 FREE Email Course It’s 2010. You have a world of options at your fingertips. If you’re a person who wants to live the life you were truly meant to live, then how do you make aligned choices that lead you to where you want to go? Intuitively, you already know the answer. It is by cultivating an inner awareness and an abiding commitment to what’s most unique and authentic inside of you. When you align your choices and actions towards your authentic core, you step into the flow of life. Ultimately, you experience greater freedom, meaning, and satisfaction across every area of your life. Yet if you’ve even just dabbled in personal development, you’ll admit that living up to your authentic nature can be a real pain in the ass. It’s fraught with problems. It can even be fraught with terror. Dollars to donuts, what you want for you will often appear to run countercurrent to what society tells you to be, what your job demands you to be, and even what your spouse, family, friends, and peers “want” you to be. So what do you do? Three things. First, recognize that you can’t live two lives at the same time. There comes a time when the internal and external cost of compromising/ pretending/ resenting the life everyone else tells you to be living is no longer worth it. The cost of a loss of joy, under-performing financial affairs, the loss of significance and meaning, the loss of slowly, subtly wasting your life away like sugar dissolves in water. The first step is to make a commitment to discover and align with your authentic core. The purpose of the 7 Days to Align Your Life for Success course is to provide you with clarity on your authentic core. Understanding your authentic core is the first step in making the choice to align with it. Second, drop the frickin “Arrival Myth” you’re now living in. The Arrival Myth is a notion that if you just suck it up long enough, keep your mouth shut, work your ass off, hit it big and make it, then you can do good in the world/ live your dreams/ do what you’ve always wanted to do. Sorry to burst your bubble, but this Myth has got to go. Here are just a few reasons: You will never be successful doing what you’re doing now if you’re only doing it in order to do what you’re really called to do later. It’s a myth. It doesn’t work. The Arrival represents some mythical payday in the future with all of the trappings of success: the f-you money, the status, the prestige, the power, the boat, the car, the McMansion, the enlightenment, the new relationship, the trips, the better body…. all the things that you’re imagining as a result of some future payday. The investment banker who-hates-his-job-and-secretly-wants-to-be-a-writer-but-can’t-quit-yet-because-he-has-a-mortgage-cars-obligations-kids-in-private-school … will never get his imagined payday. One reason you can’t misalign your life to success is that you’re swimming against the current of life. Life is calling you to a unique and authentic expression. When you fight the flood, it costs you energy. And the less energy you can bring to your tasks, the less effective you are. It’s true that you can suck it up, stuff it inside, and fight your way to “the top.” But that method comes with a great cost in joy, presence, and peace of mind. It’s a hollow victory. And even then, the odds aren’t in your favor. Life tends to reward those who align with it. When you are misaligned, you lose power, creativity and stamina, and so you’re not as effective. Your internal and external rewards will be correspondingly lower. So rather than working towards a distant payday when you’ll finally “arrive,” the solution is to align with your authentic core now and bring those qualities into your work and life RIGHT WHERE YOU ARE. I’ll explain more about this in the 7 Days to Align Your Life for Success course. And even if you are fortunate enough to beat the odds and hit your imagined payday, it’s likely that you still won’t make the leap to do what you truly want to do. Hey, if you ever want to meet a really depressed person, talk to the entrepreneur who just sold her company for $500 million after working on it for 20 years. While the world is celebrating her achievement, she’s irritable and depressed, even as she flaunts a public smile. Why? Because her entire life and persona were entwined with growing the business – now she has everything and nothing at once. Another reason you won’t make the leap from what you were doing before the big payday to what you always wanted to do is that any big payday is never really enough. There are always more demands and needs for more money, status and power. So after a brief hiatus where you can sail your boat/drive your motorcycle/play golf/whatever, you’ll likely continue on “just a little longer” doing what you’ve always done and secretly dreaming to do something else. Except now you’re no longer quite sure what it is. Each day you spend doing something other than expressing your true calling, it becomes that much harder to get back on the authentic path. You lose sight of what’s most important. Your persona begins to mask your true essence. Pretty soon, you can’t imagine your life without the trappings of the external success you’ve spent the past many years accumulating. Your house becomes your prison. To sum it all up, you can’t reach your goals by choosing a path today that is misaligned with your authentic core in a vain attempt to “arrive” and pursue your true dreams later. It doesn’t work. Quit deluding yourself that it can. Third, act from right where you are. In my own life, as well as in my coaching practice, I’ve realized something crucial. You don’t have to do something different in the external world in order to become more aligned with your authentic core. The investment banker doesn’t have to quit being an investment banker in order to capture the essence and expression of his art. When he captures this essence, and makes the courageous choice to live it more fully all the time, at-work-home-and-all-the time, he actually gets to experience more joy, meaning and fulfillment within his current environment. The same is true for your relationships, friends, and your integration within society. You don’t have to do anything different. But you do have to make a commitment to be different. The fact is that you always have an opportunity to apply your authentic self in every circumstance, in each relationship, wherever you are, all the time. And when you make this choice, you align with the power and flow of life itself. Your life takes on new depths and levels of joy, meaning and satisfaction that you couldn’t have even conceived of … until you drank the wine. What is your authentic core? Your authentic core consists of these elements:
 Each element of your authentic core builds on the other. Use your authentic core to guide your choices and actions towards your desires. When you complete the 7 Days to Align Your Life for Success email course, you’ll have a deeper understanding of your own authentic core. When you choose to align your life more closely to this core, you’ll have the wisdom and power to attain your desires. So quit fighting. Start flowing. Sign up for the free 7 Days to Align Your Life for Success course now. |
