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SETTING NEW PRIORITIES FOR LIFE & WORK Now’s the perfect time to think about what you truly want from life. Richard Docwra shares his approach to finding your perfect balance…
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ACH of us needs to make the most of our brief period of existence by approaching life in a thoughtful and well-informed way. We need to stand back from the pressures and detail of our daily lives and see them within the bigger picture including where we are, what we are as creatures and why we’re here. As we emerge from lockdown, battered and bruised, changed people in a changed world,
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now seems like a perfect time to pull back and re-examine what we want for ourselves, putting our lives and circumstances into context. Seeing our situation within the context of history, the universe and other people’s lives can help us to feel less anxious about our present situation, and understand the options before us more clearly. Having stepped back to see your life within the big picture, we can then begin to explore some of the big questions of life, including how to find
meaning, how to behave and how to get the most out of life. Again, now seems like the right moment to consider these things, not just for ourselves as individuals, but for the businesses we run and the people we are serving with these businesses. For many of us, it’s more than just ‘the right moment’ - it’s a necessity, as the pandemic has changed our businesses and our lives, as well as those of our clients and customers. We not only need to remind ourselves of our priorities - we need to adapt to the changed landscape we live within. A good initial question to ask in this process is, ‘What gives me meaning in life?’ As far as we know, there is no preordained meaning to our lives - we create meaning for ourselves. Many of the things that give us meaning are actually quite simple and sitting right in front of our eyes - for example, human relationships. We often find ourselves unable to see these things though, and can find ourselves wandering through life without a sense of meaning or struggling to find it whilst desperately seeking it. One of the few positives that some people have been able to salvage from the pandemic has been to give them a clearer idea of the things that give them real meaning in their lives. From my own perspective, these have included things I have
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