Focusing your Energies: Tip #4 Back to the Basics
We’re on Day 4 of a 30-day set of tools to get us focused on our abilities to create a more successful life.
Today, right now, I challenge you to pen a list of five goals that you want to achieve and that you feel happy about. Feel free to list them in the comments section of this blog entry!
These are five specific items that you might keep deep inside, or perhaps you have them posted and available for all to see, or maybe you carry them in your heart, close to your chest. These are some basic parts of you being you that you definitely want to keep alive.
They may be dreams about Places to Visit.
It might be an itinerary of My Perfect Day.
Possibly it is an easy Top 20 Things to Do With My Life.
Is it a list of What I am Grateful For?
Perhaps your “back to basics” list contains languages you’d like to learn, or an instrument you’ve always wanted to play, or perhaps a hobby or sport that you intend to take up.
Whatever this list contains: go ahead and write it down. Get the ideas out of your mind and commit them to paper (or to this site, or somewhere visible). If I told you that you were definitely going to achieve it, what would it be?
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While you’re writing this, I want you to know that today, just for this one moment, I encourage you to dream big about what your list contains. Like Donald Trump says, “Whatever it is, I like thinking big. I always have. To me it’s very simple: if you’re going to be thinking anyway, you might as well think big.”
Go ahead and astound yourself with something that you want inside of you: something that makes you excited and giggly and happy. You have all my support in dreaming and thinking and smiling about this list of goals.
And again, just for this moment, don’t let issues like your pocketbook or your job or your relationship or your health detract from your joy. This is simply a list of basic items that you feel you need in order to fully express who you are.
Write out your list. Next, post it on a piece of paper close to your desk, or on your fridge, or near the sink. Posting it is your first step to saying that a dream exists inside of you that you will create into a reality.
Being human, we tend to only see what is directly in front of us: this might be our morning and afternoon commute, it might be the breakfast, lunch, and dinner we are habituated to, it might be our usual regimen, which may or may not be on auto-pilot: wake up, brush teeth, comb hair, get ready, eat, go to work, coffee, lunch, work more, go home, watch TV, go to bed. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat.
So much of our daily choices have been narrowed to small items like what to wear or what to-do item to work on, that we forget that all of our choices are in front of us, even choices that we might not see right in front of our face.
For example, we might be working at a job that we chose many years ago, but didn’t check in and make sure that this was a job we loved and wanted to continue doing.
Or, we might be engaged in a relationship that simply came along, without us being active and engaged in choosing it.
The dream list is a way for us to get “back to the basics” of what matters to us, in our lives, as well as the things that we wish to aspire to. When we post our dreams and really look at them, then we put our current environment and existence into perspective, and we realize that we have the option to live in pursuit of something beyond our current existence.
Life is a beautiful, treasured gift, and our dreams list helps us retain our perspective, get back to our basic nature, and gives us a lift when our day seems blah.
Thanks for writing this list: it’s back to the basics of what we want, and I appreciate you taking time to honor your internal compass that is pointing you towards the items on this list. The sky’s the limit!
Monica S. Flores is an author, educator, and speaker.
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