Part four – review, renew, resolve

Holidays allow us time to reflect – on life and on work. Do you always get the balance right? Giving yourself some me time allows your mind to switch off and can bring clarity to your thoughts. Just allow the thoughts to come and go, maybe make a note of some insights to come back to once the holiday time comes to an end. Don’t address everything at once or you could use all your time off thinking about when you get back.
Think about any resolutions or goals you had for the new year. Have you achieved them and need new ones? Are you not there yet and need to redefine? Take this opportunity to look at the balance of your life and make sure it is just how you want it. This is the only life you have right now and no one else can make it how you want, you have to do that for yourself.
If finding your way is too difficult or you don’t know what you want try different things until you find your niche or read so called ‘self help’ books for inspiration. Here are a few suggestions.

Inspiration
 Chicken Soup for the Soul
 Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Richard Bach
 Man’s Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl
 The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
 Five People You Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom
 The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, Rachel Joyce

Self Help
 The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari, Robin Sharma
 The Road Less Travelled, M. Scott Peck
 The Chimp Paradox, Dr. Steve Peters
For more prescriptive inspiration why not read autobiographies of your hero or favourite sports person? There are some amazing stories out there from people just like you, be one of them!