Life Lessons- Ask your Soul What is Missing

Life Lessons

How to age Gracefully Tip # 4

Ask Your Soul what it would like to experience. What is missing in your life?

By Cassandra George Sturges

 

It’s never too late to change jobs, go back to school, start your own business, join a club, or try out for a team. Look within your heart and ask yourself, what would I like to do that I haven’t done before—before I leave this body?

Aging gracefully is not about the quantity of how long we have lived on this planet; aging gracefully is about the quality of the life that we have lived unabashedly, without shame, and without regret.

You don’t have to quit your job. Start small. I think that the “all or nothing” and “go big or go home” philosophy has stopped so many people from living their dream life. Whatever it is that you want to do, my unsolicited advice to you is to first—google what you want to do. 

Read about it. Learn how other people got started. Look at pictures. After you are finished looking at images, reading articles, watching YouTube videos and taking meticulous notes—do one small act towards your dream.

Don't spend too much time trying to figure out how to accomplish your goal because it is so easy to become intimidated by the all the overwhelming information and the success of others. When I decided to start making tutorials, I was intimidated by the success of you-tubers who started years ago and who are still young enough to be my children.

You can take in too much information to the point, where you don't feel "good enough" or that everything has already been done and said. Just learn enough to get started. After you have completed a portion of your goal-- then go back and learn some more information. Going for your dream is a delicate dance between learning new information and applying what you have learned.

Let’s say you want to write a book. If you write one sentence a night—you will still be much further along than you were last year.

 Last thing, I want to say about getting started on completing unfulfilled goals and dreams—please don’t tell anyone. I don’t know why…I don’t know what the spiritual law is… but I have found that when I want to achieve a goal it works best when I keep it to myself and share the completed results with others.