Let’s talk about TRUTH.
It’s simple, profound, life-changing and absolute. I love that is it unshakeable.
The more I contemplate on what truly constitutes the art of living a dream life, the more I return to this profound and beautiful topic of truth.
It’s because a dream life is all about really living in alignment with your truth in its absolute glory.
The truth is always light, expansive and of course liberating.
Truth = alignment.
Truth = power, possibility and joy.
The truth is your everything.
This week I had a big aha around the power of truth.
The realization is a simple and profound one: that truth really is the foundation for living a dream life. It’s the barometer that measures how authentically you are living.
The truth isn’t about setting a high standard that is impossible to meet or trying to define or compare your truth to someone else’s.
Rather, the truth is that guidepost, that North Star to help you see how close or far out of alignment you are with yourself and what really matters for you.
Truth is the marker for alignment.
You know the saying that the truth will set you free and it proves true every time.
I will share with you that as the torch bearer of the message of living the dream life, it has often felt hard to feel like I was the most authentic person to be sharing it.
My own perfectionism kept torturing me and telling me that everything had to be “perfect” in order for me to teach you about the dream life: tons of money in savings, a gorgeous house, beautiful car, handsome man etc….
So yes, even I bought into a fantasy version of what I should portray to you in order to feel like I was worthy of sharing my message of living the dream life – even when I know better.
So my point is that the mind will create traps for us to feel bad about ourselves as we live our dream lives.
What I know to be true is that money comes and goes, relationships and friendships come and go but our truth is absolute.
So I invite you today to measure the degree to which you are joyfully living your dream life not by how much further you have to go to reach it, but by how aligned you are with living your truth.
I invite you to release the judgment of your bank account, your relationship status, how old your car is, or how frequently you go on vacation and rather consider this:
- Am I living my truth today and actively moving in the direction of it daily (i.e making progress)?
- Am I consciously choosing for me and what I want?
- Am I enjoying my life and filling it today with people, experiences and opportunities that bring me joy?
You’ll notice that none of these questions involve judgment, perfection or an external marker to define your dream life’s success or failure.
Do you want more for your life? I’m sure you do and as long as you are living your truth and consciously making choices that will support you in creating more of what you want, you’re golden.
The key is to use TRUTH as your marker for alignment (and ultimate joy and freedom) and to continue choosing for you.
So today I invite you to celebrate all the places where you are living your truth.
And when you are ready, look at where there is room for improvement and with compassion and no judgment, make new choices that will support you in living in greater alignment with your truth.
While it may not be easy and require courage, living in our truth is simple. That’s part of what makes truth so beautiful.
