It Requires Energy to Move to a Different Place
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Jim White
Jim L. White, PhD is a President and CEO, Senior Consultant/Executive Coach and Workshop Leader with over thirty years of international business experience. He is the founder of JL White International, Inc., a management consulting and leadership development organization dedicated to “Inspiring Excellence in People”. He is author of the book What's My Purpose? and the What's My Purpose? Life Mastery program
By Jim White
Published on 08/17/2008
It requires energy to move to a different place, psychologically, than
you are at right now. It is easy to just let things be and to continue
to buy into the way you are. If you don’t conform to the expectations
that others have about you and that you, in fact, have about yourself,
then what are you going to do? Who are you going to be?
It requires energy to move to a different place, psychologically, than you are at right now.
It is easy to just let things be and to continue to buy into the way you are.
If you don’t conform to the expectations that others have about you and that you, in fact, have about yourself, then what are you going to do? Who are you going to be?
Spirit and determination are required to change things around in your life.
Perhaps it requires that you develop attitude about the challenges facing you for change.
Change isn’t easy; growth is always hard, but passing up your opportunities to make the changes you need to make and experience the growth that is waiting for you will eventually kill your spirit.
You don’t have to look far to see bitter old people who look back over their lives and see that it was all for nothing.
They never found the path to joy, fulfillment, and genuine productivity.
Now in the twilight of their lives they look forward with dread towards the grave knowing that their lives amounted to nothing important. They leave nothing behind. Their pathway never took them through the sense of joy and fulfillment that would have been theirs if they had found their dreams.
On the other hand, we all know elderly people who approach the end of their lives with perfect peacefulness that comes from knowing that they had found their purpose and lived it with passion.
Leonardo da Vinci pointed out a profound truth, “As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.”
Learn to make decisions based upon this higher view of your life. Avoid taking actions and making decisions on the basis of any feelings of guilt, inadequacy, or unhappiness laid on us by other people.
Perhaps your decisions will displease some people, but don’t let their disapproval drive you away from doing what you know will be right for you.
Stop worrying about what the world thinks of you and of the decisions you make.
The fact is that the world is less interested in what you do than you imagine it is.
The destination is not the ultimate aim. The joy comes from the journey. Purpose is bound up in the process.
Bon voyage!
Jim White, PhD - from his blog.
Author & Creator of What’s My Purpose?
It is easy to just let things be and to continue to buy into the way you are.
If you don’t conform to the expectations that others have about you and that you, in fact, have about yourself, then what are you going to do? Who are you going to be?
Spirit and determination are required to change things around in your life.
Perhaps it requires that you develop attitude about the challenges facing you for change.
Change isn’t easy; growth is always hard, but passing up your opportunities to make the changes you need to make and experience the growth that is waiting for you will eventually kill your spirit.
You don’t have to look far to see bitter old people who look back over their lives and see that it was all for nothing.
They never found the path to joy, fulfillment, and genuine productivity.
Now in the twilight of their lives they look forward with dread towards the grave knowing that their lives amounted to nothing important. They leave nothing behind. Their pathway never took them through the sense of joy and fulfillment that would have been theirs if they had found their dreams.
On the other hand, we all know elderly people who approach the end of their lives with perfect peacefulness that comes from knowing that they had found their purpose and lived it with passion.
Leonardo da Vinci pointed out a profound truth, “As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.”
Learn to make decisions based upon this higher view of your life. Avoid taking actions and making decisions on the basis of any feelings of guilt, inadequacy, or unhappiness laid on us by other people.
Perhaps your decisions will displease some people, but don’t let their disapproval drive you away from doing what you know will be right for you.
Stop worrying about what the world thinks of you and of the decisions you make.
The fact is that the world is less interested in what you do than you imagine it is.
The destination is not the ultimate aim. The joy comes from the journey. Purpose is bound up in the process.
Bon voyage!
Jim White, PhD - from his blog.
Author & Creator of What’s My Purpose?
