Kindle Notes & Highlights
If we want to live authentic, purposeful, fulfilling, and happy lives, we need to learn how to live from our Inner Compass.
The results of trailblazing are self-discovery and a life that’s more beautiful and amazing than you could have imagined. It’s more beautiful because it has less of what you should be and more of what you want to be.
It’s hard to know what the best path for you is when you don’t have that Inner Compass to guide you. You may know what is limiting you, or understand why you got to this point in your life and be willing to take action, but if you don’t know what you want, you won’t know the right action to take. Rather than searching inside, you’ll look for someone who has a solution to your problem, and you’ll follow their step-by-step map. Their map never fully works, though, because no one else is going to have the perfect map for you. Using that process, you may jump from one guru to the next, hoping in
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You fear that you’ll lose something or someone you love, but what you don’t realize is that every time you take a step toward a path you don’t want but choose just to make other people happy, you take a step away from your true, authentic self. You’re already losing yourself.
Your Natural Instinct exists to help you. But the real truth is that it’s limiting you. Anytime you’re using your past as an excuse, you need to dig deeper.
What I’m asking you to do is to stop surrendering to your Natural Instinct and start surrendering to your Inner Compass instead. I want you to stop surrendering to what’s easy and start surrendering to the more fulfilling work. I want you to stop surrendering to the limitations in your head and start surrendering to the authentic part of you that wants to come out.
Living with Love means: The love you feel comes from within you, not as a result of pursuing it from others. You work on loving yourself and seeing your value. You speak to yourself with kindness and compassion. You don’t act out of obligation. You only do things that you can do out of love. You have boundaries that help you to feel love for people, no matter the circumstance. You can say no out of love for yourself.
Do-Be-Have: You think that if you do more, then you’ll be something and then have what you want. For example, if you keep the house clean, cook homemade meals every day, and get all the laundry done, then you’ll be a good mom, and then you’ll have a happy family. But that doesn’t work. If you think you have to do all of those things to be a good mom, you’ll be overwhelmed and stressed. Will you really have a happy family if you’re always overwhelmed and stressed?
