seek your answers within
I find my Self coming back to an idea that I don’t remember when I was first told it or first read it and believed it; the idea, which has become a truth for me, is that all of the answers you seek around your authentic life—your purpose, your gifts and talents, where you happiness lies, etc—all lies within you.
We’ve been taught to seek these answers in the outside world, which leads us to expect to find these important answers in money, titles, material possessions, opinions of others, and more empty ways.
Eventually, most of us come to realize that the outside world provides very few of the answers we seek—it can give us feedback and confirmations from the Universe to help us as we find our answers within, but we’ll never find the answers that will lead to living an authentic life outside.
I know you cannot be forced to understand this, as it’s something you have to experience and understand for your Self.
My hope is that these Notes, the quotes I share like the ones below, the LifeDesign+ podcast, and my other creative endeavors might help you realize this sooner than you would on your own and begin to look within. And if I’m lucky, maybe I’ll get to help you discover those answers as a guide with LifeDesign+ or AlignedLife+.
If you haven’t discovered that the answers you seek to find and live your authentic life are waiting for you to discover within, here are a few quotes that have been around for a very long time–this is not new information–that might stick with you
“All the wonders you seek are within yourself.”
– Thomas Browne
“Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
– Carl Jung
“Your real self may be hiding somewhere, look for it within, when you find yourself, you can freely be what you want to be.”
– Michael Bassey Johnson
“Remember, all the answers you need are inside of you; you only have to become quiet enough to hear them.”
- Debbie Ford
“The inspiration you seek is already within you.”
- Rumi
See you tomorrow and keep pursuing,
JC
🦅 A few ways I might be able to help you live your authentic life:
🤝 One on Ones Let's hop on Zoom to do a guided meditation, a creative brainstorming session, or an overcoming an obstacle session.
📝 LifeDesign+ LifeDesign+ is rooted in the Kinder Institute of Life Planning’s EVOKE process, which is a five-step process to help discover what your authentic life looks like and begin to design a plan to bring that life to reality. It continues to incorporate the alignment of your spirit, mind, body, and money to ensure you evolve with your authentic life, as the authentic life is not a destination, it’s an evolution.
📈 LifeDesign+ for financial advisors LifeDesign+ for financial advisors mirrors the LifeDesign+ relationship, including the focus on the alignment of spirit, mind, and body, with an important distinction—once the plan for your authentic life has been designed, we shift our focus to integrating your new plan with your practice.
🤝 Outsourced life planning As your outsourced life planner, you bring me in to take your client through the Kinder Institute of Life Planning’s EVOKE process to help them better understand who they are, what they want their life to look like, and create a vision of this life for you to execute on the financial plan. Since you are their financial advisor, you will be a part of each of the meetings, so you understand the “why” behind your client’s new plan.
