2018. Year of Suppressed Dreams or Infinite Possibility?

Time out

In my last post of 2017 I dealt with the idea of giving yourself time out from your day to day routine to reflect on what it is you truly want from life and what changes you need to initiate to bring that about.

Hopefully you were one of many who were fortunate to take time off of work, or time away from your usual daily demands, for a few weeks (or perhaps days) during the recent holiday season.

Where you’d like to be

If that ‘down’ time helped as a catalyst to clarify, in your mind, what it is that you want to achieve this year, then that’s wonderful. You have something of a personal ‘roadmap’ – or at least a pretty good idea of where you’d like to be headed.

Please … hold on to that, don’t discard it!

You see, it’s relatively easy to connect with our inner beings when we are in that relaxed, de-stressed reflective mood that often comes with the holidays.

Back to the rat race

The problem comes when the holiday ends and we find ourselves thrust back into our day to day routines – the dreaded ‘rat race’ as some would call it! We quickly revert back to type, shifting focus away from our inner beings and back to managing the pressing issues of the world around us.

It doesn’t take long before the inner voice, that raised its volume a few notches during the break, is silenced, and the ego reasserts itself. We are left feeling a tad embarrassed that we could allow ourselves to temporarily disconnect with ‘reality’ and dare to dream a little.

‘Reality’ sets in again

As so-called ’reality’ sets in again and we get swept up by our ‘normal’ routines and lack of personal time, we are forced to jettison the ideas and resolutions that we had been so excited and inspired by during the time out.

This is why inspiring thoughts, ideas and fanciful – though probably vague – resolutions, are seldom acted upon and brought to fruition.

The trap … and the way out

But you’ll be pleased to know, there is a way out of this modern day trap.

The solution lies in first recognising that the mundane, life sapping world in which we spend most of our time is not the ‘real world’ but a trap that we get sucked into when we abdicate control of our lives and move into ‘coping mode’.

Creating your own reality

Our inner beings know that our true reality is whatever we want and choose it to be and that we have, within us, everything we need to bring it about.

Each and every one of us is endowed with a special gift or gifts that we can use to help make the world a better place.

When you follow your heart and start to use your gifts, your life will become meaningful, fulfilling … and fun!

Your true real world is there waiting for you to create it 🙂

Get help!

If you’re falling – or have fallen – back into the rat race trap, take a little time out to reconnect with your inner being and listen to your inner voice again.

Then do yourself a favour and get some help to come up with a goal and plan of action to begin to transform your life from what it is to what you really want it to be.

I say help because, as we all know, the external world and its demands are unrelenting. It preys on those who believe they have no option other than to submit to it.

To extricate yourself from the trap, you need confidence and self belief, so you can make the choices and use the personal power you have to create the reality you want.

Life coaches are specially trained with numerous simple yet powerful tools and techniques. They help people like you and me generate the confidence, self belief and connection to personal power needed to escape the trap and create a new, more joyful and rewarding ’real world’ for ourselves.

It’s 2018 and infinite possibilities await you.

Gather your courage – and take action!