Trust your intuition.

Your intuition is a gift. In India it is called the third eye, or the way to see with your soul.

This means you have to go inside for certain answers. Not inside your head, but inside your heart. Inside your soul. There most of the time the answer is. 

Keep on trusting your true self, it will help you to make your dream and your goals come true.

Expectations.

With a positive attitude you will always be pleasantly surprised.

Try to stop expecting things to be a certain way, so you can appreciate them for what they are.

Questions vs. Answers.

When you want to understand stuff, you have to have the courage to ask enough questions. The right questions.

As Voltaire said: " Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers ".

Life is full of unanswered questions, so keep on asking.

Take your responsibility.

If something is not right, or something needs to change in your life, take responsibility on it.

You are the only one who can make the change. 

Do not come up with the old song: "I do not have a choice". 
By saying this you relieve yourself from every responsibility. 
You let go of control over your life. 

Do not give up. Keep on caring. For you.

• Where do the synchronicities point you?

In our daily living-in-a-fast-lane life we tend to forget there are signpost along the way.

Try to check once in a while, preferably daily, if this is still the road to take. What other signs are there alongside the track. Every day we meet them. And everyday there are possibilities to get more synchronized with the signs.

Then the question becomes: where do the synchronicities point you to?

What is your gut telling you?

Your instinct, or gut feeling, never lies.

Listen to it.

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What do you feel like doing now?

Just think about it for a while.

Or, as I heard from a friend who quit his job:

His girlfriend had put two chairs in the middle of the room. When he came home she asked him to sit on one chair, close his eyes and think about himself in his current job, workload, responsibilities. His daily life.

After a while she asked him to sit on the other chair and think about himself without his job.

Next day he quit his job.

Are you doing what you feel like doing?

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Surround yourself with amazing people. 

You will become who you surround yourself with.

Be sincerely kind to everyone around you.

When being kind you create confidence. 

When you give kindly, you will create love around you. 

When you think kind, you will create positivity.

These three ways of kindness I read somewhere. I think it is true. 

When being kind you can make a difference. It rarely happens that your partner comes home and tells you that it was so bad he met kindness that day. Everybody wants to be treated kind. 

And, kindness will bring out more kindness. And it will make you grow stronger. 

The need to keep everything the same.

A lot of people feel the need to keep everything the same. Safe and secure. Clear.

And, changes come anyway. Most of the time when you are not asking for them, or not expecting them. Things change. People change. Circumstances come and go. 

Life does not stop for anybody. It moves fast. sometimes very fast. It can go from calm and easy to chaos in seconds. And these seconds can change our lives. 

Unpredictable events have flipped lives upside down, for better and for worse.

Things change. People and circumstances come and go. Life doesn’t stop for anybody.

The question is: "What are you doing afterwards?' That is what counts. How do you cope with the changes?

The coping with change will make you find out who you really are. That is living.

Work on substantial goals.

Are the goals I set high enough? That's a question I ask myself. When you set goals that are far lower then you are able to achieve, you go for mediocrity.

And, most of the time, when it is to late you realize it. The starting point of mediocre goals is most of the time fear for failure. But the truth is when you have a proper goal, failure will bring you closer. It teaches you lessons about stuff that does not work. 

Failure also lets you move on. And mediocrity holds you back from reaching your full potential.

Suppose you experience yourself succeeding, but you still feel incomplete. Then it is time to reevaluate your goals.

Pursue a goal so significant that even if you fail, you are better off for having tried.

Evolve.  

When you liked something at a certain point in life, this does not mean you are still required to like it today.

People change their minds. 

And sometimes I meet people who hold on to an idea or opinion or dream as a sort of act of loyalty to themselves. But according to me this says something about who you once were as a person.

Loyalty to yourself means that you allow yourself to have the freedom to grow. To change. To develop.

The only thing you ever are for sure is unsure. Do not be, or feel imprisoned by some old ways and patterns of thinking. That is the starting point of growth.

Challenge who you are. Challenge what you think. Do it at any given moment in time. That is evolving.

Stop listening to toxic people.

Everybody knows them and meets them. Every day. Sometimes regularly, in a work situation, sometimes less regular. Toxic people.

You recognise them, because they are convinced that everything is impossible. They are the ones which are very quick in shooting of ideas. They are poisoning your mind. They make you hopeless.

Just stop listening to them. 

When you surround yourself with positive people, people who are passionate, these people will inspire you. They will help you bring your best out of you. And most of the time these positive, non toxic people, are around in your family and amongst your friends. You know, while reading this, immediately whom I am talking about.

Surround yourself with them. They will lift you up when you feel down. 

Yesterday I heard a nice tip: Go once a day or two days trough your phone and call someone without a reason. Call the non toxic ones.

I’m looking forward to it.

Are you looking forward to your day of work? 

When yes, when it is "hard to do" what you are going to do today, it has no meaning to you.  Hard work is easy to do when you like what you do.

If your daily work is becoming uninteresting, boring, hard to do, so is your life, and so are you.

Your daily work is filling a large percentage of your time in your life. A large part of your time here on earth. 

Do work which you want to do. What you dream of doing. To make the majority of your live interesting. By doing so you give yourself an injection. Every day.

The key? Find, and do work that means something to you. Or connect your work to a goal that has meaning.

Looking forward to it?

Accept the things you can’t change.

There is a saying: that what you are resisting, persists.  

By resisting something you are feeding the thing, or the one, you resist. By putting energy in it, you are feeding it.

Or, as my coach told me: "By using negative energy to push something away, you are actually inviting it to stay".

Big challenge, for me: choose to accept what is. 

I stay positive and active, let go of the need to control, and embrace the process.

Tell yourself the right story.

Every day we tell ourselves stories. Out loud, to others, to confirm our story, and in our heads. We keep on reciting these stories.

By doing so we make up who we are, it has a big influence on all of our lives.

The question is if we tell ourselves the right story. By telling the right story, you will become more loving, more passionate, more courageous. ( meaning: cou·ra·geous  /kəˈrājəs : not deterred by anger or pain; brave.

If you tell yourself the wrong story the opposite will occur.

And, I think you owe it to yourself to get the story right. Right?

I’ll give it another try.

Everyone has this thought. And it is a very good starting point.

If you try something, no matter what, you already achieved something. Forget failure, or whatever outcome. By trying you are achieving and trying is always enough. (Not that it should be a reason to keep on trying, but look around you: how many people keep on trying? And if f not, what life do they have?)

You can also be proud that you tried. You gave it, hopefully, your best shot. And when the result is not good enough, try again. Because every mistake teaches you something. About if you still want to achieve that goal, and it teaches you a lot about yourself.

The biggest failure is never trying again. In the end what counts is the courage to continue.

Individuals don't win. Teams do.

This is a saying most of the times used by managers of teams. 

And, it is true. Because no man is an island, and you are always surrounded by people. In your private situation, work, sports, school, university. In life.

So, if you want to win, and not only in the meaning of competition or sports, but make "profit" in your life about the things which move you, see if you can form a team. A team which is committed to make it happen. A team with members who want to make it happen, for themselves, and for the other. 

Or, as Al Pacino says it in Any Given Sunday" Either we heal, as a team, or we will crumble as individuals. The one who is willing to make that extra inch, to make that extra effort for his team-mate, that team will win".

Do you have the feeling that you belong to a team like that?

Are you doing what everyone else wants you to do. 

There is a tremendous pressure from other people around us, which makes us do what we do. From parents, friends in school, colleagues, managers we work for etc.

Most of the time I think: "Life is to short to spend all my time trying to make everyone happy". Apart from that, it is impossible to please everyone all the time. It is impossible for anyone else, beside of you, to know what it the best for you. No matter how much you share with your parents, your friends, your colleagues, they are not connected to your deepest desires, your intuition, your hopes and your dreams.

You have to make choices that take mind, body and soul into consideration. Your mind, your body and your soul, because you are the only person who knows what is the best for you, isn't it?

Always, ALWAYS listen to yourself and what you want first.

Positive results are the outcome of positive daily actions.

Simple: if you are positive, positive stuff will come out of your actions. If you are negative, .........

Do something that makes you proud. Start doing things that matter. Every day. 

Actually: all you need is today. 

Your strategic plan can be: make this moment the start of changing your (daily) life.