Our behavior is rooted in beliefs. We often want to change our behavior or someone else’s and are met with resistance. Other times when we ask someone to change, we elicit fear and a need to protect a sense of self. Only when we feel safe enough to change, do we. In addition, sometimes we are often fed up enough to change as well.

Underneath intention is the question of why. The result of understanding our intention is the difference between flow and hustle. Energized and burned out. Contentment and frustration.

When you do the deep work to identify your values, you no longer operate from other people’s values or conditioned beliefs. You operate from your truest self.

Reacquainting with your True Self requires you to unpack and rebuild your own truths, to create new paradigms, and live a life where you show up as you. It requires you to think for yourself. When we begin to understand who we are apart from what the world tells us we need to be, when we seek internal validation and our inner knowing to guide our path, then we become the authentic leaders, coworkers, friends, and family members that we long to be.

For most of my life, I was driven by shoulds rather than a life fully lived and loved. To awaken to a new way requires you to question and shed what you have always known. To realize the power you seek resides within you.