Hello and welcome back to Second Chance to Live my friend. I am happy to have you around my table. Several years ago I wrote an article, Painting your Portrait {aka}This is Not a Dress Rehearsal. In that article I spoke about how life happens and how we respond to what happens to us.
How we respond to what happens in our lives determines whether we move forward with our lives or whether we stay stuck.
If I look at what happened and make the decision to learn from what happened I make an empowering choice. I make the choice to learn and grow from what happened in my life. By making that choice I move from feeling helpless to experiencing empowerment.
I move from the belief system that leads me to believe I am a victim to realizing that I can live my life as an empowered individual.
Recently, I wrote an article, Are you Living Your Truth?. In that article I spoke to the need to understand the “TRUTH” that we are living. I spoke to that need because without being clear, I may unknowingly be living a “LIE”. In that article I listed several questions that helped me. I will list those questions below. In the event that questioning whether you are living your truth, answer them and you will gain clarity too.
For many years, I found myself attempting to live in the TRUTH of what other people expected of me. Although other people may have had good intentions, their intentions did not work out well for me. In my experience, I had to reach a point in time when I had enough pain. Enough pain that helped me to realize that to continue in that truth would result in my becoming bankrupt. Bankrupt in my body, mind and spirit.
I am grateful for the pain that I experienced in my life. For that pain was the motivator that helped me to seek out my truth. The truth that would lead me to answer the question, “Whose Life am I Living? The truth that would break me free from a life of quiet desperation. The truth that helped me to break free from the cocoon like a butterfly. The truth that helped me to realize that I had other choices. The truth that helped me to realize that my life was and is of tremendous value. The truth that helped me to move in the direction of my dreams, by creating hope in my life. The truth that helped me to accept other people’s truth and live in my own truth. The truth that helped me to follow my dreams and sing the song that is in me.
“Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.” Henry David Thoreau
Questions that helped me to answer the question, “Whose Life am I Living”.
- Am I waiting for some one to define my truth?
- Am I waiting for some one to tell me what to do?
- Have I been living some one else’s truth?
- Is that truth working for me?
- Is that truth leaving me frustrated with my life?
- Does that truth leave me feeling out-of-place; like a fish out of water?
- If there was nothing “holding me back” what would I love to do with my life?
- What is my truth and how can I live my truth?
- Have I looked for a way(s) to live my truth?
- What is keeping me from pursuing my truth?
- How can I use my truth to live my life and follow my dreams?
- Am I committed to finding ways to use my gifts, talents and abilities in ways that will work for me?
- How can I use my gifts, talents and abilities in ways that will work for me?
- How can I use my gifts, talents and abilities to live my truth?
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