Freedom

Not being angry, removing this urge to fight back or to hold a grudge.
Instead cherish the time spent as a free human being.
Solving problems I can solve.
Finding my way, my inner voice.

Knowing what you want

In the movie "The Secret" and among several personal development method - the key is usually about knowing what you want.

Obviously if you don't know what you want, you won't get anywhere - just like when you start your day aimlessly, going from one activity to the other without thinking, and when going to bed at night not remembering what you've been doing that day.

Imagine a life where you would go with the flow, being a reactive person, living a life that other people dictates for you, and follow blindly orders, actually that might not necessarily be all that bad ... I'm mean there's no responsibility, no plan, no stress. 

But recently "Knowing what you want in life", for me is like a burning question - (isn't a question that everyone should ask himself?).

When I was a teenager, I was suddenly struck by another question : "What was the meaning of life" (and later became a fan of the Monty Python).

But some years later, I think it's not an achievable goal to try finding the "meaning of life", but the tricky part, the one that requires effort is actually trying to find our particular answer to "what we want in life", in other word to find "our meaning for our life".

But the question is a very challenging one, to know what you want, you must have an understanding of the life you want to live, and the irony is usually you can't because you've never been there yet. 

One of the way usually given in the books are to visualize things.

As an exercise I found out that one way to do this, is to write stories, little stories about what you want, it really helps to visualize and clarify things up.

Let's have an example, let says I want to quit my job and start my own business with my partner (a Tourist shop) - Then it will go like this : 

Mr and Mrs Jones decided to make a difference one day, after they quits their job, they decided to buy a small shop and sell souvenirs, crafted artworks, keychains, little statues, tourists books, self made postcards, and a Tour guide business ...

At this stage already I've found out something potentially new and exciting - I can already visualize the shop, and the number of books, the shelfs etc ... and now get a new idea, putting an online store through a website.