We can make clear decisions about how we conduct our lives. We either make a decision to drift or make a decision to design our own lives, creating the lives we wish to live.
It is really important to develop a sense that our lives now are important and that there is no time to wait. There is no time to wait. Also there is no point in waiting. Do what is required today and tomorrow will look after itself. Explore the depth of how we truly want our lives to be, I mean truly to be. Maybe you have decided that it is time to revolutionise your life. I wonder if this was your decision what shape and form this would take. What it is about your life specifically, that you would want to change? Revolutionising your life means making some radical changes. Radical changes as defined and determined by you.
When I decided to give up full time, permanent, supposedly secure employment to work as a freelance Learning and Development Consultant some years ago, a number of people experienced my decision with a great deal of fear and endeavoured to project that fear on to me with defeatist questions, asked in such defeatist tones. Won't you miss getting a regular salary? How are you going to live? What will you do for money? I have to say that I did not have any of these fears for myself, because I knew that I would do what I have always done and that is to find a way to make my life work for me, which I did and still do.
There are many stories of young people visiting Careers Advisors who suggested that a career at the local supermarket was perhaps the option they ought to pursue as opposed to the one that they set themselves. There is nothing wrong with pursuing a career at the local supermarket if that is what you choose to do and have a look at Bal's story to see how her life has progressed. Baroness Scotland who subsequently became the first Black woman QC in Britain was advised by her Careers Adviser that she was setting her sights a bit high when she said she wanted to be a lawyer. These are lifelong lessons €" that can either make you or break you.
Things may not be working for you the way they are currently showing up in your life. I know one of my life lessons, constantly challenging myself to take the next steps, in business for example, stepping outside of my comfort zone and looking seriously at some business propositions that have come my way. Standing outside of my fear 100% of the time and this might seem like a tall order and for me this is what revolutionising my life looks like. Releasing me from the opinions of others, particularly when those opinions are of the `negative' `cannot do' `cannot be' `who do you think you are?' variety.
In what ways might you need to revolutionise your own life? The answer is near and sometimes far. It is an ongoing process of discovery. It is worth examining our belief and value systems that help to drive our lives. What is important to you and why? Are your values currently in line with the way that you are living your life? Is there any conflict? If there is, how will you change those conflicts? What do you need to do now to be in complete alignment with your values?
In life we need to take charge and maintain power over ourselves and not give that power away. This means taking charge over our emotions and our thought processes ensuring that we are not allowing ourselves to be defined by others. It means taking charge over the direction of our lives. It means directing our energies and focus to areas that we believe will make a difference to ourselves and others. Spending time in our lives doing something that will exist beyond us €" creating a legacy can ensure longevity for something worthwhile. Our life is about creating a life that we believe is worth living. There are too many of us living an existence, for example in jobs that we do not really want to be doing. In essence, living a life that is unfulfilled.
Is it possible for everyone to live the life they wish to lead at least in part? I believe it is. I believe it is entirely possible that even if people do not feel wholly content at work, then it is possible at least to make parts of the job enjoyable, if this is not possible then maybe it is time to ask some serious questions about whether that is the right job or not. Notwithstanding this, fulfilment can come from other areas of life such as charitable work. The point here is to find the work that most satisfies your spirit and do it. Here we get the opportunity to create the life that we consider is worth living.
The human potential is vast: way, way, way beyond anyone's imaginings €" way beyond and then some more. The route to this vastness is not always very clearly laid out and yet in the search, in stepping forward, that clarity comes ever closer. What is clear though is that in sitting and looking at a path, without taking action, nothing will change. We can view the world as we want it to be and create the conditions to make it so. See some of the stories scattered throughout this book and you will see this is exactly what many of the contributors have done. I'm not saying it's always easy, I am saying however that you'll get a sense from some of the stories what it actually takes to get to where you want to be. t takes work and sometimes it takes hard work. It sometimes takes doing the unthinkable, doing that thing that causes you a great deal of fear initially. And then when we recognise that fear is a state of mind.
We find a way. We always find a way, because someone has found a way
and therefore that tells us that a way is possible.
It is really important to develop a sense that our lives now are important and that there is no time to wait. There is no time to wait. Also there is no point in waiting. Do what is required today and tomorrow will look after itself. Explore the depth of how we truly want our lives to be, I mean truly to be. Maybe you have decided that it is time to revolutionise your life. I wonder if this was your decision what shape and form this would take. What it is about your life specifically, that you would want to change? Revolutionising your life means making some radical changes. Radical changes as defined and determined by you.
When I decided to give up full time, permanent, supposedly secure employment to work as a freelance Learning and Development Consultant some years ago, a number of people experienced my decision with a great deal of fear and endeavoured to project that fear on to me with defeatist questions, asked in such defeatist tones. Won't you miss getting a regular salary? How are you going to live? What will you do for money? I have to say that I did not have any of these fears for myself, because I knew that I would do what I have always done and that is to find a way to make my life work for me, which I did and still do.
There are many stories of young people visiting Careers Advisors who suggested that a career at the local supermarket was perhaps the option they ought to pursue as opposed to the one that they set themselves. There is nothing wrong with pursuing a career at the local supermarket if that is what you choose to do and have a look at Bal's story to see how her life has progressed. Baroness Scotland who subsequently became the first Black woman QC in Britain was advised by her Careers Adviser that she was setting her sights a bit high when she said she wanted to be a lawyer. These are lifelong lessons €" that can either make you or break you.
Things may not be working for you the way they are currently showing up in your life. I know one of my life lessons, constantly challenging myself to take the next steps, in business for example, stepping outside of my comfort zone and looking seriously at some business propositions that have come my way. Standing outside of my fear 100% of the time and this might seem like a tall order and for me this is what revolutionising my life looks like. Releasing me from the opinions of others, particularly when those opinions are of the `negative' `cannot do' `cannot be' `who do you think you are?' variety.
In what ways might you need to revolutionise your own life? The answer is near and sometimes far. It is an ongoing process of discovery. It is worth examining our belief and value systems that help to drive our lives. What is important to you and why? Are your values currently in line with the way that you are living your life? Is there any conflict? If there is, how will you change those conflicts? What do you need to do now to be in complete alignment with your values?
In life we need to take charge and maintain power over ourselves and not give that power away. This means taking charge over our emotions and our thought processes ensuring that we are not allowing ourselves to be defined by others. It means taking charge over the direction of our lives. It means directing our energies and focus to areas that we believe will make a difference to ourselves and others. Spending time in our lives doing something that will exist beyond us €" creating a legacy can ensure longevity for something worthwhile. Our life is about creating a life that we believe is worth living. There are too many of us living an existence, for example in jobs that we do not really want to be doing. In essence, living a life that is unfulfilled.
Is it possible for everyone to live the life they wish to lead at least in part? I believe it is. I believe it is entirely possible that even if people do not feel wholly content at work, then it is possible at least to make parts of the job enjoyable, if this is not possible then maybe it is time to ask some serious questions about whether that is the right job or not. Notwithstanding this, fulfilment can come from other areas of life such as charitable work. The point here is to find the work that most satisfies your spirit and do it. Here we get the opportunity to create the life that we consider is worth living.
The human potential is vast: way, way, way beyond anyone's imaginings €" way beyond and then some more. The route to this vastness is not always very clearly laid out and yet in the search, in stepping forward, that clarity comes ever closer. What is clear though is that in sitting and looking at a path, without taking action, nothing will change. We can view the world as we want it to be and create the conditions to make it so. See some of the stories scattered throughout this book and you will see this is exactly what many of the contributors have done. I'm not saying it's always easy, I am saying however that you'll get a sense from some of the stories what it actually takes to get to where you want to be. t takes work and sometimes it takes hard work. It sometimes takes doing the unthinkable, doing that thing that causes you a great deal of fear initially. And then when we recognise that fear is a state of mind.
We find a way. We always find a way, because someone has found a way
and therefore that tells us that a way is possible.
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