Take charge of your life NOW!

Are you drifting along doing jobs you merely like? Are you settling for a relationship that isn’t what you dreamed of? Why are you doing that? You need to be in charge of your own life because if you leave the direction of your life to other people it will never be what you really want.

Work it out!

You might think you don’t know what direction you really ought to be taking. But you probably have an inkling. What are you dreaming about while you wait for the photocopier to finish printing? What are you doing when the afternoon just flies by? When someone asks what you do for a living what do you wish you could tell them? Set clear goals for yourself!

Make a path

When you realise that you know what you want you must act on it! Do some research. Maybe you need to study and re-train. Maybe you have the technical skills and now need to learn about running your own business. Don’t just leave it all pie in the sky – Work out how you are going to get there!

Do it!

That’s a pretty big step just there. But the real step is the next bit. Doing what you love. Having what you want. For real. Taking charge of your life just about the single most exciting thing you can do for yourself this lifetime.

Put away all your insecurities. Set aside your self doubt. Get rid of all your excuses: You are not too young/old to start (Look, An 84 year old man is learning to read at primary school), you are not too overweight to be slim again, you have willpower. If you find it too hard to believe in yourself then surround yourself in people that believe in you and let the fan club do the talking. (Just make sure you return the favour, okay?)

You would never have got as far as you have today if you had believed you were incapable of changing yourself. Learning to walk, read, ride a bike are all huge undertakings. When you first sat on that bike and saw the ground a long, long way away you were probably scared to death. Scared that you weren’t going to be able to ride and scared that not being able to ride was going to hurt a lot. And for a long time you couldn’t ride. And it hurt. And it damaged your confidence every time you fell off. But you believed it was possible. You believed you could do it. And eventually you did.

What happened to your childlike self-belief? When you knew nothing about anything and you had everything in the world to learn why did you believe you could? Why can’t you do that for yourself now?

So, what’s stopping you from having it all? Why have you not taken that step? Do you have a plan? Is the path achievable? Are you able to visualise yourself achieving your goals? As a happy, successful person? Yes, it can be you!

Take the first step.