The Five W’s of Life

What are the Five W’s of Life? Really quite simple : Who, What, When, Where and Why?

Who you are is what makes you special
What lies ahead will always be a mystery
When life pushes you over, push back harder
Where there are choices to make, make the one you won’t regret
Why things happen will never be certain.

Let’s explore this further.

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Who you are is very definitely what makes you special. Here I’m talking about who you inherently are. Who you are when you are at your absolute best. That higher vibrational self that knows and demonstrates the greatness of being connected to your higher self and the higher vibrational energy of the universal consciousness.

What lies ahead will always be a mystery. As much as we think we are in control, there will always be something that comes along and changes the direction of our perceived future. This doesn’t mean that you leave your entire life to chance. It’s rather that you need to be more self-inspired to be in control to the extent that you are able to be. Planning your future and working towards very definite goals, can keep you more in control and more able to predict what you future will be. It’s way better to at least have some view of what your future looks like. This is how we invoke the law of attraction. Visualising a future that aligns to your dreams, your expectations and your capabilities, as they evolve, is absolutely how you manifest the future that you want. You may never get it 100% right, I’m not sure that there are many people who do, but at least you’ll be much closer than if you just leave everything to chance. Some mystery is great, but knowing is even better.

When life pushes you over, push back harder. The majority of us are not defeatist in any way. And that’s great – it’s a strength that we all want to have. The ability to get back up and try harder. To get back up and try again, or regroup, re-assess and make better choices. It really is all about knowing when to push back. Sometimes we can just let go. And I think there are a lot of us who find it difficult to know when to let go. For some reason, we push back and hold on for far too long. It’s all about finding that perfect balance for your life, some formula that works for you even if it is only that it works for you 80% of the time.

Where there are choices to make, make the one that you won’t regret. This is a powerful statement! Most of us are too afraid to make a choice that we won’t regret. We live our lives dictated to by our fears and it’s our fear of what the future holds, that sets us on a path to making decisions that we do regret. How many times have you said to yourself : I knew I shouldn’t have done this! I knew I should have chosen differently! This feeds into what lies ahead is a mystery. Because we don’t know exactly what the choice we make will result in, we don’t make it. Or, because we do know what the choice will result in, we don’t make the choice. Think about it!

Why things happen will never be certain. Take it in stride and move forward is what we’re all told. This is much easier said than done though. This really applies to the really big things that happen to us that are out of our control. We can never really know why some things happen to us. It is said that bad things happen to good people and that’s a great statement. Because this helps us to not see ourselves from a victim perspective. Knowing that even when you have considered every aspect of a certain situation, we have no way of knowing with absolute certainty, that we will achieve the desired outcome.

It’s really all about working towards a life that is the life you want. It’s not about working towards a life that you want in the future – whatever it is you’re working towards, it must be for the immediate future – like ten minutes from now, or tomorrow morning, or tomorrow night, but not later than that. You want to be experiencing a joyful life every day. Of course your life isn’t going to be absolute pure bliss 100% of the time, but if you can get it as close to 100% as possible, then you’re doing a brilliant job. And you know that if you’re working towards creating a wonderful immediate future, your absolute future will unfold exactly as you intend it to!

So give yourself the acknowledgement that you need when you need it. Don’t be so hard on yourself. Love yourself like you would love someone really close to you. Treat yourself like you would treat someone really close to you. You come first, ever and always – don’t forget that!