Most people want to live a happy, healthy and prosperous life. Why is it that this alludes so many? Unfortunately people are lead to believe that there is a magic wand or silver bullet. Life is so intricate, wonderfully rich and diverse that no simple formula or solution would truly honor the experience of life.
Most human beings are looking for something more or want to improve their life in some way. Humans are not supposed to remain stagnate as advancement is a fundamental element of human evolution, in which we all play an important part.
Tao de Haas, Co-founder of Minds with Integrity is a registered psychotherapist, counsellor and corporate trainer. He has worked with many thousands of people from all walks of life. Themes concerning love, happiness, purpose and meaning, continue to be top of mind for many people.
What intrinsically drives you is largely unconscious and invisible to the outside world. What is visible is your attitude and behavior. The results you get in your life often mirror your beliefs, attitude and behavior. If you don’t like the results you are getting in life, you must first become aware of what drives you.
Most people desire love and happiness, yet they do not know the steps to take to get there. The challenge for most people is they do not know what satisfies or honors who they really are. The key to living a fulfilling, purposeful and meaningful life is to connect with the essence of who you really are. In order to achieve this one must move beyond current beliefs and thinking. One must go within. For if you don't go within, you will certainly go without.
The Life Navigation System
The Life Navigation System is a do-it-yourself coaching and goal setting program. This powerful system focuses on the elements that are the cornerstone to living a happier and more fulfilling life.
The team at Minds with Integrity are qualified professionals from the social sciences, adult learning and multimedia disciplines. They know how the brain, the conscious mind and subconscious mind work. This knowledge, together with over 35 years of combined experience in the personal and professional development industry, has resulted in the creation of the The Life Navigation System. Incorporating the latest neuroscience research, this system is an advanced program to help you achieve more of what you do want and to live a genuinely purposeful and meaningful life.
The Life Navigation System includes the following tools and resources.
Your personal evolution
Mi Evolution helps you to understand your own evolution and why you are uniquely you. Understanding your own evolution will bring you great personal insight; from how you experience love and happiness in your life to how you function, interrelate and interact with the world as you do.
Whilst your history does not have to be your destiny it will greatly influence it. It is useful to know what created your programming, conditioning and beliefs, in other words your roadmap and how you operate in the world. Your roadmap determines the results you get in your life. If you want to change your results, you have to reprogram or redesign your roadmap. And you can’t really change your roadmap until you understand how it was created in the first place.
Mi Evolution is available as an audio file. For a brief overview you can access the text version.
Your needs and values
No matter what you believe about the ultimate purpose and meaning of life, what is important is the way you experience purpose and meaning and how you live your life on a daily basis.
Your experiences will evoke feelings and emotions. It is through your senses that you relate, and experience the world around you. Your feelings and emotions let you know what is important and of value to you and what is not. It is therefore vital to know what your needs and values are and to discover why these specific needs and values are meaningful to you. It is also essential to discover what is fundamental to you; what satisfies the essence of who you are, and what does not.
Mi Needs and Mi Values are two great self assessment tools that put your needs and values under the microscope. Having your own personalized profiles and action plans will provide you with insight, clarity, direction and focus ensuring you are well placed to continue your journey.
Your beliefs
A major factor that stops most people from living a more meaningful, purposeful and fulfulling life is their limiting beliefs.
Beliefs underpin everything; from your feelings to your thinking, from your actions to the result you get from those actions. Your beliefs form your belief system and your belief system influences everything you do; every decision you make and every action you take. Once you become aware of, examine and reflect upon your beliefs, you can update them so they help, rather than hinder you.
Sadly most people create a reality that matches their beliefs, rather than change their beliefs to create the outcomes they desire. They unconsciously settle for mediocrity (or worse) because that is all their belief system has allowed them to think was possible. Most people will defend their belief system even if they logically and consciously know it works against them. This is not because people are stubborn or unintelligent. For most people their belief system, accumulated over many years and many experiences, provides security and it is familiar and safe. Challenging a belief system often feels unsettling, uncomfortable and even wrong.
If only people realized they were capable of so much more.
Some basic self awareness will help you to achieve so much more. It is not rocket science and with the right guidance and support you too can overcome a limiting belief system.
Your desires, goals and taking inspired action
To live a happy, healthy and prosperous life it is essential that your desires strongly align with your needs and values. When your desires and goals are aligned to your needs and values you will feel connected, fulfilled and content more often.
Many people continue to try and find happiness, as well as purpose and meaning, in the material world. This approach only fills the void short term and it can become a vicious cycle, ultimately fuelling the level of discontent and dissatisfaction within society. In the end, attempting to find happiness in the material world offers little meaningful or long term satisfaction.
Mi Desires is a fun and engaging visual exercise that creates your own animated vision board, helping you to more clearly define your dreams and desires.
Without decisive and right action, your desires are nothing more than wishful thinking. Unfulfilled desires cause frustration, unhappiness and discontent. Nothing is going to miraculously change without you taking action. If you choose to rely on wishing thinking alone and thoughts of abundance, good luck. Very little will ever be achieved until you take action.
Mi Goals and Mi Actions guides you through the process of setting goals that are aligned to your needs, values and desires. In other words your goals represent what is most important to you.
It is said, the closer you move towards your goals, the closer your goals move to you. Mi Goals and Mi Actions help you stay focused and on track.
Understanding how all the pieces fit together and taking practical steps will see you successfully move towards your goals and desires.
Your personalized journal
Taking the time to record and reflect on your thoughts, behavior and actions is a fundamental part of developing your insight and awareness.
Increasing your level of awareness and insight is an essential element of self growth and personal transformation, achieving your goals and living your life according to what is important to you. Regularly updating Mi Journal is a very simple, constructive and empowering habit to develop.
Your personalized dashboard
Consider the dashboard of a car. It provides a snapshot of the key performance indicators of the car so at any point in time the driver can view the temperature gauge, the speedometer and gas or fuel gauge. Without these performance indicators the driver would be significantly disadvantaged. These performance indicators the driver, and as a result the driver is able to make more informed decisions, which improves the overall performance and health of the car.
The same rationale applies to most successful organizations. Whilst the performance indicators may vary, the objective remains the same.
Mi Dashboard applies the same principles on an individual and more personalized basis. Mi Dashboard helps track your progress and raises your level of awareness about how you are performing in key areas; when you are on track and when you are off track. This knowledge and insight helps you make more conscious and informed decision about how you wish to live your life; what's working, what's not and what you can do to make positive changes in your life.
Where to from here?
Unfortunately most people approach life without clear guidance or direction. If you are living your life by default, now is the time to start living your life by design. The Life Navigation System gives you the skills, tools, direction and support to live the life you not only desire but deserve.
Take this important and necessary first step in self discovery. It might be the most important and empowering decision you will ever make. Don’t be like most people and wait until you are lost, desperate and in despair about where your life is heading. Take this opportunity to expand your awareness and to develop clarity, focus and direction in your life.