Goals, Visions, Ambitions, Life: Big Questions to Seek Harmony

I found myself asking the question again, “What am I doing with my life.” After taking time out and travelling for a couple of weeks with my family I was able to reflect upon life. The more we can disconnect the greater our clarity. I reflected mostly on the year just past.

Anytime is a wise time to reflect. An opportunity to clear away the clutter and overwhelm, and to reconnect and align yourself with your why to stay true to your journey in life.

Ask yourself about the past year. You could do this at any moment for any period of time. Daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly. What worked well and what didn’t? What is making me feel good and what is causing suffering? And importantly is what I am doing with my life aligned with my greater vision.

I believe the ultimate meaning and best use of life is to live in a deeper state of happiness. How could that be improved on your journey forward?

Having ambition in life is fantastic. It is what motivates and excites us to keep progressing. Too much can be drowning. As time passes and we push harder each day to gain the momentum we need towards reaching our dreams and goals things begin to accumulate. We are drawn this way and that. Focus and clarity weakens. We may even burn ourselves out.

A heavy attachment to the past can dim the light of our ambitions. It can demotivate us to take action. Cloud our ability to be aware about what’s important. Disillusion to what is actually important. It can even create a sense of fear about the future. This is of course if we focus and attach to the negative. The positives of the past can often promote further conducive action.

Ambitions also pull us towards too much reliance on living in the future. Again, it is great to be driven towards something. The excitement on the journey including the challenges we may face are delicious. It is what makes this experience more enhanced and beautiful. Yet if we get so caught up in the chase, life passes us by. We may miss out on the beauty of being present and in the moment.

How do we find the balance between having ambition and living today? It comes down to having awareness. Mindfulness is the key to balance! It is actually the overwhelm and attachment to either/or the past and future that impacts on our ability to create such awareness in our lives. Find the time and space to do yourself a favour and become aware.

This is something we can do from moment to moment. We can practice it daily, weekly and yearly. It is an area I seek to continually improve as I have experienced the profound impact it can have on my life.

With this practice you will initiate yourself to reflect on life and ask some of the bigger questions around how you are living it. Seek more insight into your purpose and meaning. Find greater wisdom and truth into your truly desired state of being. It will allow you to let go of the shit of the past, reduce the anxiety that your ambitions of the future hold, and live more freely, fully and happily.

With such time in reflection and clarity about your life you are able to understand what is necessary and what is not. What is conducive to your happiness and what is destructive to life or causing suffering. Too much of what we do accumulates to the point that we become ineffective, loose focus of our reason and find no greater benefit of it all.

Clarity allows you to do only what is necessary and important. Decrease the to-do-list, schedule your time better and simplify things. Limit the options available and you will find decisions easier to make while also reducing the stress caused by overwhelm. Life is often complicated by the overabundant amount of opportunities available to us today.

There are many other thoughts and ideas I would like to share that would benefit you in bring balance and happiness back to life however, these are a couple of the major ones. Finally, don’t get caught up in what everyone else is doing. When we do this we become misdirected by everything external to us and this causes us to veer of the path that is true to our why. It is on our own journey that life is enriched.