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.
Everything he said was amazing, but one piece stuck out to me.
He told us that we must all "accept our condition" if we are going to move forward with our lives.
What did he mean?
He meant that if you can see who you are right now in full honesty, you can move forward in becoming who you want to be.
If you take it a few steps further, you have to look at your entire life in depth and understand where you can make improvements.
The other important part is to see them as they are and not how you think they should have been.
Why is this important?
It becomes the solid foundation that you can build your new life upon.
Going through this process of self reflection allows you to create a new life and ditch the old one.
When you can stop avoiding the past and accept yourself for who you truly are, you then are able to move forward into creating a beautiful new future. But if you leave the past a mess, you're asking for serious trouble.
So how do we actually do this audit in real terms?
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?"
This will give you the experience of being able to see what your life's landscape looks like at the moment.
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?"
And lastly, you have to envision as far as you can down the line and start working a plan backwards from there.
If you can do this piece by piece, you have created battle plans to work with.
This will make you grounded in the future as you know what you are heading towards and what you want with your life.
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 a chunk of time out of your day to understand where you are exactly and where you need to be.
To help you get from where you are now to where you need to be in the future.
All of this is pure magic.
Everything he said was amazing, but one piece stuck out to me.
He told us that we must all "accept our condition" if we are going to move forward with our lives.
What did he mean?
He meant that if you can see who you are right now in full honesty, you can move forward in becoming who you want to be.
If you take it a few steps further, you have to look at your entire life in depth and understand where you can make improvements.
The other important part is to see them as they are and not how you think they should have been.
Why is this important?
It becomes the solid foundation that you can build your new life upon.
Going through this process of self reflection allows you to create a new life and ditch the old one.
When you can stop avoiding the past and accept yourself for who you truly are, you then are able to move forward into creating a beautiful new future. But if you leave the past a mess, you're asking for serious trouble.
So how do we actually do this audit in real terms?
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?"
This will give you the experience of being able to see what your life's landscape looks like at the moment.
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?"
And lastly, you have to envision as far as you can down the line and start working a plan backwards from there.
If you can do this piece by piece, you have created battle plans to work with.
This will make you grounded in the future as you know what you are heading towards and what you want with your life.
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 a chunk of time out of your day to understand where you are exactly and where you need to be.
To help you get from where you are now to where you need to be in the future.
All of this is pure magic.
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