Follow Your Inner GPS for Personal Change

admin@waytogoal.com — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 07:00:00 GMT

Making any major change in life can be daunting. Career shifts, relationship changes, lifestyle transitions, and overcoming personal development obstacles can feel quite overwhelming and scary. The frustration, the lack of clarity, the lack of confidence can be great. Fear of making the wrong decision can stop you in your tracks. Not knowing where you are going in the future can lead you to make choices that fail to serve you. Feeling like there are no right decisions, you can remain stuck going over and over the same issues in your mind with no resolution. A confused mind always says no.

If only you had a clear path that you could feel confident is the best for you. Someone or something that you could trust and rely on to be sure you are making the “right” decisions. You can get in your own way without realizing it. The current situation, past history or other people get the blame or credit for the current circumstances. What you may crave is confidence, trust, clarity and support. Feeling powerless to change in the face of change appears real and maybe insurmountable especially without the necessary compassionate support of others.

What is real and can be relied upon is the unlimited inner strength and wisdom we all possess deep inside each of us. That inner wisdom is the non-judgmental part of use that acts like our own “inner GPS” guiding us in the direction each of us is meant to go, if we can allow ourselves to listen to and trust it. That powerful, all knowing, inner wisdom is there in all of us, lying dormant until we are ready to surrender all other influences, tune inward and trust.

Once we listen we may feel a glimpse of clarity or ease. And it is up to us to decide if we want to take action in the direction our inner wisdom is guiding us. Choosing not to listen means we don’t understand or trust that “inner GPS” then we may play and experiment a bit before we can put our full faith in it. Maybe we’ll run it by others close to us to see what they think. Maybe we’ll take a few steps in the direction we are being guided carefully assessing at each moment if it’s in line with what we want. Maybe we start with some smaller goal or challenge and let our inner GPS guide us toward a path. There is no fail proof way other than to experiment.

When making a big life decision, it’s only when we are in full alignment with our values, our beliefs and inner spirit that we can truly know we are making the right decision for us. And that takes conscious effort to explore ourselves, our values, beliefs, abilities, identities and spirit. That doesn’t mean we can’t make good decisions otherwise. It just means that listening inwardly can give us a greater sense of confidence in situations where we feel the most uneasy or conflicted.

Doreen Amatelli, MBA, PCC, NLP is a certified professional life coach and workshop/seminar leader specializing in personal growth and self-development as the basis for helping people achieve their goals. She is a compassionate and intuitive listener and speaker who identifies practical yet creative options for helping people navigate through major life transitions. Through her workshops, seminars, and coaching she teaches individuals and audiences tools, techniques and concepts to overcome their roadblocks, opening a clear path to achieving their goals. Copyright 2011 Doreen Amatelli. All Rights Reserved

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Follow Your Inner GPS for Personal Change