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Issue 92

 15 November 2012

 Greetings!  ,

  

Do you take any job that comes along, or do you wait for the perfect one?

 

This is the kind of dilemna many people who are just starting out in life face. My response? Depends how you see 'where-you-are-in-your-life-now'.

 

When you have a 'I-am-on-a-journey-and-this-is-not-my-destination' mentality, you are more likely to be comfortable taking the first job that comes along. In fact, you are more likely to do that job whole heartedly, and so open up more possibilities for yourself.

 

You cannot get to a destination without taking the journey.

 

Regards,Jaki 

  

Jaki Wasike-Sihanya, Idea to Action Coach

 

 

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WHERE ARE YOU ON YOUR JOURNEY 

   

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man - Heraclitus 

  

self discoveryWherever you are right now, it's a step in the journey to wherever you are going. 

 

 People don't always see it that way.

 

If you were at the end of your journey, you wouldn't have much left to do. Or you would be dead.

 

If you are comfortable being where you are now, look again tomorrow. You may not feel the same.

 

If you don't like where you are, what are you doing about it?

 

Critically, though, the question is, where are you going?

 

People who are in 'the-end-of-journey' frame of mind cannot move ahead simply because there is no 'ahead' for them. As long as they stay in this state they will not summon the energy to go - nowhere!

 

When you are comfortable you celebrate getting here. You look back at the road you have travelled and marvel at what you have accomplished - and so you should! Quickly, though, this can become the 'the-end-of-journey' frame of mind. The attempt to keep the 'I-have-arrived' frame of mind at bay is commonly seen as 'wanting more' and often expressed as 'how much is enough?'

 

Well, it is not about 'enough'. It is about staying motivated to keep on with the journey. Perhaps taking a different road, accumulating different 'more'.

 

When it is enough, it is over.

 

Those who don't like where they are will do everything to get out, or else get mired in the despondency of stagnation. The latter mind set manifests itself as 'it's not for me'; or 'I don't have what it takes'; or 'no one in my family has ever...', and so on.

 

It may be that they don't see the stars, or they don't believe they can reach them.

 

When you determine that you must get moving you signal to all your senses that you will only accept a forward motion. You light a fire to propel you out of the place you don't like.

Will it take you where you want to go?