Life Changing Opportunity

By vine | May 11th, 2010

Ever felt your life was in a closed loop, going nowhere, trapped in a lift with no prospect of being saved? Well it’s all just about your life process; if you keep doing the same things and you will get the same results. To effect lasting change you have to do something different in your life to give yourself a real life changing opportunity. Take a look at yourself, Your PLC or Your Inc and review the ‘State of Your Life’. Work out precisely where you are in your timeline and how you got there. Life is not like a business enterprise but it has some similarities, like an income source, expenditure, a planned structure, relationships, risks, commitments and personal goals. Your life plan will always need attention, like any business or it will fail.

State of Life

In reviewing your ‘State of Life’ take a snap shot of your life now and look at where you are, your outputs, what you have achieved, be pedantic and include all aspects of your life even the outcomes that you feel uncomfortable about. If you what to effect lasting change it’s both the successful and unsuccessful things that may have to change. In your review, give yourself enough time and space to really get in touch with your previous emotional life journey, so your list is as accurate as possible. But beware about your feelings, they can lead you astray, so detract yourself as much as possible and a hard long look at the person in the mirror.  Take steps to get all your facts and don’t blur things, slow down and distance yourself from distractions and really think over on your past.    

Take a cold look at your review and ask yourself ‘How did you get here?’ Take each outcome, good or bad and write down the actions, you took that got you there and are you happy with your outcome? Ask yourself; what are the processes or the plan I am following to achieve these outcomes.  It could be a need or desire to attain a certain income, but are you simply working to gain an income rather than a job or career with real gratification. Take a close look at the source or the driving force behind each outcome. For example, to effect lasting change in your career you will need to change the plan or motivating force behind attaining that income.

Breaking the mould

We all feel comfortable in our familiar patterns within our life cycles. The real challenge is turning left into the unknown rather that taking that old well trodden path to the right. As you make lasting changes, the new path you beat out in the uncharted jungle will look overwhelming and daunting but do not feel tempted to return to the old secure safe path luring nearby. One day in the future when you have established lasting change in your life, the new path will feel safe and secure and that old familiar path will be over grown and forgotten. The sheer energy and courage to beat a new path should invigorate you, simulate your emotion drive and break the mould, getting you out of that closed loop to a bright new future. 

So, change the source and you change the outcome. For example look at your options about career change, perhaps you simply need to take a different job within your chosen career. This change may involve working with your current employer to discover a new position.  You may have to consider a full job-search, or temping or becoming a consultant or freelancing, or other home-based business or a life changing opportunity.

Explore all your options, seek help if you need to and do not allow yourself to feel overwhelmed. Take charge and developing a prioritised list of outcomes you want or need to change. You need to buck the trend. And then bask the satisfaction of making changes to your life that really work. The changes are the foundation for your new blueprint for life