Discover Your Meaning of Life

December, 2005

Dear Friend,

You probably already know that midlife crisis is caused by a conflict between your social values, instilled into you by the society, and your true inner values, the most important values that you might have been ignoring up until now. You can find more information about the stages of midlife crisis and its causes on our website at www.midlifeskills.com.

How do you find your way through and out of midlife crisis? What do you do? Given what you already know about midlife crisis, the obvious answer is: start doing and achieving what really matters to you. But do you really know what it is? How do you achieve it if you do not even know exactly what you really want in your life, what will really make you happy? And how do you find it out? How do you even begin??...

Today, we will learn a simple and very powerful process that will help you discover your own meaning of life, and will help you to start moving towards your own light at the end of the tunnel, right out of the darkness of midlife crisis. The thousand mile journey begins with the first step.

The Process

Enough talking, let's get moving. You need a pen, a piece of paper, and about half an hour of time without any distractions. If you don't have half an hour, find at least 10 minutes, but it's best to allocate half an hour for it. Turn off your cell phone, shut down your email program, turn off your computer (unless you prefer typing rather than hand-writing). Close your door if you are inside. Do it right now. And if right now is not an appropriate time, open your calendar and schedule the time for this exercise. Because this is the time for creating your life. These 10 to 30 minutes just may turn the rest of your life around. That is how powerful this process is. And if 10 minutes of your time can turn your life around, it may be the most valuable 10 minutes of your life you will ever have. So, take it seriously.

Play Superman

Are you ready? Curious what's coming? Can't wait to get started? OK, here's what you do.

First, imagine that you are a Superman (or a Superwoman) with super powers, and you can do anything at all; anything you can think of is possible. Anything you want to achieve, you will. Anything you want to do, or be, or have, you can. Money is not an issue. You have as much money as you'll ever need, and more. You have as much free time as you'll ever need, and more. You have all the resources, you have all the people you need to help you. You have all the expertise you need, or experts at hand who can help you if you ever need them. You have absolutely no boundaries to your abilities. You can do anything you want. And there is no possibility of failure. With all these resources, with all this money, with all these people to help you, you will always succeed in what you want to do.

Remember, this is only a hypothetical situation, a game. So just play along. Pretend you are a kid playing a superman with super powers, and you can do anything you want, and it will always work out at the end.

Write Your Wild Dreams

Now... If you are given 10 years of a Superman life with all the Superman powers, what would you do in these 10 years with all these resources?

Sit down and start writing. What would you like to do, whom would you like to be, and what would you like to have in the next 10 years if you were a Superman, and anything was possible for you? Write anything and everything that comen and the Midlife Crisis Rescue Team.

Resources

There are many books and online resources to help you in your life transition. I particularly like the book by Suzanne Zoglio "Create A Life That Tickles Your Soul: Finding Peace, Passion, and Purpose." Check it out!

Classes and Seminars

San Francisco Center for Neuro Linguistic Programming

2005/12/06: NLP for Beginners: Discover the psychology of peak performance in everyday life - NLP at our free 2 hour seminar - NLP for Beginners. If you are curious about NLP, this seminar is for you. If you are wondering whether NLP is something you might want to learn, this seminar is for you.

2005/12/10-11: Pure Essential NLP: NLP steps into the 21st century with a unique two day NLP Fundamentals seminar. NLP is a huge field and it would take thousands of hours to master it completely. We painstakingly went back over this mountain of knowledge and handpicked the best, the most useful and the most immediately effective NLP techniques and strategies. We only picked techniques that are powerful, easy to master and that you can rely on to work perfectly day after day. Now we offer them to you in this 2 day intensive seminar on NLP fundamentals.