Life isn’t a dress rehearsal

First Published 21 July 2022

I wrote this statement last week and have been pondering it ever since – I do love a good ponder…  😊

It doesn’t mean we only have one chance, but it does mean we only have one life – so what are we going to do with all of those chances?

On a call this week I was asked where I want my business to go and what I actually want in life.  My answer was pretty vague – even to my own ears… Another conversation I had was with someone who had completed a manuscript and had been holding off sending it to ‘the dream’ agent.  This all just hammered home that perhaps I have been treating life like a dress rehearsal.

So – I am now going to embark on a bit of deep inner work that I have been putting off for a wee bit too long.  While I go do that – I am going to invite you to go deep too:

• What are you putting off to do tomorrow?
• What are you avoiding in life?
• What are you doing for others that you just don’t want to do?
• What you not doing, due to fear of upsetting someone else, that you really want to do?
• Where are you ‘giving your power away’?
• Where are you not speaking your truth?
• What are you saying yes to that you really want to say no to?
• Likewise – what are you saying no to that you really want to say yes to?
• What are you making excuses for? 

I am not ‘trying to talk you into’ quitting a job/relationship/course/enter your own scenario here.  All I am asking, is that you take some time to self reflect: where in your life are you not totally aligned with you?

And once you work it out – I invite you to take one small action to move you towards where you want to be.  Could be as simple as sending that e-mail that you have been putting off or looking at the vacancies pages of your dream company to work for – that’s a step in itself, you can have update your CV as an action for the next day.  Just take an action.

Fingers crossed by this time next week I will have a little of that elusive clarity that I keep halfheartedly looking for – and you will be closer to one of your goals/dreams too…?  

If you would like support then do please reach out – I have loads of tips and techniques to get this work done (I’ve just been avoiding doing it on myself this month!  I’m going to blame the post holiday blues – that’s totally the reason… 🤪 that changes now!)

I’m going to wrap up there, giving myself a wee pat on the back for not heading into any deep theatre based metaphors/analogies!

Come book a call and let me know how you get on, or if it’s easier, just hit the contact button- there are always options 😊