I’ve had a few big successes in my life these past few weeks. I’ve successfully demolished a few addictions that I care not to reveal at this point. But let me tell you, these addictions really took a toll on my life and the people I cared about most. I made other people responsible for who I was, made them responsible for what I needed in terms of money, and basically lied to many of them to get my way. A very selfish act on my part. It drained all my energy, I hated being that way. I hated my life because of what I used to do and be. But slowly I reached a point where I did a complete 180 and changed my life around. I realized that there is no quick-fix, and if there is; it never lasts. I found myself leaning into my life the way I wanted it to be.
I learned this “lean into life” strategy from Jack Canfield, co-author of Chicken Soup for the Soul series. Leaning into life is a cool way of saying, to do things little by little with patience and to the best of your abilities. I decided to slowly pull away from destructive habits, I erased all the things that were not congruent to the way I wanted my life to be. And I slowly started to put myself in positions where I wanted my life to go. For example, I found this amazing website called Thank God I…. Check it out when you get a chance. But to make a long story short, they are looking for authors that want to be published. I had applied to be a part of it with the thought of, “I’ll just lean into this and see what happens.” I had detached myself from the outcome of wanting to be a published author, realizing that it’ll happen some day, one day, some how. So I wasn’t worried about it. Last night, I checked the voice-mail and to my surprise they called me back wanting to find out more information about ‘my story’. Now I haven’t called them back yet as it was very late at night when I got the message. If they decide to use me, great! But even just for the fact that they took the time to review my application and call me shows how awesome this ‘lean into life’ strategy works. I’m forever grateful for even the chance to have been called back. I’ll keep you folks updated on what happens. All this for a young 22 year old getting into the life coaching industry. I’m proud of who I am and proud of the steps I’m taking and have taken.
So remember folks, Lean Into Life! You never know what great things will happen if you just try to experience new things. The quality of your life is in direct proportion of the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably deal with. Seek out that uncertainty and your passion will be found.
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