What inspires you?
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
[ Martin Luther King Jr ]
All the self help topics I talk about come down to one thing: Know yourself.
All of us are so beautifully different, so incredibly diverse, that there is no one size fits all solution to the challenges we face. What works for one person won't click for another.
The most important goal of this journey is to learn yourself. Learn what works for you and what doesn't through experimentation coupled with patience and honest feedback. Try new things, both tools and experiences.
Walk yourself through the process of modifying your self talk to lift you up instead of bring you down. Allow yourself to dream bigger and watch as your thought patterns reflect both the resilience and resistance to expansion that you hold inside. Walk yourself through that expansion as well and understand that you are growing under your own direction, under your own volition and power.
You may notice one very important detail...
The more you move into passionate action in pursuit of a worthwhile goal, the more harmful habits and patterns of self sabotage naturally drop away.
If you light yourself on fire by pulling the trigger on a goal or dream, your actions will naturally align with that goal. In other words, it's far more effective to lead yourself forward with inspiration than it is to push what you don't want out of your experience. In nutrition coaching, I used 'eat more colourful fruits and vegetables' to help my clients crowd out less nutritious foods. As you focus on what you are inspired to bring into your experience, the things that hold you back have less of a place.
Now, that means active pursuit of a flying career, which has brought me head-to-head with my most giant internal obstacles. I wouldn’t have it any other way; in fact, that fear and resistance is one reason I chose this path to begin with.
If you find yourself lost in patterns that don't serve you, don't focus on the pattern, focus on its replacement.
More important than anything else, add a goal that inspires you to drive yourself out of bed with enthusiasm every day and work towards. Build your life. This is your creation. Own that responsibility.
