TAKING ACTION TOWARDS CHANGE.
Important questions to ask yourself as you move into the new era of you.
Acknowledging you need a change is step one to move into your new life. It may sound simple, but it is extremely hard to grow and evolve without fully acknowledging that a change needs to happen.
After acknowledgement comes questions: how, what, when, where, and who? Our minds run wild with all the possibilities and ways to achieve change. Sometimes, our past trauma sneaks in and attempts to dismember all of the hope we are feeling in the present. To truly make a change, you must be brutally honest with yourself. By making room for your honest and true thoughts, feelings, and experiences the road to transformational change will become more focused.
Through life your body experiences pain, heartache, disappointment, sorrow, failure, and many more lows, leaving you with trauma. As your mind recalls traumatic memories, your body experiences these moments as if in real time. To fully embrace change, you must let go. The key to letting go is facing the truth of your inner trauma and putting it to rest.
A good first step is questioning yourself. When answering these questions, you do not have to be anyone other than you, nor concerned with the need to impress anyone. Choose a space to answer these questions that is private and honest for you. Take time to answer and reflect. Sometimes the pathway to your desires is right in front of you, it just takes committing to stand honestly in front of yourself to see it.
Do I want to change?
Am I comfortable in the place I am in?
What is standing between me and changing?
What is stopping me from becoming what I desire?
Who is in my way?
What can I do to move past who is in my way?
What is my main pain point?
What do I need to let go of to move forward?
How will I let go of this?
Am I willing to create new patterns in my life?
Is my life able to be changed?
Am I in control of my choices?
If I could do one thing right now and knew I could not fail, what would it be?
Now let's be logical. Sometimes we want to change, but the reality of life’s responsibilities do not allow us to. Many times I have heard people say, “I’d love to leave my toxic work environment, but I can’t.” Or, “I really wish I could carve out more time in my day, but it is truly impossible, as I am already stretched so thin.”
Life is messy and sometimes the needs of a partner, children, or work are not cohesively allowing you to migrate into this new form you are desperately trying to become.
First and foremost you are not alone. Life is all-consuming sometimes and it is not your fault that the routine and responsibilities take away from your dreams. What I can tell you is, if you desire a change it is not going to be easy, but it will be the most rewarding choice of your life.
Look deeply into your day:
What are things that could be altered in the routine you currently have for yourself?
Is it possible to take on something you’d like to do while doing something you have to do?
e.g.: you have to commute to work, but could you possibly listen to a podcast twice a week on your commute? Not just any podcast, but a podcast about the business you want to create or the hobby you are trying to get into.
Your body becomes extremely comfortable in the routine of your life. Your mind will be the determining factor between habitual behaviors and change. Choosing to divert from an already formed routine and retackle the way your life is structured is a gigantic step towards rebuilding your life in a new direction.
I find it important to note, if you walk through the world looking for evidence that you don’t belong, you will always find it. You do not have to explain your worth, belonging, or business with anyone. Your worth and belonging are non-negotiable to the outside world. Be brave for yourself, be brave enough to make a change, you deserve that from you.
Sending abundance & joy,
Amanda
