If you’re here, then maybe you’re searching. Perhaps you’re longing for a deeper sense of purpose in your life, and more connection to what really matters to you. Maybe you’re not even sure what you’re dreams and priorities are, so you want to gain clarity first. The changes you might want in life could involve family and friends, career, health and self-care, spiritual growth, love relationships, giving back to the world, creating what only you can create.
Maybe you know what you want, and are struggling to make it happen. Perhaps you feel people or circumstances around you are holding you back. If your kids are still young, you might feel you can’t move forward in your own life until they are older. Perhaps your job feels dead-end, but you don’t think you can change the situation or find anything better right now. Or it could be that you spend time with people (at work or in relationships at home) where you feel everyone is working against each other rather than on the same side.
You want to overcome those obstacles and finally do the things that would make your life easier, more meaningful, more fun, and more connected to the things and people that truly matter to you. You feel you could probably do anything if you only knew how and where to focus your attention, to get over these hurdles.
–S.G.
Above all, you want to get in touch – and stay in touch – with what makes you feel inspired and alive. Your core values and deep desires are what keep that fire burning inside of you. You want to find them and live them every day.
Finding and staying connected with what makes you feel alive starts with connecting with who you really are – the good, bad and the ugly – and embracing all of it as an important part of you. It means giving up perfectionism, silencing that inner critic in your head, and learning to love the messiness in your life.
Whatever your goals are, deep down you’re longing to experience the ease of being unapologetically and authentically you every step of the way. You want to let yourself be who you are, and do the things you really love to do. You also know that when you find the courage to love and openly share this version of yourself, only then can you really connect with those around you. You can let them see and love you for who you are, and in turn, you can love them for all their strengths and imperfections.
Not wanting life to pass you by, you’re ready to let go of the trivial things, so you can stay focused on what’s really important to you. You want to become the best version of yourself, to play big, make a difference, be fully alive. You know that from here, anything’s possible.
– A.H