Life By Design or Default?
Jul 24, 2024
How do you live your life - by design or default?
You've moved from fulltime to part time remote, making more money with the same benefits, traveling to your favorite places in the world while you start up a photography business - all within 13 weeks.
You're living a life by design.
How do you put a price on going from thinking about leaving your corporate job to redesigning your role remotely, making the same money in less time, and traveling through your favorite cities - all while bringing a new perspective to the world with your photography.
You can't.
By design means you live your life with intention, you control the direction of your life and take action to get there like my client who went from full-time corporate to growing a life filled with nature, travel, and a dream business he designed. A life and business that is aligned with and hones in on her authentic style, skills, talents, and purpose.
You're walking through the motions of your life, going to a job you used to love now it fills your soul with dread at the idea of staying there longer than you truly intended - but the prestige and money...
You’re living a life by default.
You’re feeling lost, you're about to leave your job, you want to find work that has deeper meaning to you but have no idea what you want to do - so you stay, thinking one day you'll leave. You’re living by default.
By default means you allow external forces to control your life, your comfort zone dictates your path. You’re limiting your growth potential by convincing yourself you’re safer where you are than an unknown alternative. It's understandable to live by default with so many external forces supporting the life you've lived up to now - your habits and patterns have created what appears to be a solid foundation.
Does this sound familiar?
- You have the feeling of being stuck or trapped in the life that you have.
- All external evidence says you’re successful, but you don’t feel inspired, energized, motivated. When you start to move in a different direction fear comes in to play. The uncertainty of unknown opportunity is causing you to hesitate, keeping you where you are, in your really-not-so-comfortable comfort zone.
- You feel unfulfilled in your job or even loathe it but you continue to go to work everyday without an alternative plan.
- Your career or business no longer excites you but there is too much external support in all you've accomplished. The uncertainty enters your thoughts – It would be foolish to do something different.
If any of this sounds familiar, you may be living your life in default mode. Living in default mode is a form of being stuck.
My clients get stuck because they are trying to avoid the pain of doing something different (implementing change) OR the perceived pain of what they have to go through to make a desired change. Whether you become stuck because you are dug in deep into your comfort zone or you are stuck trying to actively leave a situation or make change that brings on uncertainty and discomfort, you are remaining in default mode - for all intense purposes, stuck.
I invite you to ask yourself
How is being stuck, living in default mode, protecting me?
My clients who feel the stressful-numbness of living their life in default mode, meaning following where their life is taking them not leading their life where they want it to go shift into design mode within 3 months inside Authentic Life Design 1:1, we partner to:
- Reimagine your vision of a fulfilling life. Define with clarity where you want to be and design an authentic plan for your vision, create a personal roadmap.
- Reset your thinking and develop a mindset that empowers you through change.Your thoughts make your reality. I share science-based techniques and exercises to help you manage your thoughts and emotions to produce breakthroughs and forward momentum.
- Redesign your life and execute with joy. Set and get the goals that bring your vision to life.
- Own your achievements. Celebrate every step of the journey.
Here's to living a life by design!
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