There are some moments in life you will never forget. A few years ago one of my teachers gave a speech that will always stay with me.
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? See things as they are and not how you think they should be.
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 I've been able to do this is to get a piece of paper and brainstorm everything surrounding your life at the moment. Where are you at? What has happened in your past that has really affected you?
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?"
The what you need to know part of the list should be a hell of a lot longer and more dense than the "what you know" part of the list. Truth is, you only have started to scratch the surface in a world full of knowledge.
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? See things as they are and not how you think they should be.
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 I've been able to do this is to get a piece of paper and brainstorm everything surrounding your life at the moment. Where are you at? What has happened in your past that has really affected you?
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?"
The what you need to know part of the list should be a hell of a lot longer and more dense than the "what you know" part of the list. Truth is, you only have started to scratch the surface in a world full of knowledge.
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 these great Work Quotes or these Confidence Quotes to get some motivation to move forward!
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