still Floundering?

I was talking with my husband the other day…the deep almost philosophical kind of conversations one can only have with certain people in your life.  We were talking about Legacy and what we want our legacy to be.   It really made me start thinking again about what it is that I want to do with my life…what am I meant to do with my life.  Don’t get me wrong…I am very happy with my life, I  really have it all, but if it all ended tomorrow how would my life be remembered?  How do  I want it to  be remembered?  What do I want to be remembered for?  Am I living to my fullest potential?

Tough questions to answer on a good day, even harder to  answer when you are confused, unsure and unfocused.  I have heard of, and read a few self written Obituaries, and I can understand why people would take this task on, but I still don’t understand  the how? and more so the what?

How do  I  find find my true personal strengths, and how do I  use them to find what I  am meant to  do?  It seems like a ferocious circle.  You  hear of the people who  follow their  passion to  victory, but how do they know their true passion? Every time I think about it, I get more  and more  confused.

My husband told me about a program called the Kolbe A Index, which he did a while back with his business coaching group.  It helped him understand his strengths and areas of needs much better.  I am going to look into this and find out what it might  say about me…Wish me luck!!

Something to Ponder …

Just a few of My Favourite Quotes … They always make me think alittle…

All our dreams can come true –if we have the courage to pursue them. – Walt Disney

 

Persistence is the ability to maintain actions regardless of your feelings. You press on even when you feel like quitting. When you work on any big goal your motivation will wax and wane like the waves hitting the shore. Sometimes you’ll feel motivated, sometimes you won’t. But it’s not your motivation that creates results – it’s your action. 

Persistence allows you to keep taking action even when you don’t feel motivated to do so, and therefore you keep accumulating results. Persistence will ultimately provide its own motivation. If you simply keep taking action, you’ll eventually get results, and results can be very motivating. – Zig Ziglar

 

 It is not about what it is, it’s about what it can become. – Dr. Seuss

Now What??!!

Now What??  Talk about a loaded question.  I have spend the last 2 months working on very specific goals, and working hard at keeping them on target, ensuring and focusing on the achievement of these stated goals, but now that they are done I am left with the feeling of NOW WHAT??

So doing what it is that I always seem to do when I  have questions about something…I turned to the internet for answers. (and I  know I not alone in this practice).  The thing that kept coming up was that I am not alone in  this feeling, in fact it is  very common.  Think about it…you have worked your ass off to get to your goal weight, and you are riding the feeling of success, but what happens next? you did it, you feel great, but over time old habits sneak back in, the gym is not such a priority, you stop thinking  about food the same way you were when you were achieving the goal…and eventually over time the weight starts creeping back, and without  even realizing it you are right back where you  started.  Only now you are twice as pissed off and frustrated, so it becomes even harder to set and achieve that weight loss goal.  Like I said  this is very common.  When we lose focus or do not have a focus, it  is next to  impossible to keep the same intensity.  I am not saying that are people out  there that cannot do it, but they are rare and hard to find, in my opinion.

In my readings this is also common in elite athletes  so what ever you do do not feel discouraged.  It literally happens to everyone.

The way to  fix this is to have new goals in place before the completion  of the previous goals are concluded.  Either by adding an other level to the goal, or have a new goal with a specific starting point.

Where I went wrong is with not having any plan following the 6 week experiment   I  have no idea what is  next and worse no plan.  I  need to re-evaluate things and decide where and what I need to focus  on.