This is Day 3 of the 7 days to a new goal journey with MDRT Bootcamp Master Trainer Jensen Siaw. In this exercise you will learn what you truly love to do and want to do.
In case you missed it:
DAY 1: DISCOVERING WHO YOU THINK YOU ARE
DAY 2: MAKING NEW EMPOWERED CHOICES
DAY 3: BEING TRUE TO YOUR DESIRES
On Day 1 & 2, what you have done was to uncover and eliminate your negative and limiting self-beliefs. Such beliefs trap one within a box and limits one’s potential, growth, performance and achievements.
You have since eliminated and replaced them with new empowering beliefs. Great!
Now that you have let go of those negative and limiting beliefs about yourself and made new empowering CHOICES in your self-beliefs, you are empowered to take the NEXT STEP – Being true to your desires.
Learning points:
Truly live your life, not just breathe
Truly living your life is about living with passion, energy, and enthusiasm. Those who truly live their lives are almost always creating, pursuing, reflecting, improving, growing and achieving. Those who just breathe through life often live everyday in fixed sequence with no passion, no energy and no enthusiasm. They are like “walking zombies” or “bodies without soul”, walking around without life, and don’t get excited about things and certainly can’t enjoy pleasures of life very much.
Are you truly living, or just breathing?
Do what you love
One of the ways to truly live life is to do what you truly love to do, be it pursuing or engaging in the areas of sports, arts, literature, lifestyle, entertainment, worthy causes etc. Before you say you are not able to do what you love to do because of whatever reason, remember that you have a CHOICE. If you cannot do what you love now, you can plan to do what you love in the near future.
Know what you love
Before you can do what you love, you got to know what you love, what your heart desires. Some of us know very clearly what we love to do; but for others, it could be something very distant that they have suppressed or lost touched with some time ago. Now is the time to be true to your heart.
Day 3 Exercise
In this exercise, you will discover what you truly love to do and want to do.
Simply answer the questions below:
1. If you know that you couldn’t fail (i.e. you will succeed in whatever that you do), what would you do?
I would ___________________________________________________
Your answer to this question is probably what you truly love to do.
2. What is/are the factor(s) stopping you from doing the above?
Factor(s) stopping me: ______________________________________
While there could be several factors stopping you, it is usually just one real reason that stops you.
The rest are “smoke bombs”.
3. What is the real reason you are not doing what you love to do?
Real reason: __________________________________________
Often, the real reason is associated with a FEAR we have. Fear traps and cripples us, but they are not real.
4. What are you afraid about if you were to do what you love to do?
My fear: _____________________________________________
5. Between doing what you love to do and the likelihood that what you fear may occur, which has more meaning and significance to you?
Between truly living your life and living in your fear,
Which matters more to you? What is your CHOICE?
If you CHOOSE to truly live your life, proceed to Day 4.
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