‘So what is life all about? Even the Monty Python crew couldn’t really explain the meaning of life in their movie of the same name. Is it possible that life is a simple thing, is it possible that life is only about a few choices?

I think most people make life far more complex than it needs to be. People spend so much time focusing on little things, so much time focusing on doing stuff that help other people meet their needs that they often don’t get out of life what they want. Why - maybe it’s their education, maybe it’s their upbringing, in any case it is a product of environment conditioning.

Why don’t we think about it in a different way for just a moment. Life could be quite simple if we looked at it from a macro perspective and got out of the detail, just for a moment. In doing that, we might find it’s only about three things, three decisions that we can all make.

THE FIRST  is the decision about DESIGNING your life. Do we design our life or is the plan laid out for us, regardless of how bad it seems? Do we live a life we design or do we cop it sweet and go with what’s served up to us? If you don’t believe you have a choice about how you live your life and how it turns out, you will always be a victim of circumstances.

The quality of your life will be left to chance, and I don’t believe for a moment that our creator intended that for you or anyone else. My illusion is that you certainly don’t want that to be the case in your life. You, like me, want to experience the true joy it offers. The moment you start to believe you have a purpose in life and you can design and live a life of your choosing, you’re ready to start actually doing it. Your conscious and unconscious mind is ready to start moving towards making that a reality and you begin to tap into the incredible resources that already reside within you.

THE SECOND decision you can make is to LIVE the life you design. Having an idea about what you want in your life and actually making it a reality are worlds apart. It takes great commitment, consistent focus and determined action to make it real. The truth is that few people live the life they really want. They do what everybody else does and wonder why they get what everybody else gets.

THE THIRD decision you can make is to SHAPE the life of another. Irrespective of whether or not they’re family or someone else, one of the most gratifying and personally rewarding processes you will ever engage in is to help someone else make choices about their life, help someone capture the opportunities and experience the true joy that our existence in this world offers. The sense of personal growth and contribution that comes from this is what fulfills our needs for self actualisation. This is where a sense of true fulfillment can be experienced. It’s why I do what I do in our life mastery seminars.

If you make this third decision, you MUST REMEMBER one very important point.

You can only shape the life of another to the level that you’re able to design and live your own life.

A teacher can only teach to the level they know themselves. You can only influence the quality of your children’s lives to the standard you experience in your own.

If you believe this and you do these three things well, your standards for success in the game of life might well become these.

1. To create an image in the minds of those who observe you for how to really live a quality life;
   

2. To experience a consistent sense of fulfillment in shaping the life of others; and
   

3. For people around you to consistently experience pleasure through their relationship or association with you.
   

If these become your standards for success in this world, then the quality of life you experience will be outstanding.

So with those thoughts my friend, dream big and choose to make your life extraordinary.

George Lee Sye