The Authority of Choice

Ever feel confused or confounded with which road to take, what decision to make, which is your next step? In a world operating at a dizzying pace, with myriad options, it’s often difficult to streamline and clearly focus on which path leads to your optimal outcome. Sometimes the sheer number of options is enough to send you into a tailspin of inactivity, frozen in a cocoon of doubt and uncertainty. Where is the stillness and spaciousness of satori?

What if confusion is a call to step into being the authority in your own life? What if the path of procrastination is littered with signposts to something new and yet to be discovered? What if no guide or guru can lead you there? What if only YOU can do it?

The most transformative place from which to engage choice is not the experts, or even your intellect. The most dynamic source for authentic choice is birthed within yourself, from the power of your own authority. Notice that thought leaders and entrepreneurs do it ‘out of the box.’ Whether it’s Bill Gates or Richard Branson, it’s not that they go out of the way to break the rules (ok, maybe they do) . . . it’s that the ‘new’ doesn’t live in ‘the system.’ You must go off the beaten path – tune into your own rhythms – to find the way to what you KNOW is wanting to be found. What is that for you?

Here are some ways to explore owning your authority:

1. Go on an information diet. Be very selective about what you allow into the inner sanctum of your world. Whether it’s radio, tv, movies, books, blogs or magazines, limit the access to your external sources of information. Your discernment will sharpen when you start emptying the unnecessary input and creating the space for your natural intelligence.

2. Spend quality time with your own essence, bask in your own energy. Filling up your day with lots do is a grave disservice to your being. When you first awaken spend time in the stillness of your core essence, luxuriate in it the way you would in a bubble bath. Throughout your day take time-out’s and feel the clear streaming of energy exchange that is occuring constantly. There is nothing more energizing and aligning than to BE in your FULL magnificence. This practice alone will render the ‘I don’t know syndrome’ impotent.

3. Choose an unprogrammed life, over and over again. Every day do something that is out of your routine, out of the norm. Start flaunting those assumptions and BE someone you ordinarily wouldn’t be. If you’re outspoken, try out deep listening. If you’ve been playing the wallflower, speak up. If you normally jump to conclusions, create space and linger in the moment before you respond. Just because you haven’t spoken out loud doesn’t mean you haven’t launched the energy of your thinking into the pool of creation.

Change happens when you shift your focus and free the form. Then things can come apart on their own and realign in a new way. The only part where there is some ‘effort’ is in choosing something different. If you practice this on a regular basis you will find that you have more energy, power and presence. You’ll KNOW who you are and what to do because you are BEING YOU and not who you’ve been told you are.

Your only freedom is your choice. Just like exercising your muscles, every time you make YOUR choice you strengthen your KNOWING of who you are. Then any choice is the RIGHT one.

Your choices are the vehicle for your evolution.