THIS IS A GOOD TIME TO START SOMETHING DIFFERENT

For as long as I can remember, I have been pursing something - the next thing, never really sitting still for long. All through my working life I have been learning, changing, rearranging my life to to fit into the next idea. In the coaching world we call this being future orientated. Or designing your future.

From the age of 21 I have been working for myself. I was a bit of a trail blazer in the skin care industry and created an appointment only Fashion Studio for professional and working women to come and buy their clothes by appointment - a very new concept in Canberra at the time. Now working with many other professional women, having amazing conversations about what they want, what brings them joy, and questioning how they can I do it all!!

We keep searching for what we need out side of us, waiting for instructions, someone giving us the answers.The answers, however come from the inside and sometimes they can be too difficult to access, why? How often do you create a space where you can think about what you want or dream about? Making things happen is a personal choice, no matter how small.

The question I ask myself and you is, what do you want? Simple enough question, often difficult to answer. We all need safety and security - a stable world to live in, one that we can figure out how to live in, we need love and affection, a sense of belonging, we need respect, social recognition, and dignity, these around our needs/values. 

Beyond our needs/values which enable us to have health and well-being, are our human needs/values - Knowledge, meaning, justice, equality, love and beauty, contribution, excellence in what we do and making a difference in our world. These are our higher needs, these are our being-needs.

Values are what we need to be fully alive and human, we can live our best lives if we understand what's  important to us. Our values set our compass for what we do and how we spend our time. Values help us live our lives intentionally, by design. If you want more out of life, set your intention to what you want your life to look like. Start where you are right now. Stop what you're doing and ask yourself - how can I make this moment better.

Your intentions operates like a secret power behind your thinking-feeling. There’s a reason for this, it’s because by setting your intention you set your direction, you decide on your values, you choose your meanings and understandings. It's with your intention that you step up to your highest executive functions and become the CEO of your own life and inner world. It is here that you make your decisions. It's with your intention that you make the choice to become the author of your own life.

An example how you intention works is -  think about a holiday you have planned - it may have been to Spain or Italy. You decided, you set your intention to make it happen. Your brain started to filter the millions of bits of information that you are exposed to every single day and showed you pictures of what you want, you started to experienced your holiday before you even got there.

My only doing suggestion for you today, is to think about who you want to be, to have what you want to have and set your intention, write it down and then focus all your attention on it.

*Reference the work of L. Michael Hall - one of my teachers