Can I Just Hit Snooze on My Life?

As a life coach, I spend my days working to inspire, motivate and encourage people to be more positive and productive in their lives.  My work is all about helping people like YOU make their dreams a reality in their day-to-day lives.  So, given all that positivity, I obviously wake up in the morning full of sunshine, roses and possibility, ready to take on the world… NOT!  I am just like most of the other 7.046 billion people in the world: my alarm goes off, I groan and roll over and feel like screaming “Nooooooo, God, whyyyyyyyyy?” at the top of my lungs.  And some times that is exactly what I do.  But what separates me, and more importantly, anyone else who is committed to living an amazing life, is that MOST of the time, we hear that glaring conversation of resistance in our heads, roll over and get out of bed to create a different conversation in the world.  We choose, every day (mostly), to live consistent to what we’re committed to, NOT the automatic conversations in our heads.

It is not that resistance is ABSENT, it is that it is made INCONSEQUENTIAL in our lives by our choice to ignore it and choose a different conversation.  We all have automatic conversations that limit us.  The most powerful people, however, have learned to master the ability to choose (and create) what conversation(s) uses them.  Will it be 16 snoozes and being an hour late to work that starts your day?  Or, instead, will you get up, cause excitement and create something extraordinary?  I choose the latter.  But it IS NOT EASY.  Choosing beyond your automatic conversations takes intentionality.  You must distinguish your limiting self-talk.  You must be awake to who you are committed to being, what you are committed to and how you are going to make it happen.  Generating an amazing life means you have to design your life and how you live it on a daily basis.  For instance, the automatic conversation I wake up into most mornings is “I don’t want to!”  I don’t want to wake up, I don’t want to get dressed, I don’t want to get my kids off to school and I don’t want to see clients… if I was going to Disney World, I wouldn’t want to do that, either… you get the point.  I just don’t want to.  I know that this attitude is not going to get me where I want to go in life.  So, instead, I choose a different conversation.  I choose that who I am is that all people are heroes committed to creating an amazing life and an incredible world–and my job is to help them do that.  I cannot do that with my head under the covers.  Therefore, I put something on my nightstand to remind me who I REALLY am, so that when I wake up into “I don’t want to,” I am reminded to choose something different.  My reminder is a plaque given to me by a friend that says “Be the kind of woman that when your feet hit the floor each morning the devil says, ‘Oh crap, she’s up!'”  Now THAT inspires me.  So I get up, put my feet on the floor and start creating magic.

Success is never an accident.  If you are committed to being extraordinary, you have to create effective systems that call you into extraordinary choices and action.  So this week, don’t let your automatic conversations rule your day.  Take back your life.  Give up the snooze button and decide who you are going to be and what you are going to create.  Today is YOUR day; OWN it.

CALL TO ACTION:  Who are you committed to being in the world?  Distinguish that and create a “reminder” for yourself on your nightstand or bathroom mirror.  Read it every day and allow it to change you.