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How to Figure Out What You Really Want

Last updated on: October 11, 2016 at 8:49 am by Ellen Debenport

How to Figure Out What You Really Want 2016-10-11T08:49:33-05:00 Ellen Debenport

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Take your notes from each quadrant and write a vision statement. (Really, it’s more of an essay.)

Make it present tense. It’s three years from now, and you’re living exactly the way you want. Everything has worked out beautifully.

You can start with, “I’m so happy and grateful now that . . .” and write from the place where it has already happened. Where all is well.

Don’t worry about getting it exactly right. You can always tinker with your vision. It’s especially malleable while it’s still in the realm of thought.

If you read your vision statement every day, you’ll begin to notice steps you can take in its direction. Ideas will materialize, people who can help you will show up, money might fall into your lap. You’ll begin to seize opportunities.

Really. Don’t rule it out!

The hardest part of living into a vision is overcoming the voices that say, “That’ll never happen.” This is why people hire life coaches to help them stick with it, just like a personal trainer at the gym. It hurts at first, but progress is so much faster.

Put some effort into creating a support system. Is there someone you could talk to about your dreams for life, who would hold them safely and envision them with you? This might be a friend, a master mind group, a sponsor.

And remember this, from playwright George Bernard Shaw:

“This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap.”

Clock is ticking.

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