I’ve always been someone who believed working really hard would produce really impressive results, today, I have come to appreciate that there is worth and fuller living by doing that work form a place of inspiration and “self authenticity,” operating on what gives me the most peace and balance versus a place of fear and must.
Over the past few months something pivotal has shifted within me. While I have had passions and desires to do what feels the most intrinsic and authentic to my nature, I’ve resisted embracing the notion that I could do such a thing, giving me nothing more than a gripping sense of frustration and anxiety. Now however, both confusing and awesome, the voice and that passion is releasing and happening in just the right way, at just the right pace.
A plethora of life coaches, teachers, yogi masters, and certainly a junk pile of preachers and motivational speakers all agree there is a “secret” formula for living the life you’ve always dreamed of, however it’s simply not true; the magic is in simply accept and opening up to life, taking chances, embracing whatever you fear, and the beauty of your purposeful living will reveal itself and like me, you will find it’s the only way to move forward and truly access your passions, your purpose.
How do we know we are genuinely access our purpose? How do we recognize what that is exactly? When is the popular saying “doing what you love” actually become real and not some pop culture excuse for not doing the work with think we’re supposed to be grinding day after day, year after year? Effort and work are not the way we shape the Universe to our sense of compatibility and inner congruency, but in the listening to your own voice and letting that all-knowing, safe and trusted intuition guide you. I’m no master at this by any means, I am just beginning my own journey toward this knowing, this purposeful living, but I can tell you having experienced what this is, I cannot ever go back to not permitting myself to be stifled, or stymied form putting out what feels the most authentic to me.
I doing what I love, which for me is helping others reach their fullest potential with their projects and their careers, for so long had me believing there was this predetermined path or check list I had to follow, not being at all natural to my own creative make up or emotional wiring, and it left me feeling incredibly frustrated, not at all believing in myself, and while I was producing for my clients and my projects at an acceptable degree, I was not eliciting the truest voice for me and me alone and consequently I was always feeling others were more accomplished, more together, and assume they must be happier and had life in balance.
Hold on. Not so fast.
For as long as I can remember, I choose to give my intuitive power away, not trust my own natural abilities and instead looked outside myself for validation and the answers for where I was supposed to be and what I was supposed to be doing. So often at night I would just lie down, face in the floor and wait for some sign, some permission from anyone to “do what makes you feel whole and happy” and well... you already know this next part right? The answers are inside you. All of them, right there, the quiet vibration of peace and knowing in your heart and your head (mostly your heart) that it’s OK to do what you want for you, just you. And that can be doing for others, if that’s what gives you joy and fills you up.
Learning and investigating and experimenting are all healthy and something I definitely do myself all the time (every yoga class or hike or run or chance meeting I find out more about my purpose) but in my reality, the undeniable sense that I had no other choice but to listen and act on the desire for purpose that I had to make changes in my thinking and my life or be faced with sickness and misery - not an option and I’m not for you either if given the choice.
