A few weeks ago I launched my book, Kickstart Your Life. In the book I ask some questions – and that’s what I’m doing here today.

This month – cold, dark January, when we can feel at a very low ebb – can best be used as thinking time, preparation time, seed-time.  But only if we ask the right questions of ourselves.

Let’s create a positive frame of mind. What’s your starting point? 

• Maybe you are looking for your path in life, or have come to a barrier and wonder how to climb over it
• Maybe you are facing challenges, whether in your personal or working life, and feel in need of inspiration
• Maybe you’re a professional who wants to take your career to the next level
• Maybe you are a teacher or trainer, looking for ways to help and inspire your students
• Maybe you are asking yourself what your purpose in life really is.  What have I really achieved?  

It might be a big birthday, becoming a parent, facing a health scare; you might feel frightened about the future or experience regret for the past. Times of reflection and evaluation are creative and exciting as well as challenging, and you can rise to them with energy and renewed enthusiasm for what is still lies ahead.

Whatever you do, try to be the best that you can possibly be. That’s a great mission to have.

Your mission could be, if you’re a singer, to sing a little better. When you’re in the bath, sing louder. If you can walk fast, train to walk even faster. Your mission could be that you paid all your bills, created financial stability and a sound structure for your family: a house, a roof over your head, food in your belly. So many people in this world don’t have that right now; to be a good provider and to create security for the next generation is a noble purpose.

Wherever you are right now, and whatever challenges you face, I want to help you find your purpose and focus on the goals you want to achieve in the future.

In my next blog, we’ll be looking at the questions that can help us discover how to live our lives in ways that are true to ourselves. Because finding our purpose is the most powerful thing that any of us will ever do.