Gaining clarity and focus in your life is a pretty tough ask a lot of the time. Although you might feel like you’re the only one, everyone feels as if they’re not sure what they’re doing sometimes. Feeling like you’re just wandering through life without any real purpose is pretty common. Of course, you don’t necessarily have to have any purpose. Some people are happy to just keep going and see where life takes them. But you could also be someone who feels like they need a bit more clarity and focus, with more of an idea of where they’re going and how to get there.
If you’re looking for some more clarity in your life’s mission or even just what your next goal should be, you need to take the right steps to get there. You might be surprised by some of the ways you can gain clarity in your life and focus on what you want.
Give Yourself a Daily Mantra
When you know what you want but you’re not sure how to get it, it can be hard to know where to start. You can end up veering off path easily or you might feel like you lack the confidence to really go after what you want. One of the things that might help in this situation is to have a daily mantra, or even several of them, that you repeat to yourself. It might feel a bit silly at first, but the more you repeat a phrase about yourself and what you want, the more you can come to believe it.
A daily mantra could be many things. There are plenty of examples that you can find online if you want a ready-made mantra to fit into your life. It could be about who you are and how you feel about yourself, such as “I am worthy as I am”. Or it could be about how you live your life, such as “Be a warrior, not a worrier”. But if you can’t find something that you vibe with, you can always make up your own mantra. It should be something that is meaningful to you and that you can connect with. So if saying “I’m a badass” or “I won’t get involved with office politics” is what connects with you, make it your daily mantra.
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Clear Your Mind with Mindfulness and Meditation
You might think that to gain clarity and focus in your life, you need to do a lot of thinking. But it might actually help to try and clear your mind instead. Using techniques like mindfulness and meditation can help you to deal with stress and give you an opportunity to get more clarity. If you want to set yourself up for the day, a little meditation or mindfulness in the morning can be a fantastic way to get yourself in the right frame of mind.
Mindfulness is based on the concept of staying in the present. When practicing mindfulness, your focus should be on acceptance of your thoughts and feelings. Whether it’s a thought, an emotion, or a physical feeling or sensation, the idea is that you acknowledge it and let it pass you by. Mindfulness is excellent to combine with some deep breathing. You can focus on your breathing, letting other thoughts and sensations affect you but always bringing your thoughts back to your breathing. It’s not about achieving a state where your mind is empty of all thoughts but about focusing on the present moment instead of getting caught up worrying about the past or future.
Ask Yourself Questions
We all sit and contemplate various issues to work out our thoughts and feelings on things. But how often do you actively ask yourself questions about what you want to do and what matters in your life? By asking yourself important questions, you can gain clarity on what you want from life and give yourself focus for how you’re going to get them. There are lots of big questions that you can ask yourself about different areas of your life, and smaller questions that you might ask to really get into the nitty-gritty of what you want.
You might ask yourself if it’s the right time to change jobs or whether you want a family. What matters most to you in life? What importance does money have to you? What do you need to do to feel happy about your health? Asking yourself about the who, what, why, and how of your life could help you to define a purpose and to design a path that’s going to help you focus on where you’re going.
Channel Your Focus
Sometimes the best way to be more focused on what you want is to channel your focus into something physical. One way that you can do this is by writing down or even drawing something that represents what you want to focus on. You could try using Wiccan symbols as a way to focus your energy and give yourself the clarity that you’re looking for. You don’t necessarily have to be spiritual or religious for this to work for you. It can help you in a similar way to saying a mantra, allowing you to focus your mental energy on one thing. There are different sigils that you can use, or you could even make up something that has personal meaning to you.
Writing down your goals could also help you to channel your focus. You might write a list of things that you’re aiming to do or just write down something important every day, similar to saying a daily mantra. Putting it down on paper can help you to strengthen your focus and make you more determined to get what you want.
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Listen to Your Body
Being self-aware can help you to develop the clarity and focus that you need in your life. One of the ways you can be more self-aware is by listening to what your body tells you. By understanding what your body wants and how it feels, you can get better clarity on how you feel generally. It can help you to define whether you’re happy, what’s causing you stress, if you feel healthy, and more. When you listen to your body, you can identify the things that make you stressed and the things that make you feel relaxed or happy.
Write Yourself a Letter
Writing down your vision for the future can be a smart way to define your goals and improve your focus on going after what you want. You could just write a list of goals, but another way to do it could be to write a letter to yourself for the future. Either write a letter from the perspective of now and what you want for the future or imagine yourself a year or more from now and write about what you think your life will look like. Imagining your future can help you to create a concrete plan for what it will be like and what you need to do to get there.
Take a Break
You might feel like to focus on what matters most in your life, you have to stay busy. But if you keep pushing yourself to keep going, you might not have the time to reflect on what you really want. It can also be hard to get the focus that you need because you’re overworked and tired. Taking a break can help to solve this, whether it’s sitting at home for a long weekend or going on vacation.
If you need clarity and focus, take some time to concentrate on yourself and what would bring you happiness.
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