Make a living or design a life?

“We all have two choices as we live, we can make a living or we can design a life. There are many who spend their lives making a living. They go off to work each day with no vision for what their lives could become and before they know it, their lives are over. Some are so fearful that the dreams they do have, will forever go unfulfilled because they never have the courage to take a risk that would enable them to reach their goals and live their dreams.” Jim Rohn

If you are reading this, let these words encourage and inspire you to be the one to ‘design a life’. Dare to soar and to expect more of yourself during 2007 & beyond, than ever before.

What’s interesting at this time of year is that most of us will spend more hours in planning Christmas, than in planning our lives. We have an expectation for a Christmas each year on December 25th, such that there is never any question that this will not happen. Everything is planned with meticulous detail and positive expectancy. There is no question, it’s in the diary, it’s happening and failure is not on the agenda. Likewise, how many of us give similar or greater priority to next year’s summer holiday, those two precious weeks where we can actually do what we want for a change…date in the diary, tickets booked, spending money in the budget along with a sense of excitement and expectation that lives within us each and every day until we are safely at this year’s destination.

Within these habits lies the doorway to a life by design versus a settled for existence and within the essence of expectation, lies the key to the realisation of our dreams. So, dare to expect more of yourself, to live the life that you have designed and soar to heights that you had never previously dreamed possible.