Self Improvement: Knowing What Turns You On

I’ve met many people who want more out of life. I talk to many people who feel that they want something different but they’ve no idea what that ‘different’ is. Some are simply not happy where they are – maybe their stuck in an unloving relationship, they hate the job they’re doing or, perhaps, they’ve simply been doing the same job for so long that they’re getting nothing out of it anymore. Many, who take the route of personal development, want more from life but they don’t know what that ‘more’ is.

Do you want more from your life? If you do, you need to have some idea of what that more might be. There’s no point in wishing for something else when you’ve no idea what that something else might look like and feel like. To get what you want out of life, you’ve to know what you want.

In chatting recently with a client who has been working in the same job for the last ten years, I was surprised by how she hadn’t the first idea whatsoever of what she really want to do. She was looking at her options using that sad old formula of her perceived strengths and weaknesses, her career to date and, most tellingly, her perceived need to pay her bills. You might find those last few words to be rather strange – bills are real, they must be paid. But unless you’re an absolute idiot, you’re not going to do something that would leave you destitute

The problem is that our commitments always seem to be uppermost in our minds. Perhaps this has something to do with recent research that suggests that the normal person is obsessed with money and fearful of not having enough of it (whatever enough might be). Forget about your financial commitments – they will be more than adequately looked after if you put your heart’s desire first. I’m not suggesting that you be silly about deciding how you want to change your life, I’m merely suggesting that You have to get your priorities right.

And, in setting your priorities, you need to know what would really – and I mean really, really – turn you on. What would you leap out of bed for in the morning? What would turn you on so much that doing it wouldn’t be work but a labour of love? Ask yourself: What is my ideal life? And, most importantly from the point of view of your all-powerful subconscious mind (the part of you that creates your reality), what would your ideal life look like, feel like, sound like, smell like and taste like?

An unusual question? Not at all – the subconscious mind believes in the snapshots that it holds dearly within its inner recesses. These snapshots are not visual, they use all five senses – no surprise, you make sense of the world by using your five senses and it is through these five senses that you were programmed to live the repetitive life that has you so fed up right now. The key is to excite your subconscious mind and a really exciting life will simply follow – oh and by the way, your financial commitments will be more than adequately looked after.