8 Keys to Walking Your Path
Maybe at times you’ve wished life came with an owner’s manual that would show you exactly how all the parts work together to serve a purpose.
In my own search for understanding about the meaning of my life, I experienced some things that most people never shared with me about personal awakening, I offer them to you here.
1. The only way to find yourself is to completely lose your way.
From where you came, everything made sense, to where you are going nothing will be clear… This is the way. You might even feel like you are losing your mind when you begin to come alive in your life. You discover that how you have been living, just isn't going to make it any longer. You might end up questioning the things you worked so hard for, and you might realize that some of the most precious things in life came about only through "accident", coincidence, or synchronicity....
2. When you are lost, the things that worked for your once, will stop working for you.
Ever heard the expression, "Jump and the net will appear"? The reality of the awakening story goes a bit more like this: As you take the leap of faith and risk everything, you may trip, fall, stumble, doubt yourself, question everything you thought you knew, and feel completely alone. Once you break through every safety net, you may feel like your are falling into deepest darkness of the abyss. You will enter into the complete unknown. This is on purpose.
3. You will have to find a new way. Your way.
You will find your way, the only way that is meant for only you. You will try the ways of others, but they won't work for you. Your way is uniquely designed for you and only you can find this way.
4. Most people are afraid.
Most people have never done the great thing in their life that you are attempting to do, and so they're scared of what it means if you accomplish what you’ve set out to do, because that means they might still have to do the thing that they were meant to do and that is too scary.
Be careful of others who give quick fix advice or who try to sell you a strategy or program for happiness. There is no quick fix and it is difficult to find your own unique way, but there is nothing more rewarding that you can spend your time doing in this lifetime. It's the hardest, most powerful, and most gratifying work you will ever do.
5. Do not expect perfection. To aim for perfection is to block the way of transformation.
The expectation of perfection, of total security, of knowing all things before they happen, and how your life will unfold, if achieved, would create a state of stagnancy beyond which there is would be NO future growth, and no such state exists.
6. True wealth, is an absolute knowing that everything you need is within you.
How we become truly wealthy, is different for each and everyone one of us, and how we define our own personal wealth is incredibly important to spend time defining, so that we may make sure we are in alignment with our own personal truth while making money so that we have the capacity to sustain it while enjoying ourselves. This is freedom.
7. The ability to reframe failure and not take yourself so seriously, at times, will be exactly what propels you toward living a more extraordinary life.
It will be what will set you apart from the rest who are too afraid to try and fail, and therefore will never truly know or understand who they are and what makes them happy.
8. Arriving at your destination is not the point.
You will come to learn that fulfillment, life purpose, and happiness is in WHO YOU BECOME as a result of following your inner guidance. The process of making welcome in your life your true destiny and expressing your unique soul essence will be the way you fulfill that which you and only you were meant to fulfill in the first place.
