Finding purpose and getting restarted

"start with the end in mind" is how Steve Covney encourages you to develop the habit of having a focus and a vision on where you want to be. With out that you will be floundering around with no direction and getting no where.

My problem of late has been this lack of focus. Whist I have a lot to do, around the house, work and the MSc dissertation I am supposed to be working on I have lost the ability to focus. I've lost interest particularly since work got very hectic trying to keep things afloat and on top of things only to get no support from the parent company and in the end I was made redundant. Which is particularly frustrating as I'd put a lot of other things on hold (MSc) to focus on work.

Now I need to get restarted and it's very hard to get motivated. Family life keeps the days busy but my evening are free again so I really have no excuse. My barrier is the question of what I want to do with my life, more of the same (there are offers) but it didn't leave me satisfied and I don't know that it will cover the costs. or do I do something different?

But I am coming to believe that I need to take a similar approach to finding focus by starting with something. I remember being told or reading that an author starts by getting their words and thoughts down on a page and that once started it was easier to go back and fix the bit at the start.

So thats what I start to do, I'll restart the dissertation and hopefully that will get me back into it. I'll talk with tr course director and see what needs to be done about handing it in at some point and that will hopefully lead me to being able to focus and develop other things and find out my direction in life. And for the rest of my time I'll enjoy spending it with my kids who won't be kids for ever.