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2013. Reflections

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2013. Goodbye. It’s been a good one.  Mostly.

Another year has flown by.  What a year! For me there have been highs, massive highs. There have been lows.  Pretty much nothing in between! A veritable rollercoaster. A true reflection of running your own business.  I feel so much more alive!

And with the end of the year many people reflect on the year. Or the years gone by. “What really matters? What is really important?”

But sometimes, in this haze of conflicting demands, it can be difficult to know exactly what our priorities are.  What exactly is it that matter most?

You need to figure out what is most important to you. Once you understand what that is, nothing else matters.

But how do you do that?

Ask yourself this:

At the end of your life what do you want to have accomplished? What will make you look back and say, “I’m proud I did that”?

It will be different for every one of us.

We each enjoy different things because we have different definitions of what is important to us. The truth is that there is no single correct answer as to what is or should be most important to us. Some may find that money and/or fame is most important to them. Some may believe that it is doing what you love. Others believe that it is being with whom you love. There is no right answer. It’s what you as an individual find to be most important to you that is correct. We are who we are and shouldn’t look to others in hopes of them giving us the right answer. We must find it ourselves.

What do your answers tell you about your real priorities in life?

Was 2013 the year you took those first steps to leading the life you want? Was it before then? Will 2014 be the year? When will it be?

Do you know what it is you want? Because when you work out what really matters to you, you will also know what is not important. And you can cut that shit out. It is not important. Don’t waste your life on these things.

For me the phrase below is a good code to aim for:

At the end of the day, what really matters in life is not that much. If you laughed more than you cried, smiled more than you frowned, loved more than you hated, saved more than you destroyed, solved more problems than you caused, told more truth than you lied, caused more tears of joy than tears of sorrow, let your loved ones how much you value them and had a pretty damn good time doing what you love to do, then it was a good day.

There is just one thing that remains to be said. Have a very Merry Christmas and an even better New Year. Here’s to 2014. Let our New Years Resolution be this:

Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, Do it. Then do it again.

And Don’t Ever Give up.

Together we can make 2014 ROCK!

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The thrill of living to your full potential

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So often (probably too often) we find ourselves rushing around, trying to meet everyone’s demands. “I can do what I want later…plenty of time”. The days start to turn into weeks, the weeks into months, months into years and, before we know it, we’ve woken up one day and WTF? Where did the time go?

WE need to take some time out and ask a question that is temptingly easy to ignore:  

Are we living up to our potential?

We need to ask this question. As only by asking it can we arrive at an answer.

And if the answer is no—that we aren’t living up to our own potential—then we’ve got to make some changes, and fast, because the thrill of fulfilling your own potential is so worth it, in every sense.

Because when we aren’t, we’re bound to experience prolonged feelings of anxiety, angst and disappointment—sometimes without ever knowing why. Trust me. I’ve been there.

And it ain’t fun.

I remember sitting at my desk in my old 9-5 job. Looking out of the window thinking “is this it?”, “is this what I worked so hard for?” 

And why was I there?

Because that’s where I thought my potential was. That’s where I had been taught my potential was. That’s where I had been falsely led to believe my potential was—through years of schooling, teachers, parents and the media, all telling me that I could do “be somebody” and do “big things.” – because to them,   “being somebody” and “doing big things” meant surrendering myself  to the system, making someone else a huge profit and doing what I was told until I retired.

Is that what people thought my potential was?! A resource (human resources anyone?) to making other people money and being paid a small margin of the profit.  Provided I was good and did what I was told that is.

I wanted more. To do anything meaningful I had to start to tap into my own potential.  I had to jump from the nest and make a leap into the unknown. I won’t lie, it’s scary!

And you know what?

I was flying! I was alive! I was jumping out of bed, full of energy. Full of excitement. Ready to live fully. Revelling in the opportunity to live life to the fullest.  To live by my rules.  ‘Cause they’re the best!

I look forward to each day. I truly feel I am working toward my potential and this is just the tip of the iceberg. I am working on what I enjoy and because of this I am good at my job.  DP Web Development is just the start.

And it feels amazing! It is a mixture of pride, excitement, passion. Some anticipation and butterflies in the stomach.  Truly you should experience this.

And you can. Really you can.

Are you living to your true potential?  Because that is where life truly starts!

Tell me your stories

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GO FOR IT!