What does my extraordinary life look like?

Here's an interesting question posed to me: "What if I don't know what my extraordinary life looks like? I don't know what I want; I just don't like the life I have. What do I do?"

Interesting question. People assume that you know what you want your life to be. My experience is, more often than not, that isn't true. Most people either don't know, or they create an idea in their head that is more about relieving stresses they feel than really creating a fulfilling, joyful and satisfying life.

So what can you do, how can you know what you want? The answer has 2 parts.

First, it doesn't matter if you know what you want your extraordinary life to look like. All that matters is that you know you want something more and you are willing to do something different to get there.

Second, you can get ideas about what you want by starting with an inspiration board. Just grab something to which you can attach pictures or bits and pieces of bric-a-brac. A bulletin board is great and a poster board, particle board or even a slab of pressed paper will do nicely. Then start attaching things that appeal to you. Cut out pictures from magazines, bits of fabric, a story, a photo, a piece of beach glass, a bag of sand, anything that calls to you, makes you feel good. If you love to run, attach a photo of yourself running or an old shoe lace, anything that lets you think of running when you look at it.

Keep adding to your board whenever you find a treasure. Then spend some time just looking at your board. Relax and let yourself feel good as you see yourself doing or enjoying the things on your inspiration board. Allow you mind to relax and wander, and let yourself see the possibilities for happiness. Let yourself see the things you like to do and the things that really make you feel good. Those are the things that will be part of your extraordinary life. Those are the activities to make time for. Those are the people to spend time with. Those are the things to have around you or the places to spend time in.

As you look at your inspiration board, you will see many things that give you joy. By focusing your time and energy on these things you will bring more joy in to your life. You will begin to create an extraordinary life, one that is fun, fulfilling and uniquely yours.