A few years ago, one of my teachers gave us a Holiday Pep Talk before we left class and put forth a few pieces of information that I never forgot.
One piece however, truly stuck out to me.
He told us that we must "accept our condition."
What did he really mean?
He meant that you should understand exactly where you are in life and know why you got there.
To take it a few steps further, it means that you truly have to look into all areas of your life and understand why they are how they are - relationships, money, job, body etc.
Not as you want them to be.
The reason why you need to look at where you are now is...
It becomes the foundation for the life that you want to build.
Going through this process allows you to step right into building a new life without trying to escape your old one.
If you can stop avoiding the past, come to terms with it, and then start focusing on moving forward...that's how you start building a new life completely. But if you don't clean up your past you are asking for serious trouble.
So how do you actually go through the process of auditing your life?
My favorite way of doing this is getting on a huge chalkboard and drawing the whole thing out in terms of, "Where am I now?"
When you do that it gives you a very clear and visual experience of what exactly is going on in your life. Further, it helps you organize everything...it's not just all floating around in your head.
You give yourself the chance to really see the landscape and then start creating your future one step at a time.
The other piece of this puzzle is to envision what is in the future for you and to work backwards from there.
If you do this piece by piece you can create milestones for yourself to build that battle plan of yours.
What's the last piece of all of this? Write down everything you need to know and everything you have to engage in to accomplish this end goal.
That what you need to know list should be a hell of a lot longer than the what you know list.
So make sure you are really investing time into understanding what skills, resources, and competencies that you need to bring into your life...
Know that this is only the beginning and the best is coming your way.
This process will do you wonders.
One piece however, truly stuck out to me.
He told us that we must "accept our condition."
What did he really mean?
He meant that you should understand exactly where you are in life and know why you got there.
To take it a few steps further, it means that you truly have to look into all areas of your life and understand why they are how they are - relationships, money, job, body etc.
Not as you want them to be.
The reason why you need to look at where you are now is...
It becomes the foundation for the life that you want to build.
Going through this process allows you to step right into building a new life without trying to escape your old one.
If you can stop avoiding the past, come to terms with it, and then start focusing on moving forward...that's how you start building a new life completely. But if you don't clean up your past you are asking for serious trouble.
So how do you actually go through the process of auditing your life?
My favorite way of doing this is getting on a huge chalkboard and drawing the whole thing out in terms of, "Where am I now?"
When you do that it gives you a very clear and visual experience of what exactly is going on in your life. Further, it helps you organize everything...it's not just all floating around in your head.
You give yourself the chance to really see the landscape and then start creating your future one step at a time.
The other piece of this puzzle is to envision what is in the future for you and to work backwards from there.
If you do this piece by piece you can create milestones for yourself to build that battle plan of yours.
What's the last piece of all of this? Write down everything you need to know and everything you have to engage in to accomplish this end goal.
That what you need to know list should be a hell of a lot longer than the what you know list.
So make sure you are really investing time into understanding what skills, resources, and competencies that you need to bring into your life...
Know that this is only the beginning and the best is coming your way.
This process will do you wonders.
About the Author:
Evan Sanders is a professional life coach at AYKME coaching. Dive into these great Motivational Quotes For Work http://thewordsofencouragement.com/motivational-quotes-for-work/ or these Self Confidence Quotes http://thewordsofencouragement.com/self-confidence-quotes/ to get some motivation to move forward!
No comments:
Post a Comment