Dear friends and family; the New Year is approaching and for many of us this is a time of reflection and goal setting.
Our lives are made up of a complex network of pathways that we can use to move from one phase of life to the next. For some of us, our paths are wide, smooth, and clearly marked. Many people, however, find that they have a difficult time figuring out where they need to go next. Determining which “next step” will land you on the most direct route to happiness; fulfillment and the realization of your life purpose may not seem easy.
There are many ways to discover what the next step on your life path should be. If you are someone who seeks to satisfy your soul, it is vital that you make this inquiry. Often, your inner voice will counsel you that it’s time for a change, and it is very important to trust yourself because only you know what is best for you.
In our search for happiness, those of us on the path of transformation and personal growth often have a tendency to analyze our unhappiness in order to find the causes and make improvements. But it is just as important, if not more so, to analyze our happiness. Since we have the ability to rise above and observe our emotions, we can recognize when we are feeling joyful and content. Then we can harness the power of the moment by savoring our feelings and taking time to be grateful for them.
Conditions are never perfect. “Someday” is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. Pro and con lists are just as bad. If it’s important to you and you want to do it ‘eventually’ just do it and correct the course along the way.” Sometimes, in the beginning all we need is to make minor changes to our lives blueprint. The point is to just start to make things happen. As we gain momentum, we’ll begin to experiences bigger and better changes and growth in our live and as a result, growth in our happiness too.
Here’s my personal truth; people who get what they want tend to be the ones who make the effort to know what they want. If we feel confined in a tiny limited life, imagine the life you would like to be living. One way to discover the limits of the life we want is to use our imagination, visualize your life in a new way and then venture a little way past the vision into the energy of outrageous awesome possibilities.
If we stay loose and relaxed as we’re conjuring up the various possibilities, we’ll notice that some of them leave us a feeling of intrigue, curiosity, a bit lighter. These are your preferences. Let them tiptoe into your consciousness; just simply allow them, watching them as an observer, because if we could already think about our preferences clearly, we’d be creating not complaining.
T.S. Elliot wrote, “Wait without thought, for we are not ready for thought.”
Allow the vision to take form, leaving a vague impression, and then go for a bit more specificity; as if we were bring a camera into focus. Allow and watch. If we remain playful and patient, the preferences forming in our consciousness will eventually become clear enough to describe the preference in words. Still wait!! Don’t jump the gun; hold on a bit longer and get what I call maximum specificity by pinpointing the desires. Let them simply unfold.
Stay with the vision and think of a solution you would like to see, ask yourself, “What would be even better?” After allowing another answer to come into focus, ask yourself “What would be even better than that?” Repeat this process until you have an image of a situation that is so perfect, you can’t imagine a way to top it. This is what I call pinpoint clarity.
Here is an example: “It’s like telling the waiter to bring you something delicious. You have no idea, but you’ll know when you taste it.” No order that fuzzy is likely to produce a satisfying result.
However using a process such as outlined above; now you’re telling the waiter, “Please bring me two free—range eggs boiled for exactly three minutes, seasoned with a dash of sea salt and coarsely ground pepper.
I do this…..smiling and sometimes that kind of clarity may raise eyebrows, but guess what, it lets everyone and everything around me deliver exactly what I want.Here are seven tips that I practice to jump start my goals.
Take no less than 100% responsibility for your life
Be clear why you are here
Decide what you want
Believe it’s possible
Believe in yourself
Know the universe totally supports you
Unleash your power of goal setting
It is when you are willing to listen to yourself and be fearless that figuring out your next step becomes easy. Beneath the fear and hesitation and uncertainty lies your inner knowing that always knows which step you need to take next. If you can allow the taking of your next step to be as easy as putting one foot in front of the next, you’ll notice that your next step is always the one that is right in front of you. All you have to do is put one foot forward and on the ground.
I wish you a Happy New Year and may all your goals come to fruition this coming year. May you experience happiness, joy and peace and may you be well and happy.…… Blessings and love to you and your families.