Free Yourself from Time Restraints
I want to offer one of the biggest paradigm shifts that these times are attempting to free us from: Time restraints.
One of my biggest obstacles that I continually faced when desiring different experiences in my life was that I did not “have the time” to devote to what I really wanted to do. That could have been taking care of myself or doing the fun things I wanted to do to “relax and enjoy life” to studying something that interested me, exploring the edges of my creativity, day dreaming about my ideal career, you name it. I always put those items on my list AFTER I completed life’s responsibilities of work demands, client demands, family demands, and you know that is an endless list. And we all know how much time is left after all of that is completed. Negative time. It never fails.
Friends, I say this with 100% empathy from a person that gave those same excuses for years. Not having the time is
a choice to subvert your power as creator
to choice to operate from limitation based paradigms created from faulty truths and past choices
a choice not to allow the creative ways in to yield exactly what you want.
At any point we can take back the wheel of creator and allow innovation into those stuck places but it requires you to radically shift the operating system you are running your life on.
So, how do you make the radical shift that I finally made and free yourself?
You prioritize the same time we all have differently. You flip it 180 degrees. This requires two radical leaps:
Replacing the filter you use for what you allow in and out of your day
Prioritizing new behaviors
Leap 1:
I love Marie Kondo’s filter and I think she nailed it: Filter based on joy-how each aspect of your life makes you feel. Ask each item/activity in your life-
Does this light you up?
Is this activity/person going to help me get to my dreams?
Is this a level 10 or a level 5?
Notice I didn’t say what will make you the most money, what is the most reasonable path to your dreams? What is the most safe and secure path? Those are fear driven questions and place you in avoidance rather than attraction energy.
What you will find is that a majority of what we fill our lives with will never get us where we want to be and it is simply taking up energetic space and reflecting back to us the reality of what is and not what could be. I have found that about 80% of what was in my life was “filler” and what I was used to doing not what my creator self would choose.
Energy is everything and if the majority of the energy of our day is subpar, a sub par life will ensue. Like always attracts like. Once you implement the new filter, your experiences and results change dramatically. When I replaced my filter after so many years my life took a dramatic turn from my work to my relationships and to my sense of peace and confidence in life.
“Keep only those things that speak to your heart. Then take the plunge and discard all the rest. By doing this, you can reset your life and embark on a new lifestyle.” ~marie kondo
Leap 2: Prioritize radically different. First things first.
You must re-order the priority of what we are feeding energetically to match the experiences you want to create. So, if I want a more sustainable work life, then I must put first what allows me to feel that reality NOW not once it is here. What you feed grows. So I re-oder my daily routine that say to my life “This is what I want more of and this is what I am creating”.
My favorite way to express this is “Act as if..” If I was a successful entrepreneur with a balanced personal life what would I be doing primarily and I do that despite “logic” and my patterns of habit that says that I must keep doing the same things but do it more and harder. So, I do the fun things first in my day I take that class I have wanted to take and I let something else be left undone. When I have put my joy first it has been amazing what came ushering in with so much less effort and synchronicity.
We are kept from our goal not by obstacles but by a clear path to a lesser goal. – Robert Brault.”
Now, I feel you. This is highly uncomfortable and counterculture. You are going to say to me, but I have to support myself, I have responsibilities that I cannot say no to, or fill in the blank. I know I know. I have said them all too. This is why it is a leap. So, start small if you must.
Filter out 1 energetic drain and prioritize first 1 emotionally energizing experience in your “act as if” for 30 days.
You will notice the ripple effect immediately. Even changing simple things like driving new ways to work and brushing your teeth with a different hand makes shifts in your brain.
I feel so passionately about helping you experience these shifts that I am exclusively creating playshops, group coaching and other ways to integrate these new ways into your life. I have a virtual workshop that can help give you the foundation for creating the. Look here.
There is a better way friends right on the other side of the familiar landscape of what you have grown so used to tolerating....
Take a different path-unleash your inner genius with me. It is time and you have more than enough time to be the creator you have always been.
If we do not create and control our environment, our environment creates and controls us.” – Dr. Marshall Goldsmith