What’s Your Next Right Step?

I’ve had several clients over the past month who described themselves as “stuck.”
They each could see the big picture of where they wanted to end up. For one it was a new job. For another, it was a new location. However, both of these clients were stuck in inaction.

Taking action is perhaps the most difficult part of creating the life you want. The Buddha said, "There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth: not going all the way, and not starting." You may need to get a better job. You may feel guided to begin a new business. Your intuition may tell you it’s time for a move to a new location with better opportunities. If you’re like most people, you’ll experience a great deal of uncertainty and fear in this part of the process because it means leaving behind what is known and safe. What you have may not be what you want, but it is something that you know. It’s all too easy to cling to that. However, the Universe will usually have other plans.

Nevertheless, in order to create more of what you want, you will have to take a leap into the unknown. Such a transition often evokes our deepest fears, our oldest wounds. And so this is a time to be gentle with yourself, to treat yourself with loving-kindness. To talk to yourself as you would to your best friend if he or she were going through this change. Speak to yourself gently and trust your own pace and rhythm. Listen to your guidance and take action based on its wisdom. If you are not sure what your guidance is saying, keep asking and take small, slow steps. Ask your inner wisdom, “What’s my next right step?” Be patient. Change often takes time.