The secret to having life you desire is hidden in your daily routine. As saying goes, "if you keep doing what you've always done, you'll keep getting what you've always gotten". In issue #2, I discussed importance of planning as a factor in achieving your goals. As part of your planning, I suggested incorporating "ten habits" in your schedule. In this issue I am going to focus on ten habits and how they can help you realize your dreams. To find out more, please read on...

At heart we are all creatures of habit. To change our lives, we must change our routines. As many psychological studies and best-selling self-help books have shown us, successful people have different habits than unsuccessful people. For us to live our lives to fullest, we must adopt those thoughts and actions that serve us and let go of those that don't.

You’ve probably heard this said, or said it yourself sometime, “I just realised how precious life is.” Maybe you heard it when a relative died or maybe you said it after an accident or some other emotional event, but did you stop to consider grander meaning to what you say…

What if every experience in your life is sent to you so you can understand who you are and what your life is all about?

Just for a moment, consider possibilities within that question.

What if it were true, would you be prepared to pay more attention to events in your life and meaning behind them. If you’re not satisfied with your situation in life and have an issue or two you’d rather not handle then please read on – humour me, author of a thriller, a public speaker and writer of personal development books and newsletters.

It took a bump on head to make me pay attention to issues in my life. And when I say bump, I mean a fourteen foot drop… head-first… onto concrete!

I don’t recommend it!

But worse than bang on head – concussion, a few broken bones, nine stitches and colossal bruising – was fact that I lived… and that meant I had to pay attention to things I’d been ignoring.

My life changed quickly – divorce, change of homes, selling my business – it literally turned on its head in a matter of weeks – and before I knew it husband father, business partner in me had all be stripped away and I’d been left a shadow of myself wondering who I was and what I was doing. But this is when something magical happened.

A man I met – a man from other side of world, a man who I travelled over two hundred miles from where I lived to meet quite by chance – and he said something quite profound to me. It shaped my life from that day on.

‘Learn to live with your self’, he told me. It sounded like great advice, but pretty quickly I discovered a floor in his idea… With all issues I had to deal with I certainly had no idea who I was anymore. And that was when an elegant blonde from Germany crossed my path…

And when she disappeared from my sight I felt a pang in my stomach that I should not have felt. Let me explain.

I had been browsing inside a bookstore, looking through my favourite section as clock ticked down and store manager spoke in my ear. ‘Can you make your way to till,’ he said. I did as he asked, unaware that his request was going to be beginning of a life purpose lesson and answer to who I was.