Life Reimagined: Discovering Your New Life Possibilities

You accept the unknown. You tell yourself, “You don’t know if you don’t go.” And then you go.

Time is your most valuable currency. Are you satisfied with how you’re spending your time? Your life? When was the last time you went to sleep at night, content with the feeling that “this was a well-spent day”? When was the last time you got up in the morning, clear about how you wanted to spend your day?

Something I talk about in my second book, Start Where You Are, is finding your button. What is the one thing that turns you on so much that the sun can’t come up soon enough in the morning because you want to go do your thing,

ask yourself questions about how you use your time. Do you reserve your time for things that matter to you? Are you more loyal to your past? Or are you forming a new, powerful loyalty to what you want to have happen in your future?

What Is a Trigger? Another word for a trigger is a wake-up call—a conscious choice or an external event that disrupts the comfortable status quo of our lives. It’s a moment when the game changes, and we have to adapt to the new game.

In reality, change happens the other way around. Doing comes first, knowing second. As you do something—start your exploration, get out and look around, gather impressions and information—you start to know what it is that you really want to do. Doing precedes knowing, it turns out.

Sounding Board

convene imaginary meetings and have imaginary conversations.

Here are two questions to help you get unstuck: “Starting where you are, what would be the simplest first step you could take?” And “Who is someone who could take that first step with you?