Does your
heart ache with the need to do something? Maybe you want to write,
paint, travel, care for the sick, or move house. You want to follow
what your heart is telling you but maybe the daily grind gets in the
way. Maybe you're scared or stuck in a rut or don't know where to
start.
Take a deep
breath and start from the beginning. Make a list of what you'd really
love to do with your life. Want to live on an island? Put it on
there. Want to buy your own house? Put it on there. Write down
everything that you want to do, look it over and decide which ones
you can feasibly achieve in the here and now.
Perhaps one
of your dreams is to write a novel. Do you have an idea for a story?
If so, make a little time in your life to start working on it, even
if it's only five or ten minutes every other day. Go to bed a little
earlier and lie in bed with a notebook. Set the TV to record that
show you want to watch. Put the cleaning off for another off. Turn
your phone off. Every little thing you do to free up time to do what
you want to do is a step in the right direction. You may not see the
results straight away but you're getting there, one step at a time.
Doing
something new is about commitment and being true to yourself. For a
long time, I wrote nothing but fiction and I loved every moment of
it. Over the past year, that desire has waned and been replaced with
the need to write non-fiction. I still dabble in working on my novels
but the drive to finish anything has dwindled. The last thing I
completed was the novel/screenplay combo “Dance in the Rain” back
in 2014.
To prepare
for a new phase in my life, I knew that I needed to change some of my
skills. So I started brushing up on my research skills. I also
started running interviews on this website. Whenever I was offered a
guest blog or the chance to speak somewhere, I took it. I asked
myself, “Can I sit and listen and give someone my entire focus for
the length of an interview?”. For me, that can be extremely
difficult so it's something I've been practising with family,
friends, and work colleagues. Now I'm hopefully putting the final
pieces of the puzzle together in order to start this brand new
chapter.
Changing
your life doesn't happen overnight but it can be done. You have to be
true to yourself. If that yearning for something new is living in
you, take time to think about what you want to do and how you can get
there. It might not happen today. It might not happen next month. But
you can do it. You can do whatever you put your mind to.
May your
week be wonderful!
Rae :)
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