Have you forgotten what is important?

Is it time to look at your life? Distractions are everywhere, our lives are busier than ever and that can cause us to forget what is important in our lives. It takes removing the distractions and creating awareness for us to consciously remember those things that have meaning to us. “Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling five balls in the air. You name them – work, family, health, friends, and spirit – and you are keeping all of these in the air. You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. But the other four balls – family, health, friends, and spirit are made of glass. If you drop one of these, they will be irrevocably scuffed, marked, nicked, damaged, or even shattered. They will never be the same. You must understand that and strive for balance in your life.” Brian Dyson of Coca-Cola Enterprises Have you settled? Are you too comfortable? Only a little bit overweight? Are relationships just ok? Is work ok? Do you feel stuck? Earning just enough money? When asked how you are doing you say “Not bad or “I’m fine” If you were to look at each area of your life: Health, wealth, relationships, hobbies, learning, growth and spirituality how would you fare? Honestly? What is that voice quietly saying to you? Are you suppressing it? Is it time to start listening and take action? “If pain must come, may it come quickly because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now? Then I will either wait for him or forget him.” ― Paulo Coelho Life is in a constant state of flux, each minute, hour, day, month, year changes are continually happening with or without us. Life goes on, and as it does it is filled with more and more “to do lists”. These distractions take us away from the things in our lives that are truly important. Everyone has different things in their life that are important. Be careful though to focus on the real areas of your life, not those things that seem important at the time. People will provide you with enough drama to last you a lifetime. Maybe you are a busy professional and you don’t think you have the time to do those activities or sport or hobbies you use to love to do. Maybe you’re a busy Mum that’s raised wonderful kids, leaving little time for you over the last few years and that's causing your health to suffer as a result. Maybe you have had a tragedy in your family or someone close to you and it deeply affected you, you forgot to have fun or allow yourself to be happy or stopped you doing those things that brought you joy. Maybe you had an injury from a sport and it stopped you running or swimming or cycling and you just never started back up again. Life gets busy, it gets away from us, we have all these things going on in our lives and we can forget what's important. When we rediscover that what we love it has a flow on effect throughout our lives, our relationships improve, we are happier, more engaged, healthier and more productive. Unfortunately, these things aren’t on our radar all of the time. “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” ― Oscar Wilde So how to we do it? Rate yourself across each of these areas in your life. For this, to work, you need to breathe deep and be honest with yourself. No matter how good think we are, there is always another level. Health Family Hobbies Fun Career Finances Spirituality Personal Growth “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” ― H. Jackson Brown Jr 1. For the next month focus on one area of your life and try to improve it in every way. Finances, health, well-being, happiness whatever you decide go all in on one. The other areas will also naturally lift as you are saying yes to you. 2. Do one thing for you, be selfish, indulge. Whatever it is, whatever is going to put a smile on your face; a round of golf a run, a swim in the ocean, a weekend in the mountains, a day spa. Experience it, live it, feel it, be there in the moment and embrace it. 3. Be spontaneous, break your routine, be creative, do something you haven’t done in a while, or even better do something that you have never done ever before but always wanted to. Call a friend you haven’t spoken to in a while, reach out to a family member you had a falling out with, take the high road. Force yourself to break the routine. “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like there's nobody listening, And live like it's heaven on earth.” ― William W. Purkey Let go of any limiting beliefs that might come up. Say “you know what I can do that, I don’t care what anyone thinks.” To improve takes work, consistency, and effort. But when it means so much you will do what it takes. We can't expect to get different results by doing the same things we have done our whole lives. The effort is worth it, you are worth it, the people around you are worth it. There is this notion that if a relationship takes work then it must not be right, but the reality is that relationships take hard work. You need to be better your partner needs to be better, we all need to be better. If you want to get better at your finances it takes a time to learn the markets to understand how money works. If you want to lose weight and get fit it takes sacrifice and hard work. Managing your diet and training when you don’t feel like it, because of its cold. Getting up in the dark before the family gets up is not easy but it’s worth it. It's not easy being a parent it takes work and commitment patience, but it's worth it. I look forward to hearing what spontaneous activities you get up to and how a little focus can impact your life. Sometimes we can't do it alone and we need support send me an email if there is anything I can do. I would love to offer you a session instead of $250, you can have it for $50 to help you remember and appreciate what's important to you, don't wait for something to shake you into action - riseup@thephoenixexperience.com.au Join me on this journey below. www.facebook.com/thephoenixexp
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