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I come across so many people who want more out of life. I talk to lots of people who feel that they want something different but they’ve no idea what that ‘different’ might be. Plenty of people are simply not happy where they are – whether it’s because their stuck in an unloving relationship, they hate their job or, perhaps, they’ve simply been doing the same job for so long that they’re getting nothing out of it anymore. And often, those who take the route of personal development, want more out of life but they don’t know what that ‘more’ is.

Do you want more from your life? If you do, you need to have some idea of what more means for you. There’s no point in longing for something else when you’ve no idea what that something else might look like and feel like. To get what you want out of life, you’ve to know what you want.

In a recent conversation with a client who has been working in the same job for over a decade, I was struck by the extent to which she had no idea whatsoever of what she wanted to do in life. She was looking at her options from the normal narrow-minded perspective of her perceived strengths and weaknesses, her previous experience and, most chillingly, her perceived need to pay the bills. You might consider those last few words to be rather strange – bills are real, they have to be paid. But unless you’re complete idiot, you’d never do something that, from a position of financial comfort, would jeopardise your ability to meet your commitments.

However, our commitments always seem to come uppermost in our minds. Recent research that suggests that the normal person is obsessed with money and fearful of not having enough of it (whatever enough might be). Forget your financial commitments – they will simply look after themselves if you put your heart’s desire first. I’m not suggesting that you be reckless about deciding how you want to change your life, I’m simply suggesting that you need to view your priorities in a completely different light.

To set your priorities, you need to know what would really – and I mean really, really – excite you. What would make you leap out of bed each and every morning? What would excite you so much that doing it wouldn’t be work but a labour of love? Ask yourself: What is my ideal life? And, most importantly from the point of view of your all-powerful subconscious mind (the part of your mind that creates your reality), what would your ideal life look like, feel like, sound like, smell like and taste like?

A strange question? No way – the subconscious mind believes in the snapshots that it holds dearly within its inner recesses. These snapshots are five-sensory – after all, you make sense of the world by using your five senses and it is through these five senses that you were programmed to live the repetitive life that has you so disillusioned right now. If you turn on your subconscious, a really exciting life will follow effortlessly – oh and by the way, your financial commitments will be more than adequately catered for.

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