Self-Empowerment, Planning, and Goals
Think about those words for a second. How do they make you feel? Are you anxious, nervous, excited, or neutral?
Any of these feelings and all others are completely valid when it comes to this topic. The key is recognizing these feelings and learning how to work with them.
Negative feelings can get a bad reputation when it comes to these things. One may feel as if they aren’t ready to progress to the next step in their development, or they just end up discouraged for some reason or another.
Positive feelings may lead you down an opposite path of expectation and bewilderment. OR they could lead you down a similar path because of past experiences.
This is the next key, understanding. Understanding your now recognized emotions and what comes with them. This is paramount because of what happens after.
When it comes to your goals and being empowered to accomplish those goals, many will think that it’s something that’s supposed to be an overnight process.
Just push through and make it work.
While others may see it as some long and arduous process that needs to happen step by step. This is all dependent on how you’ve grown up to see yourself and do things over the span of your life.
No use in changing what works right? Well, not so much so.
When we come to a blockage with ourselves in this area of our lives, we automatically go to our invisible playbook to pull out a special teams play that will just randomly fix it.
There’s an error in the play if it doesn’t work, right? This too may lead one down a harder path than what is necessary. Sometimes, the easiest thing to do is what is coincidentally what we have never really tried to do with these types of things.
I’ll take a moment to help you illustrate this.
I’ve been having issues at home with managing my time, stress, and activities. OK, I recognize this and I understand the fatigue and upset that comes with the need to change. Now I go to my playbook and I (realizing that I’ve tried these plays before in weeks past) freak out.
Now I’m flustered, trying to make one part come together, and juggling so many other things that I end up back to where I started from.
THIS is the harder way I mentioned earlier because THIS is how many end up stuck in a cycle that won’t seem to end. So what does one do when faced with such odds?
The answer is simple. Try something new.
Recently, I have gone through the trouble of learning a few ways of clearing myself and the area around me of negative, limiting energies. That was step one for me.
Step two was continuing to integrate these new techniques into a workable plan for my recovery and eventual improvement.
See where I’m going with this already?
When we’re put in a place where we want to improve, sometimes the easiest thing to do is to try something ‘scary’ and new. “Well, what if we have no sources or places to look for these ways to clear and gain more perspective?”
That’s where other perspectives come into play. That’s where your friends, family, or even the internet all come into play. If you want to improve your perspective and have no new avenues local to you, then branch out and find some.
“My problem isn’t with the improvement so much as it is getting started.”
Getting inspired to set and accomplish your goals can be very hard at some points and intervals because everyone is wired differently as I mentioned earlier.
This can be even more difficult if you don’t believe that you have the power within yourself to get started or find a way to light your inner fire. I could say the usual like meditation, yoga, nature, or even the more uncommon like sleep and R&R.
Instead, I’m going to assume that you’re either already working on making those things a part of your routine, or have already tried doing these things and don’t have a proper avenue to function well by integrating them into your every-day life.
Here’s the thing though. If you constantly say that you have no way no matter what new things are being brought to you, then you are defeating yourself to a point where nobody can help you.
Furthermore, by telling yourself you can’t and reaffirming these things within yourself, you are creating more blockages to your creativity than any medium can help push out. Again, the key is within yourself.
Try this
Make a list of your intentions, what you want to be inspired to do, and what is blocking you. Put these in three separate categories. Then, take a look at your work (don’t be embarrassed, just look).
Go down the list of your intentions and what goals you want to accomplish. Then connect any intentions you see with these goals.
Do the very same thing with your intentions and blocks, then what inspires or blocks you from those goals.
Afterward, circle anything that wasn’t connected to anything else. Now make a separate list of the circled things in their own respective categories. Next comes the fun part.
Those unblocked intentions or desired goals are all things that can be turned into workable goals and executed right away. Simply allow for yourself to have them.
If they are things you can comfortably be without, let them go if they aren’t barring you.
Those things that have blocks, go through each block and really investigate why those blocks may exist, what the root cause is, and if you are capable of letting them go now.
If not, then what needs to happen in order for you to let them go?
Be especially vigilant of multiple things that all connect to the same block.
What do your goals look like now compared to your blocks? If they seem more manageable, then you can pat yourself on the back and start the real work of making this idea for a plan stick. If not, well, I’m here to help you in any way I can.
Just set up a consultation with me, and we can discuss why and develop a plan.
If you have any questions or comments, or if you just want to discuss your experience of the exercise, feel free to leave a comment below.
Thanks for being here.
Love and Light
