I watched part of my mentor coach’s speech yesterday and he was talking about happiness.
He was more interested in waking up to every day with excitement rather than the definition of happening and for that he saw the importance of making your dreams happen – starting from your childhood dreams. He also mentioned the importance of being able to decide what to do with your life and how to direct yourself and your time. And usually there are steps to get to this place of being able. In the beginning we want to free ourselves from our parents and earn our own money. Earning enough money is goal so we go and find a job. We might then want to travel the world for some time or visit places we’ve never been in our holidays and a salary raise can be our goal, then maybe flexible working, by time it might be creating more impact and then being more of service to the others and the world.
The goals are layered and they change overtime.
He mentioned how a lot of people are hooked by the quote of Jim Carrey:
“I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it’s not the answer.”
He said this is what Jim Carrey sees as Jim Carrey, you first do what Jim Carrey did, become who Jim Carrey had become and then see it for yourself.
We in BeCoach Academy talk about 7 Levels of Consciousness / Psychological Development, it is a ladder we go up. The ladder starts with our basic needs of Survival, climbs up and at the top sits Service (Selfless service)- when the basic needs need our attention, we cannot go for the higher levels. We need to care for ourselves and work from the place of where we are at the moment.