Will you have a Great Life - or a mediocre one?
Can you answer that one? Do you even know what a Great Life means to you? Is it fame and fortune? Love and a big family? The ability to impact and influence people on any scale? Or a combination of all of these things?You might remember the post I did a little while back about Larry Smith's TED Talk (Chances are you will not have a great career, unless...) where he talks about most people being afraid to discover their passion, and few people who discover it being willing to pursue it. Well this question is not about career, it is about your life in general - and it is not necessarily about an arbitrary and external concept of "greatness", but what a great means in the context of your life. In other words, what would an excellent or above average life be for you?What's this all about?I ask this question because I have been pondering it quite a bit in the last year. It aligns with the work I've been doing on choices and decision making - which came from the shocking realisation that I had been a passive decision maker in my own life for way too long. Which all makes sense, with no idea what a Great Life would look like for me, why would I take the risks in making decisions when I didn't know where I wanted to go? Surely this is familiar for some of you.
Last night I gave a talk to a small group of mumpreneurs here in Hobart. It was the first time that I had talked about what I've been putting together, and so I thought I'd share a little of it with you today. Mainly what I thought I would share is the page I put together yesterday, my notes for the talk if you like. I decided that the bullet point list wouldn't do this time, I needed to capture it in a different way.Start with the elements of great and work around clockwise; this is where my brain is currently going with this topic. I found it powerful to understand these things, and knowing it has definitely allowed a shift in my confidence to make the big decisions, as well as my courage to take action once that decision has been made.Starting to come togetherThis is all coming together in an interesting way for me, and my hope is that you can get something out of all of this as well. If you've been around for a little while you will know that there is a free resource about helping you become a more active decision maker in your own life (called Living an Aligned Life) - you get access to it when you join my community. You also get my Finding Your Way Home manifesto, which adds to this discussion as well. You can sign up through the resources page, or in the right menu here.What do you think about the story in the image? Is there an aspect of it you would like me to expand on? Do you think I'm off the mark? Or can you see how it relates to your life as well?