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.
The words he spoke were impactful and really changed how I looked at life.
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...
Not as you want them to be.
Why is it so important to do this?
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?
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 go through this process it really gives you great visual experience of what's going on in your life and how you need to reorganize everything.
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?"
That what you need to know list should be a hell of a lot longer than the what you know list.
So take some time to understand the landscape and begin to invest in yourself so you can start to move forward in this life.
To help you get from where you are now to where you need to be in the future.
This process is magic.
The words he spoke were impactful and really changed how I looked at life.
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...
Not as you want them to be.
Why is it so important to do this?
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?
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 go through this process it really gives you great visual experience of what's going on in your life and how you need to reorganize everything.
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?"
That what you need to know list should be a hell of a lot longer than the what you know list.
So take some time to understand the landscape and begin to invest in yourself so you can start to move forward in this 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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