Hi, and welcome to La Vie Attachée. Change your thoughts, change your life. I'm Peggy McKnight. In today's episode, I'm going to ask you a series of questions revolving around your life.
How do you feel about your life at the moment? Are you living it fully of what you are capable of? Does life feel really good? Do you wake up in the morning feeling energized and raring to go?
Okay, so if you're not a morning person and you just can't get there, how about in the evening? Do you get really charged up and excited about what you can do to burn the midnight oil? If all of that is a yes, then maybe you want to skip this episode. Or, maybe you just want to carry on listening, that was your signal, by the way, to what I am about to share with you.
So, basically, why are you working so hard? For those of you that don't feel that energy, enthusiasm, and light that really ignites you to do something with your life. If you're waking up thinking, oh, not another day, and you are literally living from Monday to Friday and excited about Friday, Friday you live for, you just work throughout the rest of the week, then maybe you want to start asking yourself, am I doing what I'm meant to be doing? Am I doing the right thing for me in my life?
Does this excite me? Does this light me up? Have I found my purpose? Has boredom set in where you no longer feel challenged with the world?
You're just going through the motions day in and day out and it is what it is. Often enters your vocabulary. Then maybe, just maybe, now really is the time to pivot. I'm not saying radical changes, just a tweak and a pivot in your life to really get you back on the right track of your life purpose, your sense of meaning to offer the world and what your light and energy can bring to people.
Really have a good think about that and what you can do and what does that look like. Start exploring what excites you. It doesn't have to be drop this, completely shut it off and start something brand new. Absolutely not.
Especially for some of us who are, you know, very responsible adults and have to pay the bills, then reality sets in and oftentimes bites that you have to do what you have to do in order to earn a crust and pay the bills, but you know all the while you are finding little snippets of time here and there throughout each day to explore and engage in something that really excites you. And what I absolutely love to do is meet new people or even people that I know and talk to them about what really resonates with them. And I can see their whole being just lighting up because they really love what they do or are very passionate about it. That really does excite me to, to be around people like that.
So do you know what you want in life? Do you have the courage to actually make that pivot? In 10 years' time, who do you want to be? What does that look like?
Are you seeing the person in the mirror currently now today that will be that person in 10 years' time? Even if, if that mirror is your mind's eye, can you see it very clearly with regards to what you will be and what you will be doing in 10 years' time? If you can't and things are a bit fuzzy, then I've got something for you at the end, but for now, let's just focus on what it looks like in 10 years' time. And I want to share with you that I for a long time, and maybe this is because of my husband's line of work being in the army and me, I've, I felt a bit like a drifter.
I often describe myself as being a bit like a zombie and for the most part, I think I was. Well, I know I was because I was very much letting life happen to me. You know, I was very happy being married to my husband and very happy to leave one job and pick up another in a new place that we would be moving to. I knew that every two to three years, it was a given we would be moving on.
So I was prepared for that. There was an awful lot of stress and anxiety wrapped up with that. Would I find a new job and how will I settle in? But for the most part, that happened quite quickly and fairly seamlessly.
I don't remember a time of moving to somewhere new, whether it be Canada, Hong Kong, or anywhere else in the UK that we've lived where it was a complete upheaval. I don't recall that at all, but I just know for a fact that I was very much letting life happen to me. So those, we were basically being told where we were moving on to the next time around when it would come up every two to three years. So I wasn't really thinking about 10 years ahead and what my life would look like.
What do I want to do? I was very much happy, you know, living the admin world and then the training world and then the accounting world. I had a lot of opportunities to explore various different things. I've never been one of these people that knew exactly what they wanted to do from a very early age.
I have very much been a bit of a nomad in the fact that I would travel around by, by choice, but also by design of my husband's line of work being in the British military. And it excited me to see where we would be going next and what kind of a job I would see. Now, all along the way, I felt pretty good, albeit very temporarily, but I felt good that I was able to carve out a career that saw progression. So I would advance through, you know, different stages of the working world and the levels that I ended up at.
I was very happy with that and that would do for me nicely. Thank you very much. But something inside of me was really bubbling away inside that said, no, this isn't the path that I'm meant to be on. I need to pivot.
And when I pivoted and really listened to my inner voice, that's when things have really started to change and for the better and for the good. And it just really excites me to, to be living my life right here and right now. I have never been in a better place at the moment. Oddly, you would think, gee, with coronavirus being told that, you know, we should all stay safe and stay home, I'm happy with that.
Maybe it's because I'm an introvert, but I also have extrovert tendencies. Who knows? But none of that has really ultimately bothered me in a very big way. Now I'm not saying that everyone should be like this.
Absolutely not. And my heart goes out to people who have genuinely been really struggling, but I think it's also very important to be mindful and to remind yourself every day when you are in a bit of a struggle that this too shall pass. But when you say those words, make sure you know where you're heading when you say this too shall pass, because before you know it, you'll be ending up some rabbit hole or a dark tunnel that, Oh, I didn't realize I was going to be going down that road. And so when you say the words, this too shall pass, also keep in mind what your new you looks like.
And that is your reminder of, yes, this shall pass, but I've got my eye on the prize or my eye on the ball. I know where I'm heading. And there we go. Let's go.
So those are some tips and suggestions that I would like to offer to you. Another big offer I would like to give to you is by checking out my website. I've launched a new product about pivoting, a new you and strategic thinking. I think these go hand in hand really nicely as a bundled package because if you just pivot, you don't know where you're going.
You don't know, is this the new you I want to be or is that what I want it to look like? So by adding in a new you book, it gives you that insight and help as well, as well as a strategic thinking perspective. So these are three books that will help you. They have three workbooks attached to them.
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Bye for now.