A few years ago I listened to one of my teachers give our class a Holiday pep talk before we left for vacation and I never forgot it.
One piece however, truly stuck out to me.
Accept your condition.
What did he mean by this?
He meant that you should understand exactly where you are in life and know why you got there.
It means looking at all different areas of your life - relationships, body, thoughts and emotions, and your environment (work, natural, etc) - and seeing things as they are...
The other important part is to see them as they are and not how you think they should have been.
The reason why you need to look at where you are now is...
It builds the foundation for the next steps of where you want to go
It allows you to take serious responsibility for how things are right now and gives you the ability to step into the goal setting process with vigor and motivation.
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, auditing your life...what does that actually mean in terms of implementation?
The best way to do this is to get on a huge chalkboard and draw out your entire life answering the question of where you are at.
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.
When you audit your life, you give yourself the ability to go, "Okay, where do I want to be? What do I see for myself?"
The second piece of this is to envision what you want in the future and start working backwards from Z to A.
If you do this piece by piece you can create milestones for yourself to build that battle plan of yours.
This will give you a milestone based path instead of going into something completely blind. Then, out of those big milestones, write little lists underneath of, "What do I know now & what do I need to know?"
Those lists of what you need to know will further guide you in the right direction.
So make sure you are really investing time into understanding what skills, resources, and competencies that you need to bring into your life...
To help you get from where you are now to where you need to be in the future.
This process is magic.
One piece however, truly stuck out to me.
Accept your condition.
What did he mean by this?
He meant that you should understand exactly where you are in life and know why you got there.
It means looking at all different areas of your life - relationships, body, thoughts and emotions, and your environment (work, natural, etc) - and seeing things as they are...
The other important part is to see them as they are and not how you think they should have been.
The reason why you need to look at where you are now is...
It builds the foundation for the next steps of where you want to go
It allows you to take serious responsibility for how things are right now and gives you the ability to step into the goal setting process with vigor and motivation.
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, auditing your life...what does that actually mean in terms of implementation?
The best way to do this is to get on a huge chalkboard and draw out your entire life answering the question of where you are at.
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.
When you audit your life, you give yourself the ability to go, "Okay, where do I want to be? What do I see for myself?"
The second piece of this is to envision what you want in the future and start working backwards from Z to A.
If you do this piece by piece you can create milestones for yourself to build that battle plan of yours.
This will give you a milestone based path instead of going into something completely blind. Then, out of those big milestones, write little lists underneath of, "What do I know now & what do I need to know?"
Those lists of what you need to know will further guide you in the right direction.
So make sure you are really investing time into understanding what skills, resources, and competencies that you need to bring into your life...
To help you get from where you are now to where you need to be in the future.
This process is magic.
About the Author:
Evan Sanders is a professional life coach at AYKME coaching. Dive into some great Motivational Quotes For Work clicking here or read more Self Confidence quotes to start heading in the right direction with your life.
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