Learn How to Follow Your Heart and Do what you Love

What a difference it has made to have the courage to hand in my resignation letter and decide to live my life. The life I have designed and created. The life I am excited to live because its life on my terms. 

Don’t get me wrong, its definitely not easy, its really hard. You start to realise that where you are in life right now is as a result of all the small decision you have made along the way. If you want to be somewhere else, to achieve something different. Then you need to take responsibility for this change. The important part is to have the discipline to do the hard work even when you don’t feel like it. 

Be Ready for Change

The idea that I had for my life when I quit my job is very different to what I am doing now and how I am living my life. But I never would have got to where I am if I hadn’t set a goal and started working towards it. Its only after you have experienced something that you really understand if its what you want. If you don’t take that first step towards a new future one year from now, ten years from now you will be in the exact same place. Would you be happy with this?

Then why are you so afraid of change?

Do you have the passion to make your vision come true?

Vision

Once you have your vision, once you can see it with absolute clarity every single little detail you will need all the passion you have to keep at it. Inspiration is good but it never lasts. You need your passion to keep you going when the going gets tough. When you start to feel the resistance. Your passion will need to be the one pushing you from behind to keep going. You are probably used to your parents pushing you or your teacher or lecturer pushing you. Now its up to you and you need to call on your passion to help you push yourself. Push yourself enough to make your vision become a reality. This is where you need to have a deep understanding of why you want your vision. Why do you truly want the life you have envisioned. Understand your why and it will be clear to you that any obstacle or resistance won’t last long. You will overcome it because your why is stronger than anything that comes up against your new life.

Keep Raising your standards

If you don’t know what Progressive overload is then you need to start googling. I needed to when I first got told about it. If you keep doing the same things it will just get easier you need to use progressive overload to your advantage so that you can keep growing. Keep pushing the boundaries. If you aren’t growing then you standing still and that’s not a good thing.

You need to keep raising your standards so that you keep having to reach for your goals. You don’t want it to be easy. If its easy you will lose interest. You want it to challenge you just enough. If you get tired rest just long enough to recover and no more then try again. 

Do the push ups

If I ask you to do as many push-ups as you can do. How many do you think you could do until you collapse and you feel like you have nothing left in you?  20? 30? 50?  Then what if I asked you to rest for a bit and asked you to do it again?

Do you think you could do some more push ups? Of course you could. How come you can do more? Because you have more in you than you think!

Never lower your standards always keep them high and keep making them higher.