Creating Your Life

We’ve all heard the phrase, “The best way to predict your life is to create it.” But if that’s true, why don’t we all live fabulous, fulfilling lives? Wouldn’t we all “predict” a life of abundance and joy? The hard part, of course, is the “creating” piece. How do we create the life we truly want?

Although it sounds obvious, the first step, which most people (my younger self included) skip completely, is determining what, exactly, it is that we want. We often drift along, taking opportunities that are given to us, but never really pursuing the things we want, and never putting into place a specific plan for achieving those goals.

If you could “start over” or even start from where you are now, and choose to be, do and have whatever you wanted, what would you choose? If you were writing the most audacious Christmas brag letter about your past year, what would it say? If you could stifle that inner critic, and let your inner hero speak from your heart and your head, what would she say?
It can be scary to think this way, because you’re afraid of the disappointment when you “realize” you can’t do those things. But what if you could? How exciting would that be? Would you need external motivators to get you out of bed in the morning to live your life?

You learned to dream big as a child, then had that pounded out of you by “reality.” But wouldn’t it be more fun to turn those big dreams into your reality? To create that life instead of the one you’ve settled for?