Are You Ignoring What Really Matters?

Is there something important that you have wanted to do, but haven’t? 

I am at the start of a large project that is very meaningful to me and yet am hesitating to take the next step.  Ironically, in my coaching sessions with clients there are themes that emerge that often mirror my own.  Here is this week’s theme.

We all have gifts. When we don’t use them, we can become irritable, 
stressed, “feel off”, unhappy and even depressed. 

This is where I help people – to get unstuck and tap into the gifts they have that they didn’t know were lost. 

So often, I see others going through their life ignoring something that is calling them. This happens because of what I call “clutter”- outside influences such as what we learned from our parents, interpretation of experiences and how we try to emulate or please others.  This clutter  gets in the way of who we truly are. 

What do you desire to do, or who do you desire to be?

I don’t mean surface desires, but the ones deep down in our center or knowing, not in our head.  For more about this topic, read here. 

The root of the word desire in Latin is from the phrase de sidere meaning “from the stars”.  The star is actually inside you. Here are questions to help you tap into this navigational star: 

What are you refusing to listen to, that has always been within you? 

What is a dream you have had that you are ignoring? 

What is something you know you need to do, make a decision on, or take the next step in? 

Next: List 10 things you would be honoring within yourself if you moved forward.

What is keeping you from that? 

Recognizing these areas in our life that we may be ignoring is the first step. What else is desire? The need to do something that is so momentous, it may scare us. And yet, utilizing our true gifts is what we are on this earth to do. It is how we cultivate what really counts.