Aspire Magazine: Inspiration for a Woman's Soul.(TM) Aug/Sept 2016 Aspire Mag Full Issue | Page 103

~ I can’t let my true desires out because they will turn my life upside down ~ I can’t move this year, I have to wait until next year All the rules that put your life on hold. The rules that say to your Authentic Self “Not now honey, you have to wait” OR “You can NEVER do that, EVER!” The rules that hold you back rather than move you powerfully forward into your aliveness and vitality. You, my dear friend, are meant to be living a life where you are creating your own rules and breaking the ones that don’t serve you. Creating your own rules that expand and free your life into the wide open spaces of your own highest vision, rather than keep it held back in dullness and mediocrity. Here are 3 Ways to Break the Rules so You can Create the Life of Your Dreams: #1. Begin to bring the rules you have been living by to your conscious awareness. What rules do you hold yourself to? Rules that you might not even know you are living by. One way to uncover the unconscious rules that are holding you back the most is to look at where in your life are you the most stuck. I remember when I graduated from college I moved to Dallas, TX and looked for a job in my field. No matter what I tried I could not find a job and I felt like I was running really fast into a brick wall. I held to my rule “You must find a job in the field you went to school for” for a long time and it caused me so much pain. I finally gave myself permission to “break the rules” and go back to graduate school in a totally different field that was aligned with my true passion. That is when things really expanded for me in my life. You, my dear friend, are meant to be living a life where you are creating your own rules and breaking the ones that don’t serve you. So what are the most rigid rules you are holding to, that need to be broken? #2. Let your life look different. Your life is meant to look dramatically different than anyone else’s. I say to my Clients “If your life looks like everyone else’s, then you are off track. 103 CAREER/BUSINESS ~ I can’t change the direction of my business when I have announced I was going in one direction, what will people think of me? Where you are the most stuck in your life is where you can find your most limiting, rigid rules.