Living Wide Awake

What does living a life Wide Awake look like for you? Does zip lining through the trees give you any ideas? If you've never run a zip line I highly recommend it!

What makes you want to jump up out of bed each morning eager to live your day feeling fully alive and dreaming wide awake?

I am going through somewhat of a discovery process around this topic of living Wide Awake. For some reason the other day I became acutely aware of my age. I don't know, I guess it hits everyone at different times in their lives. I'm coming up on 45, now mind you I certainly don't feel that age - most days and I really could care less about the numbers. I began thinking about how much of my life is already over. I don't have a sense of discouragement or regret about what my life has been about or what I've accomplished, but I do have a sense that God is speaking and giving me an urgency to do more. To live BIGGER.

I'm reading a great book by Erwin Raphael McManus called Wide Awake -the future is waiting within you. I highly recommend it if you sense you are walking through life asleep, without a dream, a vision & not living fully engaged in who you are designed to be.

The other day I heard someone say, "I am afraid to start school at my age - it will take 4 years and I'll be 50 years old when I graduate!" Well, guess what - it will still take 4 years and they will still be 50 years old regardless of whether they went to school or not. So why not do what you can do now to create a better future? Erwin McManus states in his book, "destiny is not something waiting for you, but something waiting within you."

The book talks about the limits we put on ourselves, Limiting Beliefs I like to call them. McManus states, "Sometimes the limitations we are willing to accept, establish the boundaries of our existence." Have you ever noticed that often times when you get into a groove of living more fully in who you are, or living more fully in what you are passionate about, that defeating and limiting thoughts begin to invade your mind?

Here's the process I've noticed about how this happens. Limiting thoughts/beliefs creep into our minds, sometimes nonchalantly, sometimes like a loud gong. We stop and listen to them, internalize them and begin to believe them. Little by little we stop doing the things we love, we stop dreaming, we stop creating, we stop imagining. Years later we wake up and realize we are stuck, and living a defeated, boring, joyless life and wonder where all those years went.

Have I painted a picture that any of you can relate with? If not, that is awesome! I acknowledge you for living a life full of purpose, wide awake and fully engaged in your life and who you are designed to be.

If you can relate, here are a few suggestions that may assist you in living wide awake and becoming more of who you are designed to be and how you can begin contributing to the world in a bigger way.

Read the book Wide Awake.

1. Journal, draw a description or picture what your current life looks like. Think in terms of Spiritually, mentally, physically and emotionally.
   
2. Write, draw or create a vision board of what would need to be different if you were living fully awake and engaged in who you are designed to be. Again, think in terms of Spiritually, mentally, physically and emotionally.
3. Make a list of your top 5 Limiting Beliefs that are keeping you stuck.
4. Journal about how those 5 Limiting Beliefs are shaping or running your life right now.
5. If you were to live without these Limiting Beliefs who would you be without them? More confident, less stressed, more significant...
6. Tell someone about numbers 1-5.
   

If you want to explore this topic further, give me a call or email. I'd love to give you a free coaching session to help you begin breaking free from these Limiting Beliefs and begin to live Wide Awake!