Unlocking Your Quintessential Self: The Path to Authentic Power
Mary Jane.
Not the shoes, but the woman who owned the small business where I’d been hired to help in an assistant role.
Mary Jane liked things done one way, and one way only.
Her way or it was wrong.
Never mind that the result is the same. She was a sock, shoe, sock, shoe sort of person. Those that are sock, sock, shoe, shoe — well, that’s just wrong.
The entire conference table was set up for a project. She showed me how to do it (her way).
It didn’t work in my brain; in fact, I found it illogical.
So I did it my way.
As a micro manager, she came in to hover… and I got busted! I had to switch back to her way.
But then I switched back.
This environment was oppressive.
It’s an environment I did not and do not thrive in.
This experience was at a time in my life when I was pushing my way out of my cocoon — and Mary Jane kept shoving me back in to cook a bit longer to her liking. Trouble was I was ready to emerge… And I was finding...
Decisions That Define Us: 5 Keys to Aligned Choices
I didn’t know it, but the decision I made would change my life.
I saw the announcement about an event in a state I loved and I didn’t hesitate or give it a second thought. I said yes, clicked through and invested.
No second thoughts. No excuses. No what ifs or yeah buts.
This is the ease of making choices from a place of Knowing.
The event was like Going Home. It was so right I found myself wondering why I had diverged from this path? Yet I didn’t even ask myself this question in this manner. It was still cloudy, but my contentment was familiar and I relished it.
The result of the decision ultimately created a very real struggle — and many questions surfaced:
What does this mean (to me)?
What do I DO about it?
If I do go back, (change my mind) what will people think?
I honored this struggle and gave myself 3 months (!) before I could actually accept it inside my body.
Here are five tips for making any decisions, particularly difficult ones;
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