We know that the quick fix isn’t sustainable, right? A quick fix might get us through the next 5 minutes or the next hour or the next 4 hours but the issue will come back again and again and again, until we take the time to go deeper, look inwards and truly feel what’s going on.
I’ve lived in the quick fix world:
- Book your next holiday before you have even gone on the holiday you’ve been planning for 12 months.
- Continuously take antibiotics because it fixes me now but the issue keeps reoccurring
- Buy a gym membership, go hard for the first week and then use it maybe another 5 times over the year!
This isn’t new and as we take on more in life – a job, a partner, a child or three, volunteer work, we start looking for ways to cut ourselves a break. Things like buying snap frozen vegies instead of going to the farmers market for fresh produce, making coffee our go to everyday, paying someone to clean our home. None of this is bad, actually it can be really good for us and not just our bodies but our minds as well. However, in my opinion, it does become bad is when this becomes our modus operandi – our norm.
It’s time to break free and question what were doing, we’re totally comfortable questioning what other people do but we often struggle with turning the mirror back onto ourselves. I’m not saying we need to be overly critical of where we’re at or how we got there, what I’m suggesting is we shine a light on that things we’ve been doing that probably don’t feel great but we do them anyway.
Going deeper in our life is a beautiful gift. The simple question – ‘why do I still do this?’ and ‘does it align with me and my intentions/goals/vision?’ is a great place to start. It’s definitely a skill I’m learning, I’m an incredible problem solver but the issue with that is I probably haven’t understood what were actually trying to solve or if you were just venting – I’ve already solved it for you!
I recently went through a goal setting session, I wrote down my goal and then ask the question ‘and why is that important to me?’ – interesting question hey. I’d write down my answer and ask the question again. I would do this maybe 5 or 6 times until I got down to the core of the goal and it usually always came back to the same thing – my soul is yearning to be more.
So how about we commit to going deeper to gain a better understanding of who we are and what we are here to do. I know we can all say what were not here to do – for me its eat strawberry jam YUCK! But have we really figured out what it is that we love to do and that we want to do forever? I know we learn along the way but if we stay on the surface who’s that serving? Its definitely not you and in turn its definitely not me.
