What gives you pleasure?

I lay in bed a couple of days ago and gave myself a lie in treat and decided to listen to a radio show through my iphone.  The topic was all about ‘what gives you pleasure’.  As I lay there thinking I knew the answer, it became evidently clear that I needed to go deeper into this subject.

Since becoming a Life Change Specialist, I have put my heart and soul into helping people transform their ordinary lives into lives they love.  In return, I get great pleasure from watching my clients step into their unique shoes by discovering their real self.  The self that loves their life. 

Loving your job and gaining pleasure from it, is only one aspect of living, there has to be pleasure in other areas too.  And as a solopreneur, you can often get caught up in the running of your business (and everything else that comes with it) and before you realise it, you’ve forgotten what it was like to explore new ways of bringing pleasure into your life.

For the rest of the day, I made it my mission to speak to myself (and yes I did it out loud), asking over and over “what gives me pleasure”.  It was amazing how I started to discover myself all over again and realise that unintentionally, I had let some of the fun slip from my life.

Immediately, I began to do some fun stuff for me.  Singing in the shower, making myself laugh, wearing my best clothes, I even took 2 hours off work to visit a tea shop I had never been to.  By the time I got home, I was so uplifted and even more connected to myself that I made a promise to bring more pleasure into my life.

In that moment, a light bulb went on and I thought, if I have done this, then I know for sure that others will have too.  So my question for you to ponder today, is simply, “what gives you pleasure”.