Life Reimagined: Discovering Your New Life Possibilities
You can make money, you can lose money. You cannot make time. Once it’s gone, it’s gone. Forever. So I’m not going to spend another moment, another second of my life doing anything just to make money. Anything that I do now is something that I’m doing because I am totally passionate about it and committed to it.
Richard J. Leider • Life Reimagined: Discovering Your New Life Possibilities
The point is to examine that story and then to use it to reimagine what’s possible going forward—to use the threads that are the through-lines of your past to weave a new story for the future.
Richard J. Leider • Life Reimagined: Discovering Your New Life Possibilities
Your challenges for Life Reimagined to “get real” avoid the heart of the matter: you are responsible for shaping your own reality. You’re trying to let yourself off the hook by blaming someone else—and calling it “
Richard J. Leider • Life Reimagined: Discovering Your New Life Possibilities
What Is a Trigger? Another word for a trigger is a wake-up call—a conscious choice or an external event that disrupts the comfortable status quo of our lives. It’s a moment when the game changes, and we have to adapt to the new game.
Richard J. Leider • Life Reimagined: Discovering Your New Life Possibilities
ask yourself questions about how you use your time. Do you reserve your time for things that matter to you? Are you more loyal to your past? Or are you forming a new, powerful loyalty to what you want to have happen in your future?
Richard J. Leider • Life Reimagined: Discovering Your New Life Possibilities
That’s the biggest trigger that I have ever experienced. What are you going to do with the rest of your life? What I had to do, I had to start taking some of my own advice. I had been telling people, I had written about it for a very long time, that if you’re doing something that you’re not totally committed to, if you’re doing something that you’r
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Richard J. Leider • Life Reimagined: Discovering Your New Life Possibilities
The old story was populated by such themes as “the golden years,” “life of leisure,” a life without the pressure of time clocks or the demands of work.
Richard J. Leider • Life Reimagined: Discovering Your New Life Possibilities
Writing in a journal will help you connect the dots of your journey. It’s a way of keeping track of your thoughts, a tool for seeing and understanding your progress. A journal keeps you centered; it allows you to see fears that recur—and to recognize ones that fall away.
Richard J. Leider • Life Reimagined: Discovering Your New Life Possibilities
When it comes to Life Reimagined, you’re only as good as your practices—the work you do. Rituals make practices a regular part of your day; they become fun, easy, a source of pride and a reminder of the progress you’re making on your journey. Rituals can be as simple as pause, reflect, act, and learn.