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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.
One piece however, truly stuck out to me.
He said that we all must accept who we are if we are going to move forward with our lives.
What do I mean by this?
He meant that you should understand exactly where you are in life and know why you got there.
To take it a few steps further, it means that you truly have to look into all areas of your life and understand why they are how they are - relationships, money, job, body etc.
The other important part is to see them as they are and not how you think they should have been.
Why is it so important to do this?
Because the honesty is the thing in which you can build the foundation of your new life upon.
Going through this process allows you to step right into building a new life without trying to escape your old one.
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.
Then, you have to ask yourself, "Where do I want to be?"
The other piece of this puzzle is to envision what is in the future for you and to work backwards from there.
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 take some time to understand the landscape and begin to invest in yourself so you can start to move forward in this life.
And this will help you achieve your greatest vision.
This process is pure magic.
One piece however, truly stuck out to me.
He said that we all must accept who we are if we are going to move forward with our lives.
What do I mean by this?
He meant that you should understand exactly where you are in life and know why you got there.
To take it a few steps further, it means that you truly have to look into all areas of your life and understand why they are how they are - relationships, money, job, body etc.
The other important part is to see them as they are and not how you think they should have been.
Why is it so important to do this?
Because the honesty is the thing in which you can build the foundation of your new life upon.
Going through this process allows you to step right into building a new life without trying to escape your old one.
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.
Then, you have to ask yourself, "Where do I want to be?"
The other piece of this puzzle is to envision what is in the future for you and to work backwards from there.
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 take some time to understand the landscape and begin to invest in yourself so you can start to move forward in this life.
And this will help you achieve your greatest vision.
This process is pure magic.
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