In your work or in your life, every day, you are running a race whether you do it consciously or not. Some of us choose to run our own race whilst others just go along with the pack, locally and globally.

We are all a part of an eclectic, Universal race and yet we still believe we are the only person on the planet when it comes to our view of the world.

We constantly judge, dismiss or disagree with other people’s viewpoints and yet there are still so many of us living our lives according to the wishes of others and the sad part is – not many of us realize this. It happened as we were growing and learning and shaping our future.

We forgot for a moment that we have an opinion, a viewpoint, beliefs and values and then that moment  became an hour which turned into days, months, weeks and now a lifetime of running someone else’s race.

How did that happen? Did it happen when we were children and were told that children should be seen and not heard. Or was it at school when our teacher told us to “stop being silly” because we got creative with our school work?

Maybe it happened when we met the love of our life and found out that what we believed wasn’t true at all because our significant other knows best and he/she said that our beliefs were ridiculous. Have you noticed that women in particular always make the other person right?

Maybe politicians, local government and our environments dictated our opinions.

Or maybe we just stopped believing in ourselves, our dreams, our aspirations and put limitations on our accomplishments. Besides, it is so much easier and simpler to just be part of the status quo, isn’t it?

Your inner gremlins might sound a bit like this:

1. “What would be the point of being successful, wealthy, joyful, it sounds like a lot of hard work and life is so simple when we don’t aspire to greatness.”
2. “Yes, let’s just run this race that has been “programmed” into our hard drive, don’t rock the boat. Don’t make plans, set goals and achieve them.  Too hard.”
3. “After all there are already way too many people doing what we could do and they are great at it. Can’t see the point really
4. “Imagine if we went to all that trouble and then didn’t succeed. Be a waste of time don’t you think? Yes, much better to not even bother. All that learning and growing for nothing.”

What do you think? Any of these sound familiar?

Which side of the fence are you on?

Do you get a kick out of taking on new challenges like my friend and colleague Zoe (Lifenergy.net) who is running her first marathon in her 40′s, taking her business to new exciting heights and still has the time to enjoy the beauty of nature, to nurture her family, take beautiful photographs and create beautiful paintings?.  Zoe is willing to play a bigger game and run her own race on her own terms.

OR are you more like my first example, putting it all into the “too hard” basket?

Either one is fine as long as you are happy with your choice and you aren’t kidding yourself. Life has a way of sneaking up on us when we least expect it if we don’t take our turn at the helm.

A question for you : If you continue to live as you are for the next 10 years and you are still doing exactly what you are doing now, will you be happy with that and be able to look back with a smile on your face?

Only you know the answer to that and if you answered NO then what will you do about it? From my own experience I can tell you it is never too late to start.

As a coach my absolute focus in on supporting women to run their own race in life, in business and in every other area of their lives so they can stand tall and live authentically and on purpose. If you need support, drop  me an email and let’s get you back on track.