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 that came out of his mouth hit ready ears and they changed my life for good.
He told us that we must all "accept our condition" if we are going to move forward with our lives.
What did he mean by this?
Accepting your condition is all about understanding exactly where you are at in life.
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.
Not as you want them to be.
Why is it absolutely critical to do this?
It becomes the solid foundation that you can build your new life upon.
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.
Accept where you are now, accept that your actions in the past have driven you to the place where you are at this moment, and you will be on your way along the developmental process and the goal setting path.
So how do you actually go through the process of auditing your life?
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 engage in this practice you get everything that is floating around in your head on paper and it helps you to start sorting things out.
You truly give yourself the chance to see what is going on in your life right now and start creating a map around where you want to head.
The second piece of this is to envision what you want in the future and start working backwards from Z to A.
Step by step by step by step.
What's the last piece of all of this? Write down everything you need to know and everything you have to engage in to accomplish this end goal.
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 seriously understand where you are at and how you need to go to where you want to go.
Know that if you accept responsibility for everything, your life really gets a fresh start.
This process is magic.
The words that came out of his mouth hit ready ears and they changed my life for good.
He told us that we must all "accept our condition" if we are going to move forward with our lives.
What did he mean by this?
Accepting your condition is all about understanding exactly where you are at in life.
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.
Not as you want them to be.
Why is it absolutely critical to do this?
It becomes the solid foundation that you can build your new life upon.
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.
Accept where you are now, accept that your actions in the past have driven you to the place where you are at this moment, and you will be on your way along the developmental process and the goal setting path.
So how do you actually go through the process of auditing your life?
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 engage in this practice you get everything that is floating around in your head on paper and it helps you to start sorting things out.
You truly give yourself the chance to see what is going on in your life right now and start creating a map around where you want to head.
The second piece of this is to envision what you want in the future and start working backwards from Z to A.
Step by step by step by step.
What's the last piece of all of this? Write down everything you need to know and everything you have to engage in to accomplish this end goal.
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 seriously understand where you are at and how you need to go to where you want to go.
Know that if you accept responsibility for everything, your life really gets a fresh start.
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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