WHAT IS A PERSONAL MANIFESTO?

Facing the truth and doing something about it involves making a pact with yourself that says you will do whatever it takes to make your life work in the present.

I call this pact a personal manifesto.

This manifesto means you are willing to give up big goals and fantasies of salvation in order to deal with what is true about your life now, and make it work.

Our job is to be an example of a life that is working.

A life that is working is one in which your complaints are at a minimum and, although everything may not be perfect, it works.

You have more than enough money, more than enough love and support, more than enough satisfaction out of the things that you do and the company you keep.

When you make a personal manifesto, you will start to by taking care of the ‘real matters’ at hand. These matters are those things that are not working for you on a daily basis. Those things could include a relationship that gives you trouble, finances that are less than stellar, a job you hate, or anything else that plagues you and doesn’t seem to be resolving itself.

The personal manifesto does not apply to people in dire straits: it is useful for every single person who is not happy, regardless of his or her income level or social status.

Even people at the top of their game sometimes suffer from wishing it would all go away tomorrow. Such fruitless yearning can plague anyone who has neglected his or her own wisdom. The yearning may be a result of neglecting the signs that you need a change, a rest, a resolution to a problem or an antidote to the situation.

To make a personal manifesto with yourself, first look at all aspects of your life to determine what is working and what is not. This is not the time to dream big and desire for the ideal.

It is not the time to set goals.

It is the time to evaluate what is true for you right now.

Ask yourself:

What makes me happy?

My home?

My job?

My family?

What is not satisfying?

Do I want to be in better physical shape?

Do I want a better relationship with my parent, my spouse or my child?

Making a personal manifesto does not require that you have solutions to the less desirable elements of your life, just that you take stock of them..

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