In this weeks #CoachingBox we will be exploring that elusive concept of “arriving”, that time of celebration,  after all it may have taken you weeks, months or possibly years and you’ve finally arrived!! Or have you?

You may not be where you expected to be, but here is where you are, right now.  So what happened?

Sometimes it becomes evident that there is a bigger purpose to life, that no-one told you about.  It’s the little things that point you in the direction you’re to be heading and often we respond in one way, we resist and say NO!  After all, YOU know what YOU want and YOU ARE steadily moving towards it.  But there is another reality at play!

Hindsight is a wonderful thing at these times.  We do not know everything.  We think that we know all we’re suppose to know for now, but in the scheme of things we do not know much at all.  We think that we are on target living the life we have designed and enjoying it!

There is a saying loosely based on a quote by Pema Chodron that says that “life will continue to send the same lessons until you get it!”

What you don’t know is that life has a plan and that the plan has brought you to now!!  To a time when what is required is for you to learn the lessons kindly sent your way.  To really get that you are only you and all that is required is that you do the best that you can do in this moment, just this moment!!

It might be useful to take time out to reflect on your current situation.  Here are a few questions that you can use to facilitate this process;

1. Where are you in relation to where you want to be?
2. What is your sense of where you are going?  Do you hear something?
3. What qualities and skills  have you yet to develop?  Are these new or old skills?
4. What lessons are you to learn this time?

Take some time to think about what’s new in your life that really excites you.  What is this telling you about where you are heading or where you are today?   Be Patient.  The answers will arrive as soon as you relax into it!

If you would like to explore your current situation and have an understanding of what direction or higher purpose you are being called to, you may want to visit Roy’s Exercise at Summit Journey Coaching; http://summitjourneycoaching.com/free_exercise.php.  Roy has created a  self-guided audio exercise that you can try out.

In our next #CoachingBox we will be exploring the next possible step.

“The greatest personal limitation is to be found not in the things you want to do and can’t, but in the things you’ve never considered doing.”  Richard Bandler

“Openly share and talk to people about your idea.  Use their lack of interest or doubt to fuel your motivation to make it happen.”  Todd Garland

 “Whatever you do, be different.  That was the advice my mother gave me, and I can’t think of better advice for an entrepreneur.  If you’re different, you will stand out.”  Anita Roddick

“Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.”   Nido Qubein

“The mind is not a vessel that needs filling but wood that needs igniting.”   Plutarch

“Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.  I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.”   Louisa May Alcott

”In a real sense all life is interrelated.  All people are in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.  I can never be all I can be until you are all you can be, and you can never be all you can be until I am all I can be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.”  Martin Luther King

“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”  Dalai Lama

“If you’re seeking more knowledge you’re seeking a better understanding of people.”  Uma Thurman