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When Nothing Can Knock You Off Track

Nov 28th, 2007 | By Dan O'Neil | Category: Personal Development, confidence, self-improvement

I don’t know if you’ve ever felt like this: you feel unshakable and if things get in the way, you shrug them off or deal with them fast. It’s like being in flow, in the moment or in the zone. In my experience it’s a wonderful place to be and for me it comes about when I am really excited about and totally focused on something.

The real thing here is to establish how you get into that place and then how do you maintain it? To me it boils down to having a purpose or meaning that you are single-mindedly committed to. In that place you are full of confidence (even if a little nervous excitement is present) and great things seem to happen. I think I’ve mentioned before that an old mentor of mine had an expression “Moments of Intensity” and certainly these feel like them.

So how do you find your purpose or meaning? Well, that’s a tough one. I’ve recommended Viktor Frankl’s book, “Man’s Search For Meaning” which will undoubtedly help. I believe that the first place to start is to consider the roles that you have in your life, such as parent, partner, child, sibling, employee, boss, business owner etc and find things in there that you can begin to define your meaning. The bottom line is to find what your life is all about, which is as simple as you stating what that is. As Neale Donald Walsch says in The Secret, there is no blackboard in the sky with your purpose written on it that you have to find. It is your responsibility to define it for yourself and then live your life to the full, expressing yourself through that purpose. There certainly can be more than one, of course one is a good place to start.

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2 Comments to “When Nothing Can Knock You Off Track”

  1. I remember my focusing was off back in the day. Sooner or later you start to take things a little serious. This all comes in maturity and responsibility. It all comes together in the end. Leveling out the things you need and want to accomplish at a certain time of the year isn’t bad at all of course, but make a educated decision of the outcome, this is a really informative post, thanks.

    Dan O’Neil says… Thanks Jermaine.

  2. I always am focused when starting a new project. The only time i have a problem is after so long i loose the drive i had to make it work in the first place. i think everyone runs out of steam but you have to set goals and stick with them everyday. This way you keep focus and keep working to make project a success.

    Dan O’Neil says… It’s remembering the fun is in the journey that gets you through!

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