Navigating to Your Dreams
You are (perhaps painfully) aware of where you are now. You may be frustrated with how slowly it seems like your goals are coming to fruition... or are not moving forward at all. So how do you shift your mindset around accomplishment, or progress? And how do you navigate your daily choices around prioritizing your dreams? I believe that our dreams are calls from our heart to live more FULLY. Let’s answer the call!
What is Your Map?
The wise and wonderful Cheshire Cat (from Alice in Wonderland) said “If you do not know where you are going, then any road will take you there!” I love this quote because it infers the difference between living INTENTIONALLY and On Purpose viz simply reacting to what life throws into your path. Obviously, in order to get to any “destination” intentionally, one needs a map. A map can take many forms but each one serves the purpose of providing you with the overarching landscape, the “land features” such as rivers to cross, or mountains to climb, and the various roads or paths that provide the outline of choices you can make in your journey that will take you to your desired end state or location. The key of course is having clarity – not only on the Big Picture “landscape” of the “Whats” and “Whys” of your dream but also on the CHOICES you can and have been making on the road to your desired destination.
Obviously, there is no single Map of Life, you must create your own. The first step in doing so is to gain clarity on the WHAT you want to accomplish, or learn, or experience as well as the WHY. Why do you want it? Is it for the best of reasons and in your Highest Good? Or is it coming from a place of lack and a need for something, such as acknowledgement? These WHYs do not drive us to reach our goals, they only re-enforce what we feel we do not already have as we pursue them. (Get clear on your “map” - my Life Visioning process can be used to create your own dream or life “map”, get it HERE.)
What is Your Compass?
The compass we use to navigate through life’s situations and circumstances, our own inner landscape, and how we relate to others can also be reactive or intentional. If you have been in my community then it is very likely you use your Inner Guidance and connection to your Guides as your Compass to navigate the various paths or choices we can take to our dreams. This deep connection provides a level of certainty in our choices, once we are able to tap into that ability regularly.
This deep connection can be fostered and strengthened like a muscle. The first step that many take is to gain self-awareness around one’s Soul Purpose. This is a beautiful first step, especially if an experience or other intangible outcome is your desired “destination” more than a particular accomplishment or goal to be achieved. “Mastery” on your Soul’s Path arises both out of the ashes of a repeated experience as well as from intentionally choosing the experience we DO want to be having, and showing up for ourselves in that way.
Sometimes it is not a lack of clarity that needs to be removed from our path, but rather our own resistance. Resistance comes from within and arises from our own conditioning and the limiting beliefs we are still holding onto or those particular ones that are surrounding the dreams or goals you are pursuing. It often shows up as fear (of judgement, of failure, of ridicule) or as doubt (in yourself, in what you want, in whether this is what you should be pursuing). What resistance has shown up for you in this journey? Have you chosen to understand it better and power through it, or are you allowing it to hold you back?
Finally, you know you are IN FLOW on your journey when synchronicities show up to encourage you or affirm your choices, and things seem to click together every step of the way. FLOW happens when you CHOOSE YOU and stay committed to what fuels your Soul! Go HERE for my free ebook “5 Ways to Powerfully Navigate the Gap” for additional ways to stay on the Path of Your Dreams!
Ready to take the plunge into your greatest Life Adventure? Need support around gaining clarity, powering through or clearing your blocks or resistance? Let’s chat! I can help you connect to and embody your Soul’s Purpose - to step into the dream life you were MEANT to live!