Venturing into the Uncomfortable Unknown: Three Steps to Encourage You to Take on a Big Life Change

March 1, 2017

I recently got an email from a reader that is struggling with making a big life change. She wants to make a career shift but is struggling with motivation since she is comfortable where she is. She doesn’t NEED the change but she WANTS it.

I have been in this exact same position many times and I know so many people that have been in it as well. I feel like it is a right of passage, of sorts, on the career path. We find a job, we enjoy it, we get bored, we want a change but we don’t know how to start.

The truth is, it is scary to take on a big life change — especially one that involves our livelihood and finances. For some reason it feels like too great of a risk to go after our hopes and dreams when money is involved. Seeking pleasure in career is a hard sell when you are making enough money to be comfortable.

In fact, being comfortable but not fulfilled is one of the most dangerous and daunting positions we can be in.

Level up in life by unlocking unhealthy repetitive patterns

April 6, 2016

I believe each of us have certain life lessons that we are meant to learn in our lifetime and we are presented with similar situations over and over again until we learn it. Or maybe, for the really difficult lessons — the ones that are embedded deep within our being and tied up in our behaviors— we have to face the same challenge over and over again in order to finally wake up to it.

Whatever the reason is or how it shows up, it is hard to deny that the path to self is paved in patterns. Some of these patterns are healthy and some are unhealthy. It is the unhealthy patterns that throw us off the path and take us further away from self. And the healthy patterns help set us back on our path. Unhealthy patterns are usually marked with turmoil and pain. The healthy patterns bring a sense of peace and calm.