Everything impacts on everything else

if you spend all your spare time doing things that do little or nothing for you, then I can guarantee you will not achieve those dreams and goals that you say you want to achieve at some point in the future.

For instance, and you knew there was going to be a for instance.... if you have spent some time this weekend and worked out your time equation (see yesterday's edition if you have absolutely no idea what I am talking about) then you will have noticed how little time you actually have to do what YOU want. Everything else is taken up by other people's needs and expectations.

Your employer expects you to turn up at the office and actually do the work that you are being paid to do. But if you don't enjoy what it is you are doing, then you will hate every minute of it, and that will impact on the amount of work that you do, whether you "chuck a sickie" when you are not ill, what time you arrive in the morning, whether you smile and interact with your colleagues, whether you spend all your "free" time when you should be working, answering emails and surfing the net.

But that's not all - what happens when you drag yourself home at the end of your day? You whinge to your partner how bored you are, how so and so did something or other. What usually happens then is you turn to activities that comfort your troubled self. For some of you that may be food, others alcohol, cigarettes or other substances. You may spend every evening in a stupor in front of the television and the reason why is because you are not fulfilled in your job.

So today's task is harder than yesterday's - but extremely important.

The first thing I need you to ask yourself is this - are you happy? Oh I don't mean, you are grinning all the time and pretending that all is well with your world. But if you had to rate your current "life" on a scale of 1 - I would change everything, to 10 - I wouldn't change anything even if I won the lottery. Where would you sit on the scale?

You are going to ask me where I sit on my scale aren't you? Well at the beginning of the week I would say that my life was sitting at about a  3 or 4. But after a meeting with a financial advisor, and being told there was a lot to be done, and we could re-structure everything to give a better way of life for myself and the children, my personal rating went up to about a 5 or 6. You see, for me, money is the biggest factor, and I needed outside help to work out the next steps....The thing is - the expertise had always been there I just chose not to use it in the past.

So as you sit down over the next couple of days and work out your personal rating it is important to know that where you currently is not where you are likely to end up. However - it is up to you where you go next. You can continue to interact with the same people and hear the same stories over and over again. You can choose to read the supermarket magazines and live vicariously through other people. You can choose to overeat and not exercise and then complain how slow your metabolism is - but as you work out what is holding you back - bi it a perceived lack of money, that you feel that you may be carrying too mucj weight or emotional baggage, then you can start to work out the steps you need to take to rectify the problems.

But perhaps the important thing to remember is that everything impacts on everything else. As you start to recognise what is "wrong" with your current position, you will automatically start to rectify the issues. And as things start to change, then additional changes will also occur.  And for those things you can't rectify yourself, you can find other people who can help you.

With many thoughts for today

Elle
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