What happens when your Reality TV train leaves the station? You’re left alone with your life! Reality TV can be a great escape mechanism, however, do you get caught up in it? After the TV show, you’re left with your feelings, your reactions and knowing what your life is really about. And, do you allow time to process these feelings, as unresolved issues grow into habits. Then when a trigger occurs, “BOOM”, everything comes out, just like the tip of the iceberg! You have the chance to get off the Reality TV express train at the station RIGHT NOW and design the life you would love, whether it’s a new career, in music, art or, a new business.
So you’ve left the train – congratulations! Now is a great time to see where you’re at in your life! The first step to start you on a journey to discover yourself and who you are meant to become is to look at your life purpose. It is important to learn how to know yourself and begin answering the big questions of life. It is important to learn what inspires you, why you are here and what you are supposed to experience, learn and get out of this lifetime. So, take out a few sheets of loose paper, or a journal and a pen and find a quiet place where you will not be interrupted. Turn off your mobile phone, your computer. Write the answers to each question down from the list below. Write the first thing that pops into your head. Write without editing. Use point form. It’s important to write out your answers rather than just thinking about them. Write quickly and be honest. Nobody will read it. It’s important to write without editing:
- What makes you smile? (Activities, people, vents, hobbies, projects etc.)
- What were your favourite things to do in the past? What about now?
- What activities make you lose track of time?
- What makes you feel great about yourself?
- Write down all of your major goals in your life that you feel you want to achieve
- Who inspires you most? (Any one you know or do not know. Family, friends, authors, artists, leaders, etc.). Which qualities inspire you, in each person?
- What are you naturally good at? (skills, abilities, gifts etc.)
- What do people typically ask you for help in?
- If you had to teach something, what would you teach?
Keep your answers in a notebook that’s both easy to access and update wherever you happen to be: it will be a source of sustaining you and by which you can continue to measure your growth through life. Do the things that you have discovered in this exercise and that you would really like to do! Pick up those watercolours. Write a short story or a blog. Start a new business. Plan a trip (when you can). Have a zoom dinner with a family member. Start cracking jokes. Open up. Tell the truth. Whatever it is that you have decided you want to be, do or have, start being and doing now. Notice the changes that are taking place and reward your successes on the way.
If you spend time and energy on aligning who you are, with what you do, you will be well on your way to true freedom. The path to self-discovery never really ends but is the producer of meaning and purpose: therefore the persistent effort and long duration of the journey is actually welcomed, rather than disdained.
Enjoy the journey of discovery to your true self!
And, if you’d like support to develop your true self, email me at geoffedwards@bigpond.com
Geoff Edwards is an internationally accredited Life Coach with over 25 years of coaching experience who can support you on your journey to success with results that last. He can be contacted via geoffedwards@bigpond.com or through his website www.geoffedwards.net
