What lights you up and brings your soul massive joy?
I never thought I would ever ask this question to myself. Honestly, I didn’t even know this was a question. I just thought life was full of ups and downs and I just have to live it to the fullest by finding moments of happiness every time.
I never wondered what is that one thing that I was born to do. What are the things that bring me true happiness? What are the things that I would want to do if money or ego wasn’t in play? What lights up my soul and what lights up my ego?
My ego told me I liked number crunching, I liked new software tools that I could learn to enhance my career, I liked leadership and taking charge, I liked being a great employee who gave 200% on the KPI’s (which meant a bigger package and management roles).
My soul told me I liked talking to people, listening to their problems, being a support to them and also give them the tools to help them get out of their despair. I realized I loved spirituality and the bigger picture of life and want to help people understand the magic of the universe too.
While I discovered what I liked, now the big question was what could I do towards it with the skills that I have and make a career out of it too. I was constantly thinking about it and suddenly a series popped up on Gaia. It featured famous media personalities sharing how they overcame limiting beliefs and lived a life of fulfilment and purpose. Interestingly, one of the guests on the show shared her dilemmas that she had to live through and how she ultimately realized it was coaching that lit her up. The moment I heard “Coaching” it sparked something in me too and I looked up more on it. I never thought there would be courses on coaching and to my surprise I found a bunch of courses online. The one that resonated with me the most was on “Life Coaching”. I felt my soul telling me this is it.
Ofcourse ego was slowly creeping in trying to scare me and talk me out of it. Reminding me all the education I have done so far and me thinking of throwing it all away to start something from scratch. I was getting a little confused. That’s when universe again told me in one of its ways to go for it. Later that evening, I shared my blog post with one of my friends and after reading it out of nowhere he said- “You should be a life coach”. I was so surprised when he said that but now I knew I can’t let ego get the best of me and I need to stop being scared.
Needless to say, I listened to my soul and signed up for Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and Life Coaching certificate course. This course will give me the foundation knowledge of the link between behaviours and emotion patterns and also teach me to how to use the tools to be best coach to my clients.
For the first time I chose not to listen to my ego and all its attempts to scare me of the unknown. My problems and blocks brought me closer to me. And that’s what I want to share with all the readers of the post. Look at your problems from a different perspective and see what it is telling you.
Understand who you are and let go of what doesn’t serve you anymore or align with you.
Throw away all the childhood and societal programming, love yourself completely and love your flaws even more because that’s what makes you unique and makes you YOU.
I took the first step towards a much bigger goal. The path will become clearer as I move forward. Yes I am scared but I know it will all workout in the end because it’s the path my soul chose and I know I will receive massive guidance from the universe as I go.
I loved these synchronicities that led me down this path and helped me figure out what I truly wanted to do. Trust the guidance you receive and listen to every word of information coming your way.
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