It's been quite a week really

Monday was the storm of the century and you can still the effects almost a week later, the clean up is happening and it's going to take a while.

Monday I also managed to re-damage my left hand - circuit class at the gym includes a boxing component - and I hit the pad incorrectly - result - ligament damage.

The next 4 days was a break away from home and planned a long time ago to celebrate my partners birthday - 4 days of travelling down and around the SouthWest of Western Australia.

So why am I telling you this?

• Well if the storm had hit a bit later, had we had a bit more damage to the property than we did, then I wouldn't have been able to go away.
• If my hand had been broken rather than just damaged it would have put a major dent in any plans we had - and for a while - not just an inconvenience for a couple of weeks of strapping it up, taking the pain killers because - not least of which - it hurts to type now, and as a writer that is a MAJOR inconvenience. How badly would it have affected my life had it been broken?

I spoke earlier about "drought breakers" - what would it take for you to make some major changes to your life. Well some things you can deal with and some you can't - sometimes you do have to make changes to your plans on the fly. The trouble is most people never experience the kind of calamity that means you NEED to do something. Life changing experiences MAKE us want to change things, they INSIST you do something. If your home and family were threatened - you WOULD do something. If you were injured - you WOULD ensure you get treatment.

Which is why most people never achieve their goals - they are simply not what we call life threatening, things are not that bad we NEED to do something - they are sort of like - well it would be nice but it doesn't matter if I don't achieve them.

If you do want to make some major changes to the way your life turns out, you are going to have to do something major - granted that "major" step may be achieved in many different ways and over a long period of time - don't beleive me - think of the grand canyon. It took time and persistence to get to that point - and it is still changing.

Don't focus on what you have now, focus on what you want to have and you have the beginnings of potential change. Then like the water carving the grand canyon take one small step towards that end point. Or take one giant leap - after all you cannot jump a chasm in 2.