When I coach clients who are looking to “do something different,” AKA: get a different job/ career, etc…. I often ask them, “Do you want to Create Something Amazing?”
They kind of stare at me and say shakily, “Yes, yes I do.”
You see nobody is seeking to go get another job. What they really want, what we all really want, is to finally start doing that thing that lights us up, every damn day. We don’t just want a paycheck–we want a purpose. We don’t just want some structure to our day–we want a spiritual connection to what we do. We want to start working to Create Something Amazing. We want to be doing the work of our life…the stuff that makes us excited, happy, fulfilled, grateful, connected.
We look to our college education or our work experience, and many of us cannot rely on those things to help us to know what it is we “are supposed to be doing in this life.” Because this feels like a tricky concept or process for most of us, I’ve got three questions that can get to the end goal of what you may end up creating. Not the “means goal” (or the “how do I do this thing?” goal), but the “what do I truly want at the end?” These, perhaps, are the most important questions to answer as you uncover what’s next for you.
Here are the 3 Big Questions to ask yourself:
1). What Do I Want to Experience in Life?
2). How do I Want to Grow?
3). How do I Want to Contribute?
Once you answer these 3 questions–which includes writing about each one–consider creating a Vision Board to reflect these answers. Vision Boards are created with pictures from magazines or printed pictures glued to a board. They represent what is important for your life now and in the future. When we have a Vision of what’s next for us, we can begin to take big and little steps to live into this life.
How will you know if you are living an Amazing Life unless you have know what that looks like already?
Here is a picture of my Vision Board for 2017:
