What a question, huh? I mean to live confidently, to flourish, not to live in fear, getting paid to ‘do’ a role you’re passionate about.
Is it just a lovely ‘idea’?
How realistic is it?
Because when it comes down to it, the reality for many is the phrase ‘I’ve got to pay the bills’ always wins out over passions, purpose, potential and possibilities.
And that stings. The trap of being stuck with ‘this is the life I created and there is nothing (or it’s going to be hard) I can do to change it’.
And hey, it’s probably the truth that you don’t hate every area of your life, but you do feel and know that something is missing.
Do you lie awake at night with the ’3am nightmares’: lost, fearful and scared that the way you’re living your life today is going to be the same tomorrow, next month, next year?
Perhaps you get up, make a drink, and sit for a minute. Thoughts racing. You grab a pen and write down a few words, you’ve been here before, many times.
It’s not that you haven’t tried to change in the past, you have, but ‘Life’ always takes over.
If only you had some ‘space’ to work it all out. Wishing you didn’t have all the ‘other stuff’ to deal with so you could focus and work on you.
After 10 minutes, that doesn’t work so you nip online. You know there is more for you, that you’re here for a much bigger reason. You know you cannot live ‘this way’ for much longer.
Is Now The Time to Rethink and Redesign Your Life and Work?
Hi my name is Dawn Barclay and this site is about helping you flourish and live confidently, creating your own ‘remarkable’ at work and play, supporting you to get paid for something meaningful and assisting you to grow, develop, to get past limits and self sabotaging behaviour.
And we do it with plenty of fun, no woowoo or kumbayaa.
Most people who stop this way have tried before to make those massive changes, maybe you have too, yet they always stopped.
Not because they weren’t capable or didn’t have the ability, usually because they didn’t have the support, right information, or encouragement.
What do you really need?
Perhaps you want to be the person who is confident, full of high self esteem, feeling worthy, happy, and not afraid of what others say, their opinions, or judgements. Do you want to take your big ideas, goals and plans and just run with them, without the fear of failing, falling, or being ridiculed.
What’s happening right now?
Do you jump from one thing to the next, do you talk a lot but never actually make anything happen.
Do you consistently say you’re ‘waiting for the right time to begin” or make up other excuses, because deep down you’re scared.
Do you get analysis paralysis, stopped, stuck or sidetracked?
Have you never really paused and took the time to focus on you and work at figuring out what your passions are, where you excel.
Perhaps you’ve developed perfectionism, or the ‘not ready yet’ approach to life.
Are you scared that it’s too late?
Inside, when you’re alone with your thoughts, plans and dreams, you can’t help but think to yourself you’re ‘not worthy’, ‘good enough’, ‘clever enough’, and on it goes, you talk the talk to the external world but can’t or haven’t had the right support, until now, to make your ideas happen.
Take a little breathing space
Most people arrive here with a ‘need’: you aren’t just a set of eyeballs staring at a computer screen! You’re alive.
You’re real.
You’re a person with a story, a past, and amazing life experience.
But I do know what it feels like to be in ‘that place’ where life you have created is not the one that fits anymore.
It’s like not being able to find a lost set of keys. Anxiety sets in. Panic. Feelings of ‘this cannot be it’. What happens? We operate in crisis mode. I encourage you to pause. To take a little time. To step back a bit (and get the help if you need it.)
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Your career, if it’s not going to plan, and you know a shift or transition is on the cards, and your not sure where to start please read this section of career articles.
If you think nobody is able to help you right now, then please read The Biggest Myths or Life Missing Lessons.
See you in there
