Make a Spring Wish List for Personal Transformation

What do you really want that you can’t live without?
It’s time to plant a seed, and watch it grow from there.

We all already know that when winter still lingers in our backyards, and it’s already outliving its welcome, way past its snowy ‘White Christmas’ magic, and certainly way past its New Year icy magic. Deep inside, you’re beginning to grow restless, impatient somehow, wondering if something bigger, and better is coming your way, something to beat the ‘same old, same old’ out of your predictable, seemingly lifeless route. You know it’s time to re-evaluate your path. Its time to give your life a 360-degree scan, and find out where you are, and why you are stuck here.

For most wise gardeners, winter is the time to plan for the next spring’s glorious colours, the time to collect the seeds of desired plants. When spring eventually comes, the gardener is ready to start cultivation, with the seeds gathering patiently over the winter, and with the matriculated plans of the desired plots in hand.

For most of us, it takes a high degree of courage and honesty to admit that there is some thing missing, that something needs changes. If you cannot be honest with yourself and listen to your own voice, who will? Here comes the big question: “What do you really want to do with your life?” For most women, the given question comes with different answers at various stages of our life. You wouldn’t get a concrete answer if you don’t know what your heart truly desires as well as its real needs. Are you really listening to your inner voice these days?

To make a wish list of personal transformation for the coming spring, you need to follow these simple steps:
Know yourself
Ask yourself this question, and take time to write down the words that come with the big picture of who you are? Starting at this moment, write down all the positive qualities that describe you best, for at least an hour. For the coming week, starting to get more specific with the details. Take your time, it may take longer than you expect. Keeping a journal at hand is an excellent exercise in the journey of self-discovery. Soon enough, you will be surprised and delighted that you are a masterpiece in process.

Making a wish list
Based on the finds of self-discovery, start writing down of who you want to be, and who you want to grow into. Be bold, and make sure your growing list is true to what you really want. Be creative, and use doodles, or drawings, or pictures of objects, a pressed flowers or pieces of fabric, whatever comes to hand that represents you. Be imaginative; visualize who this new person will be. This process may take a few days, or weeks to complete, but in the end it begins forming a big picture of a “New You”. After you collect information about yourself, it is time to sort them out. After categorizing them into groups, you should begin see the patterns of your unique character. By that point, you should be able to write a clear summary statement on yourself honestly. Now, start writing a list of ten wishes based on your discovery, and how you hope to grow into this new person.

Growing into it
By keeping and reviewing this list everyday, you should see some progress. Be kind to yourself: planting a seed in the garden, it takes time, patience and care to watch this new person grow. Finding your authentic self is worth the time and effort. In the end, you finally come to terms with your own true self and your passions, after many years of outside influences and assumptions. The true purpose of this self-discovery is to change how you look at everything in your life.

Here is a book that could help you to gain this insight on self-discovery. Nothing is more powerful than knowing who you are and your passions.
The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything.
By Ph. D. Ken Robinson