LIFE SHIFTS & CHANGES
Make a Significant Shift By Asking Yourself Just One Question
It’s a simple query with complex answers but it’s what you do within twenty minutes of answering this question that matters most.
As summer winds down and fall beckons, my coaching clients and I have focused our self-care, giving each week a theme by which to abide: repair, realign, prepare, and now, we shift! This is my favorite form of care — the willingness and ability to move, to change one’s circumstances by making a change and taking a leap, no matter how small.
This is the part of changing one’s life that most people have the most trouble with — the part where they actually change something! Most of us operate on fear and anxiety, basing our decisions on events that have happened in the past (fear), and events that might or could happen in the future (anxiety). This is what keeps us stuck. When we make decisions based on fear and anxiety, we often make terrible decisions or make no decisions at all.
If nothing changes, nothing changes.
To shift your circumstances overall, you will have to create a change in one particular circumstance in your life. One small alteration will create a ripple effect in your life and soon, a series of shifts will follow. This is why it’s important to make sure your decisions are well-informed, based on your core desires, needs, passions, and purpose.
Four Questions to Ask Yourself
The following practice will either be the simplest thing you can do to create an immediate shift in your life or the most challenging. This week, commit to changing just one circumstance in your life without hesitation or too much thought of what will happen next. Here’s how to do it”
- Ask yourself, “What or who makes me unhappy?”
- Answer yourself and to make it more real, write down the answer(s).
- Do one thing within 20 minutes of writing your list to change or remove what makes you unhappy.
- If you have more than one thing on your list, plan on doing one thing each day to change or remove each item.
The key to this practice is the belief that nothing is more important than your happiness and peace-of-mind. Do not think about what will happen next, other than the fact that you will be happier and healthier when you change or remove this item from your list and your life. When you remove the people, circumstances, and habits that do not serve you or bring you joy, you will open the passageway for better energy and more blessings to enter.
Faith and fear cannot exist in the same place at the same time. You will have to choose one.
Most people hold on to their pain, afraid of what might happen if they let it go. This is a case of the devil you know is better than the devil you don’t. But, most often, the devil you know is keeping you from the blessings you deserve!
Let go or be dragged.
