These experiences are life changing. It is almost as if to move from survival to thriving we are forced to face our personal responsibility in the choices of our life. Often we change friends, rethink relationships, change careers and reevaluate health choices. This takes most people years to go from Waking Up! to actually being AWAKE. During this process we develop self-awareness. It comes at a cost and with much pain and suffering and ends up with the sweetness called being AWAKE. Life has new meaning and purpose.

The other way to gain self-awareness I will call the short-cut.

THE SHORTCUT.

The shortcut is achieved when you follow a proven path to creating the results you want: with expert guidance. In this case it is a guided journey through WAKING UP! to become AWAKE to your life and her magical mystical journey.

While I call this the shortcut, please know that it takes years and I believe it is an ongoing unfolding that will continue to occur throughout your entire life. The difference between the Cosmic 2 x 4 approach and the Shortcut is that there is awareness. Awareness allows you to be awake to what is happening in your life so that you don’ t get broadsided. Challenges still happen, however you have the ability to stay in alignment with your own integrity, with your own heart’ s desires and make choices from that foundational center. Life takes on a honey sweetness that seems to slightly flavor even the most mundane aspects of life.

The pain and suffering we often experience is caused by being out of alignment with ourselves. Without knowing yourself how could you possibly know how to stay in alignment?

Mindset is a buzzword that seems to be flying around these days. It is however so much more than just sunshine and positive thoughts. In Radically Engaged Living™ mindset is defined as:

MINDSET:

Knowing the proven perspective to open yourself( which in turn opens your life experiences and opportunities) to possibility. This information we are NOT taught through our schools and society. It is deep... complex and IMPERATIVE to living Radically Engaged.

When I think of mindset I see it as if everyone had a pair of sunglasses on as we walk through and experience life. Each of us wears our very own pair, uniquely our own. These glasses are like filters that only allow certain perspectives to be seen. So what I see is different than what you may see.

If we have cloudy lenses on our glasses then we can’ t see the vivid beauty of the world around us... everything we see is cloudy and fuzzy. Through life we have choices to change our glasses for ones that can SEE the world more clearly. We can choose ones that fit us better, feel good or we can choose to wear the ones that are popular and the trend... you know the ones someone else told us we should be wearing.

Mindset is the ability to know what glasses you are wearing and to make a different choice to continue enhancing your life experience. It takes courage because seeing life through clear lenses can be challenging. You however are oh so courageous. And a success mindset requires you to be wearing the glasses that see the possibility of success.