Strip away the job title, the industry jargon, the company mission statement. Which of the 10 Acts are you actually helping others perform?
If you can answer that clearly, you have clarity about your purpose.
If you can’t answer it, you now know why you feel confused about your career.
And here’s the powerful part: You can evaluate any opportunity, any job, any business idea through this lens. Does it help people learn, seek, acquire, secure, clean, consume, share, commune, entertain, or rest? If yes, it has genuine value. If you’re struggling to see which act it supports, that confusion you feel isn’t random—it’s your internal system telling you something’s off.
Want to start a business? Pick one or more of these acts and become excellent at helping others perform them. Want to pivot careers? Identify which acts energize you when you help others do them. Feeling unfulfilled at work? Check if your role genuinely supports any of these acts or if you’re stuck in layers of bureaucracy that serve no fundamental human action.
This is the clarity you’ve been seeking. Not a personality test. Not a passion search. Just a simple question: Which acts am I helping others perform, and does that feel aligned?
The Second Revelation: Finding Your Fit—Nature Meets Profession
Now let’s go deeper into something more personal: you.
Understanding which acts your profession serves is only half the equation. The other half—the one that determines whether you’ll thrive or merely survive in your work—is understanding your nature.
But how do you discover your nature? Not through personality tests or abstract questions about your dreams. You discover it by looking at what you actually do, every single day.
Know Yourself Through Your Daily Acts
Take a careful look at how you perform each of the 10 Acts. This isn’t about whether you do them—you do all of them. This is about how you do them, what you choose within them, and which ones feel effortless versus forced.
Ask yourself:
What do you usually SEEK, every day?
Information? Solutions? People? Experiences? New opportunities? Stability? What is your default search mode?
What do you naturally ACQUIRE?
Knowledge? Objects? Relationships? Skills? Experiences? Do you acquire quickly and often, or slowly and selectively?
How do you SECURE?
Are you constantly checking locks, backing up files, protecting what you have? Or do you secure minimally and move on? What do you feel compelled to protect?
How do you CLEAN?
Do you clean physical spaces obsessively? Clear your mind through journaling? Organize your finances regularly? Cut toxic people out? What kind of “discarding” comes naturally to you?
What and how do you CONSUME?
Food? Information? Entertainment? Experiences? Do you consume quickly or slowly? Deeply or broadly? Do you savor or rush through?
How do you SHARE, and what?
Do you share knowledge freely? Give resources easily? Tell stories constantly? Keep things to yourself mostly? What feels natural to share?
How do you COMMUNE, and with whom?
Do you connect deeply with a few people or lightly with many? Do you commune through conversation, physical presence, shared activities? Do you need daily connection or weekly? With people, nature, yourself, something greater?
How do you ENTERTAIN yourself?
What makes you laugh? What captures your attention? Do you create entertainment or consume it? Do you need constant stimulation or occasional breaks?
How do you REST?
Do you rest through sleep, or through quiet activities? Do you need a lot of rest or very little? Can you rest easily or does your mind race?
Having a careful look at these patterns can tell you everything about yourself.
Not what you think you should be. Not what people told you to be. But what you actually are—revealed through your daily choices when nobody’s watching.
And once you see the patterns clearly, you’ll notice something: there are one or two acts you do effortlessly, joyfully, and excellently. These are your natural champion acts. This is your nature.
And once you see the patterns clearly, you’ll notice something: there are one or two acts you do effortlessly, joyfully, and excellently. These are your natural champion acts. This is your nature.
Everyone performs all 10 acts daily—that’s not optional. But each person is naturally wired to excel at specific ones. And when your profession requires you to spend most of your time helping others perform the act you’re naturally champion at, you don’t just succeed—you thrive. You feel purpose. You feel clarity.
When there’s a mismatch? Daily frustration. Burnout. That nagging feeling that something’s wrong even when everything looks right on paper.
The 10 Nature Types
Let me show you what I mean. People can be tagged by their natural strengths:
The Learner – Naturally curious, always absorbing information, researching, studying. They light up when discovering something new.
Ideal professions: Teacher, researcher, analyst, journalist, scientist
The Seeker – Always looking, exploring, searching for the next thing. They’re driven by the hunt itself.
Ideal professions: Detective, market researcher, talent scout, explorer, investigator
The Acquirer – The person in every group who’s first to run to the mall, first to pull out their phone to book tickets, first to get things done. They’re natural getters and builders.
Ideal professions: Entrepreneur, chef, real estate agent, procurement specialist, venture capitalist
The Securer – Naturally protective, cautious, detail-focused on safety and preventing loss. They sleep well when everything is locked down.
Ideal professions: Ophthalmologist (securing vision/eyes), security expert, insurance agent, cybersecurity specialist, safety inspector
The Cleaner – Naturally organized, removes clutter, fixes messes, creates order from chaos. They feel satisfaction when things are sorted.
Ideal professions: Therapist (cleaning mental/emotional messes), accountant (organizing finances), professional organizer, waste management, dispute resolver
The Consumer – Naturally enjoys experiencing, tasting, absorbing. They’re the ones who wouldn’t contribute much to planning but deeply appreciate and enjoy what’s been created.
Ideal professions: Food critic, product reviewer, quality tester, experience consultant, sommelier
The Sharer – Naturally gives, tells, distributes, spreads information and resources. They feel fulfilled when they’ve passed something along.
Ideal professions: Teacher (sharing knowledge), journalist, social media manager, distributor, philanthropist
The Communer – Naturally connects people, builds relationships, brings people together. They’re energized by deep connection.
Ideal professions: PR professional, event planner, matchmaker, community organizer, diplomat, therapist (connection-focused)
The Entertainer – Naturally playful, fun, creates joy and spectacle. They light up a room without trying.
Ideal professions: Actor, comedian, content creator, party planner, game designer, performer
The Restorer – Naturally calming, restorative, helps others recover and pause. They create space for healing.
Ideal professions: Massage therapist, spa manager, sleep consultant, retreat facilitator, hospice worker
The Mismatch: When Nature Fights Profession
Here’s where it gets real. Look at these mismatches:
An Entertainer forced into a Securer role:
Imagine someone who naturally loves parties, excitement, spontaneity, and fun becoming a bouncer at a pub. Every instinct in their body wants to join the party, create energy, make people laugh. But their job? Stand there. Be serious. Watch for threats. Secure the environment. Stop fun when it gets out of hand.
They’ll be miserable. Not because they’re bad at it—they might even be competent. But because they’re spending 40+ hours a week suppressing their nature and performing an act that drains them.
A carefree Seeker or Entertainer forced into a Securer role:
A naturally spontaneous, adventurous person becomes a doctor. Doctors spend their days securing—protecting health, preventing disease, maintaining safety. Every decision is about risk management. Every day is about caution.
This person will feel trapped. They took the job because it looked prestigious, paid well, made their parents proud. But their nature—which craves exploration, novelty, freedom—is being crushed under the weight of securing all day, every day.
An aloof Learner or Restorer forced into a Communer role:
Someone who’s naturally distant, prefers solitude, recharges alone becomes a PR professional. Their entire job is communing—connecting people, building relationships, being “on” socially for hours.
They’ll burn out fast. Not because they can’t do it, but because it’s like forcing a left-handed person to write with their right hand all day. Technically possible. Practically exhausting.
A Consumer forced into an Acquirer role:
Someone who naturally loves to enjoy, experience, and appreciate becomes an entrepreneur. Entrepreneurs must acquire constantly—building, hustling, getting deals done, making things happen.
This person will struggle. They’ll procrastinate. They’ll wonder why they can’t “just do it” like everyone says. It’s because their nature is to consume and appreciate what exists, not to acquire what doesn’t yet exist.
The Alignment: When Nature Meets Purpose
Now look at the opposite:
A natural Communer as a PR professional – They wake up excited. Meeting people isn’t draining; it’s energizing. Building relationships isn’t work; it’s play. They’re living in their nature.
A natural Securer as an ophthalmologist – Every day they’re protecting something precious (vision). Every patient secured is a win. They sleep well knowing they spent the day doing what they’re wired to do.
A natural Acquirer as a chef – They’re constantly acquiring new cuisines, new techniques, new ingredients, and then helping others acquire food experiences they couldn’t access themselves. Perfect match.
A natural Restorer as a massage therapist – They leave work fulfilled, not drained, because helping others rest and recover IS their nature.
The Clarity Question
So here’s your diagnostic tool for career clarity:
Which of the 10 acts are you naturally champion at?
Not which ones you can do—you can do all of them. Which ones do you do effortlessly? Which ones energize you rather than drain you? Which ones make you feel like you’re being yourself rather than playing a role?
Then ask: Does my current profession require me to spend most of my time helping others perform that act?
If yes—you’ve found alignment. Stay there. Double down. You’re in your lane.
If no—you now know why you feel off. You’re competent, maybe even successful, but something feels wrong. It’s not imposter syndrome. It’s not lack of gratitude. It’s a fundamental mismatch between your nature and what you’re doing 40+ hours a week.
This is the career clarity that personality tests and passion exercises can’t give you. Because it’s not about finding what you “love” in some abstract sense. It’s about aligning what you naturally do with what you’re paid to help others do.
When those match, work doesn’t feel like work. It feels like purpose.
The Third Revelation: The Happiness Formula Hidden in Plain Sight
We’ve all heard it: “Rich people aren’t necessarily happy.”
We nod. We agree. But do we understand why?
Here’s the answer the VS 10 Acts framework reveals: Happiness is not about having everything. Happiness is about doing everything—all 10 Acts, every day.
Your internal system knows when you’re missing one.
Think about it. You’ve had days where you:
- Made money but didn’t commune with anyone (lonely)
- Consumed endlessly but didn’t share or acquire anything meaningful (empty)
- Worked hard but didn’t rest (burned out)
- Stayed safe but didn’t seek or acquire anything new (stagnant)
- Entertained yourself but didn’t learn or grow (unfulfilled)
That feeling? That’s your system alerting you: “We’re not running the full program. Something’s missing.”
The wealthy person who has secured everything but doesn’t commune deeply with others feels the void. The busy professional who learns and acquires constantly but never rests faces collapse. The retired person who rests and consumes but doesn’t seek or acquire feels purposeless.
Living fully means cycling through all 10 Acts daily—or at minimum, weekly.
Not perfectly. Not in equal measure. But touching each one. Keeping the whole system engaged.
When you learn something new, seek a goal, acquire what you need, secure what matters, clean your space and mind, consume nourishment, share your gifts, commune with others, entertain your spirit, and rest your body—you’re not just surviving. You’re living.
And your system knows the difference.
The Practical Application: Your Life, Reimagined
So what do you do with this clarity?
Start with awareness. For one week, simply notice your 10 Acts. Don’t judge. Don’t change anything yet. Just observe: Which acts do you naturally do every day? Which ones are you skipping?
You’ll likely discover patterns:
- “I’m always learning and acquiring, but I never rest properly.”
- “I commune and share constantly, but I’ve stopped seeking anything new.”
- “I secure everything out of fear, but I’m not really consuming or enjoying life.”
Then, design your days intentionally. Not rigidly—life isn’t a checklist. But consciously. If you notice you haven’t communed with anyone meaningful in days, send that text. If you realize you’ve consumed endless content but haven’t shared or acquired anything, write something, teach someone, contribute.
Evaluate your big decisions through this lens. That job offer—will it allow you to perform all 10 Acts, or will it demand you sacrifice rest, communion, or entertainment? That relationship—does this person support your full range of acts, or do they require you to suppress some?
And most importantly: Stop chasing complexity. You don’t need a more complicated life. You don’t need more options, more paths, more possibilities. You need to honor the simple, elegant design you already are.
The Clarity You’ve Been Missing
The world will keep offering you noise. More advice. More paths. More gurus. More solutions to problems you don’t actually have.
But you now have something they can’t sell you: a framework that’s true whether you’re 15 or 45, whether you’re broke or wealthy, whether you’re lost or found.
You are a human being designed to perform 10 Acts. Every day. On repeat.
When you honor all of them, you feel whole. When you miss some, you feel the absence. When you help others perform them, you build value. When you understand them, you have clarity.
This isn’t the end of your journey. It’s the beginning of moving through the world with your eyes open, recognizing the simple truth beneath all the complexity.
You’re not lost. You never were.
You just forgot what you already knew.
Now you remember.
The VS 10 Acts framework is proprietary material. Use this clarity wisely. Live each act fully. Watch your life transform.