WHY people do not know what it is that they want to do in their life and career and WHAT they should do about it…

How many people do you know who wake up on a Monday morning excited by the prospect of getting up and going off to work? I mean really excited, you know, like you are about to go on holiday to some long awaited destination and now you have woken up and it’s the big day. Getting up and getting ready is so just not a chore, am I right or am I right? The excitement and anticipation is literally coursing through your veins. How sad and disappointing for many of us that these excitement filled mornings do not happen very often if at all between Monday to Friday of an average week. Why? Why do we settle for it? Why be involved in the hum drum of some existence just to get by?
Are you frustrated by your current life and career situation? Are you angry and/or disappointed? Do you ever wonder where your next break will come from? Do you feel alone in this problem? Do you sometimes feel that the gap between what you should or could be doing and where you are is getting wider and that you are not getting any younger? Do you feel a sense of anxiety or even panic building? Are you concerned that your once exciting vision of your unmanifested future will eventually lead, insanely, to a life of quiet desperation? Or have you just given up the ghost because it doesn’t bear thinking about anymore? Do you happen to know the one opportunity both life and career wise that will change your life forever? …

Perhaps you are on track but do not know how to maximise the opportunities that are in front of you. Perhaps you just need help. Help by someone who has been there, knows what its like and can show you the well worn T shirt. If you think that this article has been written with intensity you would be right. It has been written with intensity by someone who for several years lived with this problem. Who has felt the pain, the frustration, and the loneliness and that gradual sinking feeling that I call the life and career vortex? I've seen this and experienced it myself and it’s not nice and it’s not pretty. If anything it’s tragic to watch.

Whatever your situation is good, bad or indifferent how do you know for sure that in five to ten years time of hard work and struggle that you won't be in a similar position to where you are now? Why is it that most people do not know the answers to this question? The answers lie within ourselves. Often we are so busy feeling the pain and frustration of an unfulfilled life and career that we look desperately outside of ourselves for the problem as well as the solution to it. Really when it comes down to it both the problem and the solution lies within ourselves.

How? How can this be? After all don't we live with ourselves 24 hours out of 24? Then how come we do not know this fact or the answers inherent in us. Is it because as was stated earlier that we are so focused on our external lives that our internal lives are often overlooked almost completely?We have worked with literally thousands of people in our time and have witnessed in every case the shock and amazement when people realise just how little they actually know about themselves consciously. A typical exclamation would be 'God how embarrassing I can't believe I''ve lived with myself all these years and I do not know the answers about myself to these basic questions'. Some people even get embarrassed and even angry and defensive at times, not realising that all they are doing is running away from themselves.

So what to do about it? How can we get to know what it is that will really set us forward in life compellingly with a sense of powerful mission and vision?

That will get us up on a Monday morning excited by the week ahead having spent the whole weekend really looking forward to the week ahead. I mean how would that change how much you would get out of your weekend alone, every weekend? There is an old adage stated by someone who found what their dream life would be, and it goes like this. Once you have found what you want to do in life, what really compels you, what you really love doing, then you will never work another day in your life. So again what to do about it?

Well as mentioned earlier it all starts with you. It starts with your own self examination. Why self examination? Because if you do not know what is most important to you, do not truly know what questions to ask in order to know this, then to the degree you do not know yourself you will never ever find out what it is that you are meant to be doing out there. Why? Because you will be truncated from yourself. In other words cut off. Everything that you will choose to do from here will be a gamble made by the seat of your pants, a lets see how it goes approach and before we know it we are in our late thirties or forties accepting a life and career far below our expectations.

Living a life based on compromise and default rather than a life based on design and to the highest standard of happiness and fulfilment possible. Not to mention the external rewards of recognition and financial abundance etc. But examining our lives is not easy. Where do we Start? What questions do we ask? What are we looking out for? There is no quick fix. It is a process. But one thing is for certain the sooner you engage the process and face it the sooner you will find and design a life that is so compelling and exciting that you will in time wake up on that Monday morning in the near future and feel like flying. Why not discover more?

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