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Are You Living Your Values?
Your values are those things you believe in your heart of hearts are the most important way for you to live and work. They guide your thoughts, actions and decisions, and ultimately are a way to measure whether life is turning out the way you want it to.
When you are in alignment with your values, you feel fulfilled, content and satisfied. When you’re not, you feel frustrated, overwhelmed, bored and easily distracted. That’s why it’s so important to be able to identify and work with your values on a regular basis.
Free to be you… and me.
Habits are wonderful ways to simplify elements of our lives, but when we live our lives on autopilot, simply going through the motions, we lose our sense of direction - our sense of self.
We can build a life of design through intentionality with the guidance of our true self. But, to do this, we first have to be in relationship with our true self. And, unfortunately, most of us are not.
We look to others for guidance on the direction of our lives, gather opinions from voices outside ourselves and, in short, keep ourselves in a position to think everyone else has it figured out while we’re still struggling.
The reality is, all of the answers you need are within you. You are your own guiding star. It’s just covered up by decades of noise from outside yourself, so it can be really hard to hear or understand.
This week, I explore ways to reconnect with the deepest parts of yourself so you can have an opportunity to live life on your terms.
The Gift of Receiving
“It’s nobler to give than to receive.” Sound familiar? Most of us grew up hearing (and internalizing) this adage to the point we have quelled our ability to receive on a regular basis.
Whether it’s from fear of being selfish, a burden on others or possibly just the thought of others judging us and our capabilities, many of us haven’t practiced the art of gracefully receiving from others.
And yet, when we do, we open up opportunities for more meaningful relationships, better physical and mental health, and a deeper sense of self-worth. In this week’s blog, I dive into the ways we’re preventing ourselves from being able to comfortably receive, as well as how to take those baby steps towards accepting more regularly.
There’s Nothing Wrong With You
Psst… I have a question for you. How many times has something not gone to plan and your immediate reaction is “what is wrong with me?”
As women, demonizing ourselves is our #1 pastime and we don’t even get to enjoy it. Instead, we feel alone and swear everyone else has it together in ways we don’t.
Here are some reasons why we do this and strategies to start shifting from automatically believing you’re wrong to opening yourself up to the possibility of being right, just the way you are.
What’s in a name?
Two years ago, I was encouraged by my mom to put some of the work I had been creating, paintings and photography, into a local pop-up gallery. Sure. I could do that. My thought was something like this: “I mean, I’m not an ARTIST, but I can send in an application for my art. I’m not going to try to fool anyone into thinking I’m an ARTIST, right?”