honest with your Self
When you are honest with your Self, you will begin to better understand what is keeping you from living your authentic life.
We are quick to make excuses for why we don’t do things we really want to—things that either allow us to move closer to our authentic life or maintain our alignment of spirit, mind, body, and money.
For example, I often blame needing adequate sleep for not getting up at 5:00 in the morning to get in a workout, meditation, breathwork, and journaling EVERY DAY. I know how important all of these activities are to my alignment of spirit, mind, and body, yet I don’t do them all every day because I don’t carve out dedicated time to ensure they are always done.
Instead, I use the excuse of our busy evenings with practices, late dinners, and our boys' bedtimes. This leads to never getting ready for bed before 11:00, making getting up at 5:00 harder to do if I want to sleep enough.
It’s not that our evenings aren’t busy and don’t make an earlier bedtime harder to accomplish. But truthfully, if I’m being honest with my Self it’s an excuse.
Thankfully, I’m able to do enough to maintain my alignment, and I haven’t had to make a change, but I’m thinking I need to stop using the excuse of our evening schedules and start getting up early to proactively stay ahead of falling out of alignment.
The only way I will make this change is to be honest with myself about why I’m not getting up early and stop using the excuses I’ve hidden behind.
This is just one example of how we use excuses to avoid having to be honest with our Selves and hold our Selves accountable for the role we play in the things we don’t like in our lives.
Being honest with your Self makes navigating your Pursuit of your authentic life easier because you can quickly discover what you need to do to get realigned or see the changes you want in your life.
Like everything…change starts with YOU and it starts by being honest with your Self.
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See you tomorrow and keep pursuing,
JC
🦅 Some 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, and body to ensure you evolve with your authentic life, as the authentic life is not a destination, it’s an evolution.
💸 AlignedLife+ AlignedLife+ (and the one-time engagement AlignedLife) takes LifeDesign+ to the next level by aligning your finances with your authentic life at RLS Wealth. For individuals looking for a financial advisor to help design and manage their financial plan while maintaining the alignment of spirit, mind, body, and money, AlignedLife+ was created specifically for you.
📈 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.
