Do your choices reflect what you know?
Moving from self-discovery to living authentically through one intentional choice at a time.
Knowing Who You Are Is Only the Beginning
Knowing who you are gives you information.
It can help you understand what nourishes you. What you value. What your expectations are for your own life. Where you need boundaries. Where you want to say yes. And where you need to say no.
But then comes another question:
What are you going to do with what you know?
One of the things I talk about through the FEEL Framework is moving beyond simply learning things about ourselves and beginning to put what we know into practice in our actual lives.
So, today's FEEL Connection is about what happens after we begin learning those things about ourselves.
Do Your Choices Reflect What You Know?
So many times, choices are not inherently right or wrong.
The question is whether the choice reflects YOU.
From Defining Yourself to Living From What You Know
One of the Ways to Engage with this is simple:
Make one choice that reflects who YOU know yourself to be.
Not ten choices. Not change your whole life. Not quit your job, move across the country, buy a house, sell a house, or book an international flight by Friday.
One choice.
- Maybe you know you're someone who needs quiet to feel grounded, so you protect 30 minutes of it.
- Maybe connection is deeply important to you, so you call someone you've been missing.
- Maybe adventure is part of who you are, so you finally look into something you've wanted to try.
- Maybe you've realized you've outgrown a commitment, expectation, or label, and today's choice is simply admitting that to yourself.
- Maybe your choice is a yes.
- Maybe it's a no.
The important part isn't what someone else would choose.
It's asking:
Does this reflect who I know myself to be?
And Then, Stay Curious
Because knowing yourself doesn't mean creating a definition you now have to live inside forever.
We grow. We change. We discover things. We outgrow things. We enter new seasons.
And sometimes we realize that the woman we're becoming wants something the woman we used to be never imagined.
So, rather than turning what you know about yourself into another set of expectations you have to live up to, stay curious about who you are becoming.
For this week, come back to one thing:
Make one choice that reflects who YOU know yourself to be.
Then notice how it feels to make a choice from that place.
That's where knowing yourself begins becoming trusting yourself. And where reflection begins becoming practice.
