In fact most people drift along in life taking whatever is dished out to them.

They cannot 'be bothered' investing any extra time, money or energy in themselves. It's much easier to float with crowd.

Take Stock of Yourself We're half way through another year. Have you achieved your goals this year? Have you made positive changes in areas of relationships, finances, career, health and fitness etc.

Are you better off this year, than last year? Are you moving forwards or backwards in your life? Are you happy?

Are You Happy? This is an interesting question to ask yourself. Are you going through motions of living day-day or are you excited about where you are heading?

The Final Word If you want to be leader of your life rather than follower, you'll need to take action. And when do you take action? Right now.

If you don't know where to head off to, get yourself a life coach. You will be amazed at how quickly you will move forward in right direction.

Don't need help? Can do it by yourself? That's great. Then what are you waiting for?

Get moving today.

Lorraine Pirihi, principal of The Office Organiser is Australia's Personal Productivity Specialist. She is also a Business and Life Coach.

Take action today! Contact Lorraine to discuss how she can help you on (613) 9532 5497 or email lorraine@office-organiser.com.au

Mary was working on her computer when task alarm rang reminding her to ring her Grandmother. This was not first time she had set this reminder up. In fact it had been appearing over last month and each time bell rang, she put off ringing and set another date. It would have been easy to pick up phone and call her grandmother, yet she chose to procrastinate and reset alarm again.

However this time when it rang, she stopped in her tracks. She read note which said 'Phone Grandma'. A wave of sadness engulfed her…Mary's Grandmother had died three weeks earlier!

The Final Word Mary shared this story with me and was happy for me to write about it so that maybe someone reading this will stop procrastinating and ring their grandad, husband, brother, sister, mother or other loved one before it is too late.

Mary is really feeling pain and that profound incident has turned her around.

Reminds me of story of old man and dog: Old man sitting on porch on rocking chair, his dog next to him is whining and howling .. another person walks past and asks "what's matter with your dog?" and old man replies, "oh, he's just sitting on a nail" … stranger asks "so, why doesn't he just get off?" .. to which old man replies "well, it obviously doesn't hurt enough".

Lorraine Pirihi, principal of The Office Organiser is Australia's Personal Productivity Specialist. She is also a Business and Life Coach.

Take action today! Contact Lorraine to discuss how she can help you on (613) 9532 5497 or email lorraine@office-organiser.com.au