Most people don't know what they want.
We have been told that 'I want, never gets' and we put away our dreams in the wardrobe in the attic.
And it can be challenging to encourage that dreamer within you to come out ,so you can get clear on that bold, exciting, adventurous life that you'd love to lead.
After creating a vision, you need a PLAN.
I KNOW this is where we can get really stuck, so in this week's video I share the tool I use to map out the next steps, including how to work out what to do NOW to progress towards your goals.
Read MoreI took a gap year after University and spent 6 months in Canada, where I temped for the securities division in a major bank.
I asked one of the investment advisers whom I'd got to know for some career advice.
He said to me: "Claire I think you could do anything."
Image by Oscar Keys
The kind of whispers we’ve all heard went through my head:
"It’s inevitable - you can’t have good health all the time."
"You’re just getting older, it’s totally normal"
"Everyone has stress in their job, but we all have to work don’t we?"
I started wearing glasses for distance.
Read MoreImage by Julia Ceasar. Used under a creative commons license.
I used to feel disheartened with my teachers when I would show them my work and they said: "Great, but can you do this and make it even better?"
And I would look at them and think:
“I’ve put all my effort into this and you’re wanting MORE?"
Read MoreImage by Joshua Earle. Used under a creative commons license.
Are you still ‘deciding’ to do something about that dream?
How long has it been now? What are you waiting for?
Read MoreI put the date of my relationship with la bella Italia being established as 2013, when I took my first trip to the country, for a few days in June. Yet my love for Italy had been brewing for a few years before that - subtly but with increasing force: moving in with two Italian translators, almost always choosing Italian food to eat when I ventured to local restaurants and picking up my first audio book of Italian language lessons. The beauty, history and culture counterbalanced the less glamourous parts of Italian life (the infamous and complicated system of bureaucracy for example) and I knew Italy was somewhere I wanted to live.
Read MoreImage - my own.
What happens if you have loads and loads of things you want to do in your life, but don’t know how to make them all fit into one big vision?
We think we have to choose because we haven’t got enough time to satisfy them all, and they represent fifty different jobs and industries.
We think we have to compromise. We think we can’t have everything, we have to decide which ideas we want the most and stick with that. We wonder whether we’ll even like it if we get it.
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