What's your intention? 🤓

We went to the local town fair this weekend and ran into a few acquaintances who we hadn’t seen for a while.

We got talking about my lifestyle, which involves a lot of travelling (we’re going to Canada on Saturday as part of a home exchange for two weeks), and people kept saying “Oh, it sounds really amazing, would be great to do something similar…”

And I said to them: “You know what it takes in order to be able to do that? Intention”

You need to set a clear intention. You need to know what exactly you want, and make a point of planning for it, and actually do something about it.

It’s the same for whatever you want in life. First, you need to know what you want. And what you don’t want. And then NOT spend precious years of your life “wishing things were better”, “thinking that one day maybe”, “if only….”, or, the real killer: “it is what it is - 😱!!!”.

As a veterinarian, you can come clear with yourself, and set an intention to decide to find a way to enjoy your job, no matter what. You can set the intention to set up your life in a way that you’ll never feel trapped, or powerless, or suffocated by your profession.

Once you set the intention, and start looking for ways to fulfil it, your brain will start coming up with ideas and solutions, and a bit of out-of-the-box-thinking. But this can only happen if you open up the door to possibilities. If you’re thinking that “well, this is just the way it is, I don’t HAVE to love my job and my life”, then you’ll fulfil that thought and keep living the same life.

Once you start making changes, for example experimenting with different working hours, or working on becoming more confident in surgeries, or dipping your feet in a new speciality, you’ll see what works and what doesn’t, and slowly you’ll make your way to the life you really want to live.

It doesn’t happen in a day. It’s taken me several years of adjustments and work on myself and a LOT of trials and fails! But if you’re willing to take the risk of leaving your comfort zone (as a friend put it: “swimming in a sea of mediocrity”) I promise you, it is 100% possible to live the dream life as a veterinarian or anything else, live that life you dreamt about as a kid.

So how do you ACTUALLY do it? Let me break it down for you:
1) Brainstorm all the crazy ideas and dreams about your life you don’t even dare to think about right now (Travelling, being amazing at surgeries, have more free time, love your job, specialise in orthopaedics, move house, all of it).

2) Look at everything, and choose a few you’ll prioritise for now. Then create a plan for when you want to have fulfilled these ideas and dreams.

3) Now, brainstorm HOW you’re going to do it. Go all in, be daring and playful, and see what your brain comes up with. Then pick the most logical steps and map them out so you know WHEN what has to happen

4) Be willing to adjust along the way and scrap whatever doesn’t work for you. I thought I wanted my own veterinary clinic; turns out I don’t but HECK, did I learn a lot along the way!!

Need help cracking open that brilliant mind of yours that may be a bit stuck for ideas right now? Reach out for a free 50 min consult, and let’s see what’s possible for you. Sometimes all it takes is the right question, at the right time.

In your corner,

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