Aspire Magazine: Inspiration for a Woman's Soul.(TM) Feb/Mar 2017 Aspire Mag Full Issue | Page 24

This way of living I call Radically Engaged Living™. I discovered that my happiness is directly related to how engaged I was in MY OWN life. I’ m on a mission to help others define and create their very own Radically Engaged Life™ because I know when we live this way we are able to bring the fullness of who we are to our work, our families and ourselves. We fully experience what it means to be a spiritual Being having a human experience.

I’ m delighted and honored to be an Expert Columnist here at Aspire Magazine and look forward to sharing with you different ways of looking at your life and business. Forward motion and traction will be an everyday occurrence with practical and magical opportunities showing up to greet you. So join me here where I will be taking you deeper into just how you can create your very own Radically Engaged Life™.

Radically Engaged Lives are created. They are not bestowed upon us. There are tools and strategies that you can learn that will move you toward your Radically Engaged Life™. This I know... happiness is directly linked to the level you are willing to engage in your life. So let’ s get started by looking at 3 very different ways to live life.

First we must understand where we are. Getting honest with ourselves is a key component to any real growth. Along our journey there are rules and signs and guideposts. I have found there are three main ways that people live and below I share guideposts to what kind of life you are living. Without self-condemnation identify which of these areas you identify with. To get where we want to go the first step is knowing where we are beginning from.

The prisoner-of-war( POW) life perspective feels imprisoned and these people believe they are not free to make decisions and live according to their own desires. Other perspectives include:

Living safe by not venturing far from their community, family, work or country.

Live in the past, being bound to experiences they never got over( health, lost job, divorce, economy etc.)

See the world as scary.

Feel and act as if they don’ t have a voice, therefore they don’ t use it.

Have very strong and limited beliefs about what is possible for them.

Complain often about things they wish they could do, be or have.

Blame others and feel / behave resentful as if they just don’ t have the freedom to make their own decisions without judgement.

A predominant underlying feeling is resentment and frustration.

The Comfortable life perspective feels they have so much to be thankful for and feels