Why you need to re-evaluate your life today!
When was the last time you re-evaluated your life?
Is it something that you even need to do?
Why should you re-evaluate your life?
Let’s start with the first question – how often do you do it?
Most likely, never!
Most of us just kind of do what we do without a lot of thought or input into what we really want to be doing in our life. Sure, we decide what we want to be doing, career-wise, and then off we go and study, but then what?
What about personally? As in who you are as a person?
Are you doing things that align with who you are? Do you even know who you are?
I believe that re-evaluating your life is something that you should do yearly. Set a date in your phone or write it in your diary and give yourself the day off to re-evaluate.
If you have a partner, make sure that they’re included and they re-evaluate themselves as well!
Why? Because we are constantly growing and changing. Well, I’d like to think that we are! What was incredibly important to you at 20, isn’t going to be the same at 30 or 40 etc.
As an example, you may desperately want to have children at 20, but when you meet that person you want to spend the rest of your life with at 30, you’ve since grown and your feelings may have changed.
You may even be more eco aware and don’t want to bring a child into this world. Or you may be still wanting to be a parent. Neither is right or wrong.
It doesn’t matter what age you are, I’d like you to re-evaluate your life, right now.
I’m going to wait a couple of minutes while you get a pen and paper (or use your laptop) – whatever suits you!
Doo de doo, dum de dum, la la la…..
Ok, there’s your couple of minutes, got your pen and paper?
Let’s go….
Ask yourself these questions:-
- Am I happy with who I am? If not, then what is it that you want to change?
- Would I have any regrets if I died tomorrow? If yes, list them down.
- Do I enjoy what I do for a living? If not, then what would you like to be doing?
- What does your ideal day look like? How are you going to achieve it?
- How would your life look in 1 year if you make no changes? Would you be happy with it?
- What would you like your life to look like in 1 year? What do you need to do to make this happen?
- What is the ‘Why’ to your life? WHY do you want to be healthier? WHY do you want to have a degree? If you don’t know WHY, then you may be working towards goals that actually have no meaning for you personally, but are what you THINK you should be doing!
- What are your values? Are you living them? If not, why not?
- What do I want people to say about me at my funeral? Am I living the life that would allow them to do this? If not, what do you need to change?
- What would you do, if you weren’t afraid of anything?
Answering those questions and any others that you may think of, will help you re-evaluate your life.
However, this isn’t about just writing some things down and forgetting about them.
It’s about MAKING THE CHANGES that are needed for you to live a life that is authentic to who you are; that allows you to support your partner in what they want to achieve as well (if you have one).
It also allows you to see if you and your partner are still on the same path!
It’s OK for your goals and focus to change, that’s what growth is all about.
Last year, you may have been all focused on wanting to be a millionaire, then you found out through the year that a close friend has a terminal illness, which then makes you re-assess what is actually important to you. Then you realise that you’ve been all about working to make money and not actually living, so you decide to change your focus and live the life that is important to you right now.
In a way, that’s what my Gorgeous Guy and I did. I’m 51 he’s 58 and we realised that we seem to spend every waking moment working and have decided we want to change that. So, we did.
We’ve sold up everything so we can be debt free. When that all settles (he has a handover time with his company of 12 – 18 months) then we hope to be able to kick back more and be semi-retired, reduce our expenditure, which means we don’t have to earn as much.
We can take time out to see the world and that isn’t just overseas but the world in which we will be living.
It’s quite often big decisions that we need to make – big changes, But what you need to ask yourself is ‘would I regret not doing this’ even if things don’t work out as you had planned, and that doesn’t mean that they don’t work out! At least you can say you tried!
People have said to us, ‘what if you don’t like where you’re moving to’? My reply is, ‘well, then we’ll move somewhere else!’.
Sit down, re-evaluate your life. Then make the decisions and steps that you need to make so that it happens.
Don’t worry about what other people say or think, this is your life, not theirs. You need to live a life that is authentic to who you are, not someone else.
Love & Light
Katrina-Jane
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