Lead Your Life
Are you leading your life or is life dictating your day for you?
Is the awareness that you absolutely can lead your life even in the conscious thoughts you allow daily?
Everyday you are making choices that create your life. The daily decisions and actions you take lead your life either consciously in the direction you want it to be led or unconsciously to the circumstances that surround you.
Did you know you were in charge? Are you ready for the responsibility?
Leading your life is an exciting, daring, and empowering adventure that has zero guarantees of outcome, but 100% freedom of choice in direction. Imagine that you have freedom to choose and direct its course, but with that comes absolute surrender and suspense to where it is taking you. Therefore your joy lies in choosing, directing, taking action and the journey that unfolds every day en route to where you want to go; it lies not in the arriving or the destination.
Our circumstances do not determine our life, our choices do! You always have a choice. Are you currently on autopilot in any area of your life accepting what is when you could exercise your freedom of choice? The first step to lead your life is in having awareness that you are in charge and can direct or redirect the course you have charted with one thought, one belief change, one action, and one step towards that which you want.
There are certain phrases we hear all the time which do not support the ‘Lead your Life’ potential that exists for all of us such as:
“I don’t have time.” (It should be, “I am choosing or prioritizing this instead of that.”)
“I have to.” ( Leading your life says, “I get to choose.” or “I am choosing to ______.” )
“You are so lucky, you can __________, I wish I could.” (“Good for you! I am going to do that too!”)
“If only I had ________, I could ______.” (“I am going to do ______, so I can be able to ____.”)
“I am not ______, so can’t do ________.” (“I am __________, so I will _________.”)
Lead Your Life with Empowering Leadership Thoughts
The first step with leading your life has to begin with the way you think. It starts with the thoughts you think, what you say to yourself, and what you speak to others. Are you speaking to yourself and others with the three P’s of possibility, potential, and positivity? Is it not ironic that we hear more people share and talk about their complaints than we do of their dreams? Imagine what could happen if you spoke more about your vision and made strong, bold statements of it happening and already being in existence. When you do this, you breathe life into who you want to become and what you want to create.
A Leader Exercises Choice & Decides
You are leading your life when you know and see all the choices before you and fear is not confining you to your current choice or circumstance. Swallow that to the depths of your souls and savor it for a solid, silent moment.
How many of us have at any time or currently are making a choice that is based out of fear and that includes fear of the unknown or what is next? A brilliant exercise to do when you are faced with a tough decision or are at a crossroads in your life, is to brainstorm all possible options; do this by including a variety of absolutely insanely, absurdly outrageous possibilities all the way to the other spectrum of conservative ideas. You are and can only be a leader of your life when you acknowledge you have choice and that you are choosing, even right now in this moment you have chosen. The question is, “What have you chosen & why?”
To lead your life you have to make decisions, sometimes tough ones, and you need to take ownership of what it is you have decided. This does not mean you have to justify or explain to anyone your decisions; the only person that needs to happily and peacefully own their decisions is you. “Are your current decisions bringing you happiness and peace?” If the answer is no, you can make a decision to exercise your choice and choose what will bring more happiness and peace for you.
Leading Your Life from the Front!
As a leader, which you are of your life, you are leading it from out in front of where you currently are. This means you are guiding it from a place of not where you are, but where you want to go and are going! You are leading at the helm of your dream and goal and so you cannot be stuck in where you are, but you must live in the energy of who you want to become and where you want to direct your life. Again this is a choice and a mindset to lead your life.
Being in front is not unlike the voyageurs that navigated our waterways for the first time; this means you will be in uncharted territories and it will feel uncertain and exhilarating at the same time. It may appear foggy and unclear at times and in other moments you will be filled with hope of new, beautiful beginnings. To lead your life from the front means you may be pulling it and yourself by planning, pursuing, and persevering for all that which you wish to create.
To Lead Your Life, You Will Need…
Space
You will need a space in your day, your week, your life where you can schedule time specifically for leading your life. The space can be a short window of time set at a regular interval or it can be a blocked hour or morning set at a weekly or monthly schedule. It can also be a beautiful space, open space, or decorative setting that inspires all that you wish to create in your lead your life space.
Silence
Without moments of stillness and silence, we cannot connect to our soul, inner purpose, truths, and intuition. Clarity and absolute knowings for ourselves come when we are not doing, but when we are being. When we become so accustomed to being busy, we miss out on the moments of silence that connects us to our very being. Leaders make these moments possible so they can breathe life both into the direction they desire and the dreams they dare to make a reality. Silence is strength. Silence brings vision. Silence and stillness connects to energy that enables you to lead.
Reflection
Both the space and silence you take as a leader will give you the opportunity to reflect. It is in reflection, you see what is, what you want, and what can be. Reflection ponders the presence and ignites the imagination for the future. It can be a moment of truth as you vividly embrace that which you see staring back at you and also a transformative turning point. With reflection we will be shown the intimate reality of where we are and the distance to the daring, dancing destiny we wish to create.
“Do you dare, will you dance?”
It’s your life to lead. Lead it and live it with choice, direction, and out in front!
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