USING LABELS TO PROGRESS IN LIFE

 By Matata Mercy

What are your desires and what do you actually want to achieve out of life? What things would you love to accomplish and get done.

 

Are there things that are stopping you from doing the things that you would love to do? How many different kinds of assessments have you had in your life that have defined you and made you feel that you are actually what you have attention on. 

This would perhaps start by learning your astrological sign.  This astrological sign made you feel that you were supposed to be a certain way simply because of when and also where you were born.

 If you followed through these labels you would eventually believe that you that which the label actually says you are. 

One thing that i find about people is that they try to use labels to define what they are. Have ever asked someone what they do? 

You will hear them say something like iam a Medical doctor or an Engineer. But you would sit down and think is that all you can in this life of yours? 

All the years you have spent on this earth is only dedicated to the work of medicine? Isn't there something else that you can actually do. 

Supposing your desires changed for your current career as a medical doctor and you now have the desire to venture into the entertainment industry?

 May be you would like start  composing and recording some songs. If you truly would like to do a career shift from medicine into music, then it simply means that you will need to change your label. Now you will start calling yourself a music artist. 

Now what if you have already composed and recorded some songs and the painting bug also starts biting you. And you find yourself now already painting and creating some great art pieces. And people are now starting to order for your art works. 

Are you going to throw away the label of being called a music artist and start calling yourself a painter? Of course you will have to.

 Now in this moment, you now have more than one label, you are a Painter, Medical doctor and also a Music artist. If some one asks you what do you do for a living which label will you give out? Are you a Painter, Medical doctor or you are a Music artist? 

What are you? That's what most people want to avoid, they want to have only one label to their name. For all the years that they do have on earth, they just need one label and that's it. 

That seems to be a very boring life, you should have more than one label out there if you are going to live a fulfilling life. 

If you have one label all to yourself, it simply means that you were either caged in a prison or you were mentally unsound and therefore you couldn't try out many other things out there.

 If you want to live a fulfilling life, you should ensure you build to yourself more than one career. 

This simply means that you will have to yourself more than one label, you will not only be a medical doctor but also a painter, music artist, blogger, novelist and many other things out there. 

You should ensure that you do not turn your current skill set into a permanent label that will have you caged into one career forever. It is actually possible for you to learn new skills out there and build new careers and labels for yourself. 

Sometimes applying a label to yourself can act as a limiting factor and even if you put up a collection of labels like an author, blogger, speaker and many other labels out there. 

This will still not do the work since a bigger box is actually truth be told a box. 

I think the best description would be to be called an Explorer. This is an expression that will actually help you to leave the old boxes behind.

 You should be somebody who cannot be pinned to only one label, keep violating those labels when people want to actually pin you down to them. 

What labels have you been applying to yourself that have been limiting your progress in your career? 

Why don't you just deliberately violate one of those labels so that you can be able to see what will actually happen? 

You could actually end up having some interesting experiences when you just decide to move to the opposite of the label that you are currently holding to yourself and decide to exploit it for some time.