Design Your Perfect LifestyleWritten by Davis Wood
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e) Career For this exercise, remember you don't 'need' a career. Assume you have plenty of money, right? So in your perfect world, is there a job you would enjoy? What would you create or make? What service would you provide. What kinds of things have you enjoyed in past careers, or what do you think you would be good at? What kind of people would you work with? What hours would you work? Work from home, or in a really funky office building with a slide down middle? f) Enjoyment What do you do in your ideal lifestyle? Garden? Paint? Fish? Bushwalk? When you gather with friends or family, what do you do? Do you travel? Where? How often? What do you do when traveling? g) A Cause/Purpose If rest of your life was perfect and handled, to whom would you contribute? To your family? The environment? The Community? Child abuse victims? Politics? What do you strongly believe in? What do you love? What do you hate? How would you contribute? Donate money, time, brain power? What legacy would you like to leave behind when you die? The first, and most important step, is to create picture. This alone increases chance of it happening without you doing anything. However, if you're willing to take action, and are up for game of creating your perfect lifestyle, •pick an area to start on •write top ten actions required to handle that area •do two this week! Enjoy, David.
David Wood is a Certified Life Coach. He helps coaches, consultants, speakers and trainers to build their businesses via his popular ebook at http://10SuperCoaches.com and his audio ebook at http://www.FirstFiftyClients.com. Get his new Free Download “50 Power Questions” and popular monthly ezine for clients and coaches (now over 15,000 subscribers) at: http://www.solutionbox.com/freedownload.htm
| | HappinessWritten by Laurent Grenier
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Some will say that happiness in its so-called fullest sense leaves something more to be desired: power to make this happiness infinite: immeasurably great and unlimited in duration. Among them, some will choose path of faith, which allegedly leads to a heavenly afterlife, whereas some will choose path of reason, which admits of no rosy belief based on wishful thinking and unbridled trust. This path leads nowhere as far as beyond is concerned, or rather somewhere that is unknown – presumably so different from what is known that it totally exceeds our ability to conceive of its nature. I count among these proponents of reason, these infidels, to whom only source of meaning is not a paradisiacal destination, whose existence is supported by no credible evidence, but journey itself, a rugged and uphill journey to be sure, with an abundance of twists and turns, some of which are propitious, others not. This journey is well worth trouble, in my opinion. It is so independently of above-mentioned destination, which people are free to pursue blindly or regard with skepticism (and with detachment to boot, in best case scenario). It is all about dignity of living and loving and pleasure of succeeding in these difficult assignments. From this perspective, purpose of life is none other than life itself, in partnership with our fellow creatures; and happiness is made possible – within certain limits – by our striving to achieve this worthy, albeit humble purpose. The limits imposed upon worldly happiness may initially stick in our craw, but after due consideration, as we realize that life without these limits would be death, we accept them, and better still we welcome them. Life is by definition a dynamic state that presupposes a perpetual tension between desires and their satisfaction. Render this satisfaction absolute, you resolve this tension and consequently reduce life to nothing; i.e., something as inert as a stone. And this nothing – this inert something – is death, as I just pointed out. Not a brilliant prospect in eyes of a life lover!
Laurent Grenier’s writing career spans over twenty years. During this time he has broadened and deepened his worldview, by dint of much reflection and study, and in the end has crafted A REASON FOR LIVING, his best work to date. Official web site: http://laurentgrenier.com/ARFL.html
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