Go Get a Life!: Seven Meditations That Will Change Your Life

By Dr Robert Perryment MA. LLD.

Have you ever felt that you were drifting, that one week just seemed to drift into the next and that you were just not getting anywhere?
Are your relationships in a mess, your work not inspiring you, short of money, short of time, frustrated?

Then these seven meditations are for you. This small book will take you less than an hour to read, but I guarantee that you will come back to it over and over again throughout your life.

Be prepared for your life to change for the better, because that is what it has done for everyone who has followed the reading with the practice that is urged - ENJOY!

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Dec 31, 2013
• ISBN: 9781483515250

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Meditation 1 - Chart your Life

You will never reach your destination if you don’t know where you are going! Set achievable goals for the future and then work backwards working out the details and charting the course of your life.

Imagine that you were setting out in a small boat, intending to sail to the other side of the world. You do not take a chart or even a compass. You have no idea how long it might take. It would be difficult to know what provisions you would need to complete the journey or where you might stop off on the way to check your position and refurbish your vessel. You just launch off, running before the wind, hoping that you do not sail off the end of the world. If you just happen to make a landfall in the country of your dreams, you would have to have been extremely lucky.

This is what the vast majority of people do when they embark on the voyage of life. With little more than a sketch map of where they want to go, they set off, and are swept along by the tides and currents and occasionally lashed by the storms of life. Sometimes, their initial launch came from a dynamic teacher at school, who prompted an interest in a certain direction, or they followed in the wake of a parent or a favourite relative, but many people cast off with only a vague idea of what they want to do with their lives and no idea where they will end up. After the maiden voyage, there might have been numerous attempts to navigate successfully, but being in the right place at the right time is left to Lady Luck.

A careful investigation of successful individuals will show a common denominator, they all knew precisely where they were going, and had a timespan planned so they could chart their progress with the fewest possible deviations.

Have you got a plan?

Do you know exactly where you are going?

If not, how can you ever expect to get there?

It is so easy, so obvious. I don’t know why everyone doesn’t create one. First take a time scale. Where do you want to be in, say, three years time? Make it one year if you prefer. What do you want to be doing at that time? How will you achieve your aim?

If, for example, you are considering your job: what do you want to be doing at the end of this time scale? What responsibilities would this entail? What sort of salary would you expect to be receiving?

What will you have to achieve in the next three years in order to fulfil this ambition. On the way to your three-year ambition, what will you have to have achieved by the end of the second year?

Is that target achievable?

What needs to happen by the end of the first year to ensure that you are moving towards you desired destination?

Are you getting the picture?

If you are, you will realise that now you must consider where you want to be in six months time, and that will require you to have completed six monthly targets. This in turn will lead you to what you want to achieve by the end of next month… Inevitably, you will be encouraged to decide just what you want to achieve next