What's the most LIFE CHANGING insight you've recently gained?

I have been working in the areas of traumatic growth and resilience for some time now.

Self-awareness precedes inner strength and personal resilience and there is no benchmark for resilience without some form of adversity. I believe that without adversity we do not develop the necessary skills to meet life's challenges. Like a healthy immune system, our minds and emotional behaviours benefit from exposure to testing circumstances and the wise-minded will take relatable & transferable lessons with them from those circumstances to other life areas where they will have the opportunity to grow and navigate to their personal desired states. Free from unhelpful anchors to the past and unwarranted fears about the future.

I believe that I am well-tested and well-versed in these areas. Aside from a lifetime in the emergency services I have navigated several large transitions in health, career and relationships. Then I had the educational aspects of Kain Ramsay's lessons in The Academy of Modern Applied Psychology including the 'what-do-I-see-from-my-deathbed exercise.'

What will be my legacy?

My life-changing insight came recently while sitting at a traffic light driving away from the hospital.

There is absolutely no guarantee to the time we have.......

I saw that perfectly clearly, not in an abstract way but rather in a crystal clear recognition that every action I take, in every decision of every day has to be in alignment with the purpose and vision that I have claimed.

Time is never abundant Time is always passing in this linear flow and we DO NOT get the opportunity to swim back upstream.

Keep your eye on your purpose and vision, reevaluate and make sure that your decisions are bringing you closer to the goals you have set, and ensure the ecology of the goals remains valid.

An Achologist whom I hold in high regard reminded me during a recent Code of Ethics training that more time invested in a mistake, just because of the time and effort already invested in that mistake, only makes for a bigger mistake.

Spend your time from a 'wise-mind' space because wisdom in action is discernment and we all need to be shrewd investors of this most valuable asset.