So everybody always says follow your heart – I don’t really think it is following, first and foremost it is CONNECTING to your heart – once the connection has been made your tummy will tell you what you are doing is not sustainable, it’s stupid and impossible to achieve…. Don’t listen your tummy…
How do we prepare for a journey…a passion…a purpose? My journey after leaving the UK brought me to Cape Town, the city that always sleeps :) , yet the wind never does….
Working for a company that gives me a lot of opportunity to learn from the best and meet the best, people like Tony Humphrey, and for example, this morning Lewis Pugh – environmental campaigner, maritime lawyer and endurance swimmer. Soft on the eye and exceptionally inspirational I was once again inspired to LIVE and LIVE FOR WHAT YOU BELIEVE IN! I cannot possibly explain everything I think and feel at this moment (but taking a week of work just to think about the last hour would be beneficial). The main light bulb moment for me is to not lose focus on your dream, or purpose, or the things that keeps your buckets full in the end of the day (the bucket story is for another day) .
How do you keep your focus on a goal?
1. Break the motions down in manageable chunks – Lewis had to swim 1km in the Arctic sea to prove a point, he broke it down into 100m sections and took it step by step (PLEASE READ HIS BOOK – “Achieving the Impossible”)
2. Take a step back and remember the significant moments in your life – what have you already done towards this moment and are you willing to give that up?
3. …and then… walk to the end of your life and look at what you did…..
Then get on the horse and do what you have to: MAKE UP YOUR MIND and don’t prepare for failure! - “There is nothing as powerful as a made-up mind” – Lewis G Pugh.
PS. Your goal doesn’t have to be to swim the arctic sea and safe the planet, it can be as simple as going to the gym or to start a garage band :) - as I said, whatever keeps your buckets full…
The buckets: let me tell the story – I have this friend that is really emotional and always talking about stability and instability and worrying about things that doesn’t exist because her thoughts are too much for her brain (we are very much alike) - (ek’s lief vir jou tjom as jy die lees) – and she told me about your little buckets. All of us have little buckets that have to be kept full, these are the things that makes us, us. For example I have a creative bucket, a social bucket , a physical workout bucket (these buckets are normally not about work things :) ) … as soon as a bucket gets too low or empty, you start feeling that something is missing, you are not you because your one bucket is empty… morel of the story – get to know your buckets and keep them full!
