Warning: A Big Leap is a radical shift in thinking, which challenges one or more of the assumptions you have previously made about life. Once you’ve made a big leap, life will never be the same again.
Make Your First Baby Step to Creating The Life You Really Want in the next 3 Minutes!
You’ve just been made redundant. And you may be feeling a bit low or at worst devastated. You’re uncertain about the future and if you allow yourself to be honest, you sometimes feel scared and defeated. You feel like you’ve been slapped in the face and somehow you’ve got to find the energy to start looking for a new job or career.
Ok, let’s see if we can help. The following process will take 3 minutes. Get a piece of paper and scribble down the answers to the following:
Step 1: Ask a big question: in fact, ask yourself three.
· If this redundancy had happened at exactly the right time to help you change career direction, what direction do you want to move in now?
· If this redundancy was a wake-up call to a new life, what do you want to create in your new life?
· You’re 90 years of age and you’re reading your biography (that has just become a best seller) about your life and times, describe how this redundancy was the springboard to a new beginning?
Step 2: Ready to leap?
Making the big leap is fundamentally about changing the way we think as well as changing what we do. So answer the next big question:
· What would you have to believe about yourself to change career direction at this point and start to create the career that you really want?
Stay with the question. Don’t get into ‘that’s not possible’ or ‘who will pay the mortgage? Just the answer the question. What would you have to believe? That you were clever enough? Brave enough? Talented enough? Savvy enough? Good enough? That you’re gorgeous? That you’re a quietly confident maverick or someone who has the brains, determination and flair to make a new business work? Or that you really are a talented writer/artist/singer? What would you have to believe about yourself to make the changes at this point in your life?
Step 3: Take a bootcamp baby step:
Our beliefs form and come true for us when we find evidence to back them up. What we focus on expands. If you believe that it will never be possible for you to change career or create a lovely life, that life’s a bitch and then you die, well you’re right. What you believe about the world is true. Your reality is what you think it is. So if you want to change your reality, change your beliefs. Change your belief by finding some new evidence to support the new belief you wrote down in step 2. If you have to believe you’re clever enough to start to create your new life – what action can you take in the next 3 minutes to prove to yourself that this is true – from doing the crossword to doing an IQ test on the internet. It generally takes around 100 pieces of evidence before a new belief takes root and your focus begins to change effortlessly. Take a baby step and go and find your first piece of evidence NOW. Change your belief, change your reality, change your thinking, change your job, change your life.
Congratulations, you’ve just made a big leap in 3 minutes.
Nicky Hambleton Jones
“Looking back, I see that redundancy was the best thing that could have happened to me. It made me stop putting up with a job I hated. A month later, I had a business idea that filled me with such excitement and enthusiasm, I couldn’t imagine doing anything else. I have learnt that, out of the misery comes great happiness. It probably took for things to get that bad for me to even consider starting my own business. Redundancy was the thing that finally motivated me to take the big leap I had been avoiding for years.”
Nicky Hambleton Jones,32, Big Leaping from management consultant to fashion stylist & TV presenter.
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