0016 - Life Has No Meaning Except The Meaning You Give It!

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Hi there, this is Andrew Smith International Life Coach with a question for you: The question today is “What is the meaning of your life?”

Many years ago when I first started my own study into Personal Development something I heard Tony Robbins say really challenged my preconceived ideas. He said “Life has no meaning, except for the meaning you give it!”

At first I thought that this statement was a very negative one. Of course life has a meaning I said, even though I knew not everyone knew what it was. I had been taught many Christian beliefs from an early age and these beliefs were the ones I thought everyone should adopt to give meaning and purpose to their lives.

But then I thought about the statement for a long time afterwards, it really troubled me; maybe Tony was right and my preconceived ideas were wrong? The more I puzzled the statement through, the more I realized that the belief system I had been taught was the meaning I had given to my life, which proved to me that both my own set of beliefs and what Tony said were correct at the same time.

As a Life Coach, I am aware that each person has their own unique belief system and it is not my intention to have them adopt mine. However, part of the journey of discovery that I engage in with my clients, is to find out if their belief system is helping them or hindering them from getting to where they want to be in their lives.

I really didn’t like the idea of having different beliefs to the ones I’d been taught and brought up with, beliefs that had worked for millions of others down the centuries. I didn’t want to give up the security and the continuity I felt with my parents and grandparents and yet I understood the principle that if these beliefs were holding me back in my life I needed to synthesize my old beliefs with some new ones that would help to propel me further than I’d been able to get before in my life.

Einstein said “We can’t solve our problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” Maybe a Life Coach is just what you need to help you find a new perspective in your thinking to help you to move on in your life?

I hope that I’ve given you food for thought and if you’d like to speak to me all you have to do is either email me at info@andrewsmithlifecoach.com or call me now on 0800 085 8056 that’s if you’re in the UK or Internationally on +44 114 251 4951 and we can arrange the best time and date for you to experience your own free Life Coaching session.

You’ll be interested to know that the Free Stuff page of my website www.andrewsmithlifecoach.com has this and other inspiring blogs available for you to download and don’t forget to claim the free report “The Four Keys To Your Personal Success.” It’s been great talking to you today. This is Andrew Smith signing off; I hope to be speaking to you again soon, bye for now!