Creating The Life You Want

Creating a vision of a happier Life objective: To generate a sense of hope by creating a vision of what you’d like your life to look like in six months, one year, and two years’ time. We all have dreams and aspirations and working towards them, having a vision, an image creates a higher activity in reaching your goals.  Its natural whenever we make a big change in our lives, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. In making the decision to stop unhelpful habits such as using drugs, alcohol or other unwanted unproductive habits such as procrastination, smoking, overspending on your personal allowance etc.  You might feel excited, but also anxious about change, also frightened or sad about letting go of what is familiar. That’s normal and understandable. With all those difficult feelings of loss to maintain change in behaviour and habits also “who will I be after? “it’s hard at times during this process to get in touch with a sense of hope for success, hope for relief from the addiction, or unhealthy habits and hope for a happier future. Having a vision and support through therapy when going through this can serve as a powerful support on your road to change and recovery where needed. That’s why visualising your goals at the beginning of your process to change helps to keep to the goals set. Do you know what you want in your life? Is there anything in the way of your working toward what you want? creates a vision statement to help you “keep your eyes on the prize”, the outcome will be living a happier life. First, make a list of the things you want in your life. There are no right or wrong answers, and you don’t have to be realistic. Just go for it, whether it’s going for a job, moving to a new place, buying a house, taking a vacation, falling in love, having children, or simply having peace of mind.  If you want, you can create a collage of images from magazines or download photos or images from the internet instead. Things I Want in My Life to look like. Through therapy we can work on looking at your needs, working through negative thoughts, building resilience, challenging yourself to create change while being supported. Create the life you want.