What If You Practiced What You Already Know To Do

What would your life look like this week if you started practicing, actually doing what you already know works? I've shared with you that one of my guidelines for this year is "Finish it!" And I must admit, it's working incredibly well. I was first introduced to the concept of creating guidelines for each year from Jinny Ditzler, the brilliant creator and author of Your Best Year Yet, a program I've worked with for nearly a decade.

Her "blinding flash of the obvious" message is this: If we really follow our own inner guidance rather than spending time, energy and lots of money chasing other people's 'how to's' for success, then our lives begin to work. Think about it: how many times have you gone to a seminar or read a self-help book that preaches the author or speaker's guidelines for success. And try as you might they never seem to work quite the same for you, or you leave the seminar promising to change and nothing happens.

Now don't get me wrong, I'm thrilled when people tell me that something I've said or written made a difference in their life. But the reason it's made a difference (if I'm being completely honest) is NOT because it's never been said or written before. It's most likely because they've known those guidelines at a deep down level and finally started practicing them.

The best any writer or speaker can do is help you plumb the depths of your own wisdom. And so this week I ask you: What would your life look like if you started practicing and doing what you already know works?

• Would you start acting now rather than putting off until tomorrow?
• Would you start taking care of yourself physically, mentally, spiritually rather than waiting until you have taken care of everyone else?
• Would you take that vacation you've promised yourself, "when you get the time" or "when the economy improves"?
• Would you pick up the phone and call that friend or relative you know would be thrilled to hear from you?
• Would you let go of that old grievance or grudge because you know it's killing you?
• Would you finally pursue your passion, starting now rather than waiting until the kids are out of college?
• Would you start believing in yourself rather than chasing your worth from the world?
• Would you begin saying what you really feel rather than saying what you think everyone wants you to say?
• Would you find a way to follow your bliss regardless of whether others think it's "practical"?

Quote of the Week:

"At the end of life, our questions are very simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?"
~Jack Kornfield, American Buddhist Monk, Author and Teacher

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