Today I am reminded I don't change well.
I'm working on it. Changing is part of leadership and part of growing into who I want to be. But change is also scary- and since I'm being ME and decided I was going to start a business and do it in double-time- I've become aware of patterns in my thinking I didn't realize were there. It was just kind of...the way things were.
Changing that is hard. Especially since I wasn't really aware of them until literally 20 minutes ago. I like to think I am self aware...and mostly I am. Usually. Until I start to change. Then it kind of hits me all at once; I'm not as self-aware as I think I am.
This is how I roll.
Nothing good can come without some change- even if it is just a belief you can have what you want. But the belief won't manifest until you take action.
That sounds simple, and it is. The trick is which action should you take? This is where my change is hard, because I sit and overthink everything, and can't decide which action to take. And choosing the action to take is the part I desperately need to conquer. Analysis Paralysis is A Thing in the Fulkes House today.
So I opened an email from one of the business mentors I follow, and lo and behold, she was writing on exactly that. Don't be scared- don't get caught up in thinking every little option through. Stop and take INSPIRED action. It's a practice, not an analysis.
Inspired action isn't just acting for the sake of acting. It's acting in the way that brings you to your goals and resonates with your soul. It's taking a moment to be quiet and listen and move when the answer presents itself. The answers are always found in the stillness. As we can read in I Kings 19:11-13, God is not in the wind, nor the earthquake, nor the fire. God is in the still, small voice that asks us what we are doing here.
That I can do. That is a practice I can cultivate, and follow, and grow with.
Inspired action waits for me there, in the silence. That is the ultimate self-awareness.
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