In the words of Mary Oliver:
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
Wow: That’s huge!
Yet strangely, it’s probably more apt now, in this economic doom and gloom that’s poised to suck us right down with it, than at other time for the past 70-odd years. And if you’re facing change, with the threat or reality of redundancy, now is as good a time as any to really take stock:
What do you want?
In the words of the Spice Girls – old hat now, yet still holds true – What do you really, really want? Or, to put it another way:
Where do you want to be?
Hint: “Somewhere warm and sunny with good health and enough money” is nice and fluffy but fluffy doesn’t do it… So, to help you along you might want to ask:
What do I want to achieve
Why is that important to me?
How important is it to me?
Maybe don’t think how you’re going to do it at this stage because that tends to hold us back and make us think small. It’s more liberating to concentrate on the what first.
If you’re going to be the star of your own life rather than having a walk-on role in somebody else’s, what is that going to look like? How BIG can you think?
Facing redundancy? Be bold! Think BIG!
September 28th, 2009 at 8:28 am
Somewhere warm and sunny, am thinking Hawaii (specific enough
).
I am an expert at blue skying think and totally creative, but how to get that out of my head and onto the page? thats harder, and therein lies the problem, the harder something is the less I want to do it and most people are the same.
Takes some sheer bloody mindedness to get some things done….