Good morning, good evening, good day, I hope you had a good weekend!
For regular readers of my blog I wonder, if you had the opportunity to sit down and just have a think about your want list? What does doing this do you might ask? Well like I’ve written about before what it does is it kind of acts as a filter for you life, for your path and for your purpose.
This process of sitting down and figuring out what you want will be especially helpful for anyone who feels a little bit loss, for anyone who feels like they lack that one little bit of clarity. Because it’s when you figure out what you want that you find your bliss, and it’s something Dr. Joseph Campbell writes about.
He talks about a hero’s journey and the path that we all walk, but it’s not a hero’s journey to save the world, but rather to save ourselves. So how do you find your bliss? Think about the times in your life where you are doing something that truly makes you come alive, where you feel on top of the world. That’s your bliss, it’s like being alive, being fully alive.
Once you actually begin taking the steps in thinking about what you want your life suddenly takes on meaning and you feel like you have a sense of purpose. The little mundane tasks that you do take on a new light, as if they are now moving you closer to where you want to be.
By committing to this and writing down this list, or verbally asking out loud and putting it out in the universe something strange begins to happen. Don’t take my word for it, it’s been written about by some of the greatest figures of our history.
The great Harvard Professor Tal Ben-Shahar in Happiness, writes :
“In 1879 Thomas Edison announced that he would publicly display the electric lightbulb by December 31, even though all his experiments had, to that point, failed. He threw his knapsack over the brick wall—the numerous challenges that he still faced—and on the last day of that year, there was light. In 1962, when John F. Kennedy declared to the world that the United States was going to land a man on the moon by the end of the decade, some of the metals necessary for the journey had not yet been invented, and the technology required for completing the journey was not available. But he threw his— and NASA’s—knapsack over the brick wall. Though making a verbal commitment, no matter how bold and how inspiring, does not ensure that we reach our destination, it does enhance the likelihood of success.”
So, when you do get that list, or take the first steps in doing it, throw your rucksack over the wall and make a commitment to yourself, you’ll be pleased when you realise that there will be guiding hands to help you. Use your filter and help yourself see through the madness 🙂
Peter
The Shining Man 