How to elevate your life through 'Courage to Act with Intention'

The other day I was speaking to a client and the conversation was so familiar. Perhaps it will even resonate with you. The client, let’s call him XYZ, was feeling unfilled, a bit lost and even frustrated with where he was in his life despite being seen as very successful by others. When we talked further, a lot of what was driving these feelings was his unshakeable desire to obtain even greater financial success.?

In order to tackle this, I asked XYZ? “why is greater financial success important to you? What do you value about achieving more financial success?"

As XYZ answered the question, he was doing what most clients do. He started with a value and then quickly moved to sharing his beliefs. This is quite common because so often people confuse values and beliefs.?

If you find yourself doing this too, let’s spend a moment aligning on the difference. Values tend to unite us because they are guiding principles for what we deem important in our life (trust, friendship, connection, freedom, etc.). Beliefs, on the other hand, are assumptions that we hold true based on our experiences. As a result, beliefs tend to divide us since they are all relative to individual perspectives.?

So what do you value about financial success??

• The freedom to have choice?
• The ability to make a meaningful contribution in the world?
• The adventure it provides like traveling around the world?
• To build community or establish greater connections?

Once you have clarified your values, it is time to dive deeper. Here is where I asked XYZ to consider any beliefs he might hold which could be in direct conflict with his highest values.

Feel free to do the same exercise. To help, here are a few common ones I hear as a coach:

• “I have to work hard for money which means I won’t be able to spend so much time with my family or friends or other hobbies I have.”
• “I don’t deserve money.” or “I’m not good enough for that type of success.”
• “Once I reach financial success, I will be able to relax.”

What beliefs are getting in your way?

Going back to XYZ, I asked him to really listen to his beliefs as I read them back to him and for him to see how they might compete with his truest desires. I then asked him to reflect on how this made him feel??

What about you?

Things I often hear: it makes me feel sad, depleted, overwhelmed, frustrated, and even shameful or guilty.

With these questions, my clients quickly gain new perspective. They start to realize that these beliefs are disempowering them. They also notice how these beliefs fill them with contracted energy. And they start to see how they have become the effect of life - stuck on auto pilot, allowing themselves to live out of subconscious habits because they never confronted, challenged or even looked at their beliefs more closely.?

This is my cue to reassure XYZ, my clients and you - that you have what it takes to re-energize the creator again and fulfill your biggest dreams. It starts with the desire to expand your Mindset Energy. And the first step is to make a conscious choice about what you really want to believe.?

Try it now by answering these questions:

• What do you want to really want to believe about financial success?
• How do these beliefs align with your values and enable you to embody the person that can achieve these desires??
• How would it feel once your reach financial success with these new beliefs?

For the cautious people (or even skeptics) that are reading this, you might be saying “is this really so easy?”?

The answer is really up to you. Change is inevitable, yet it is still scary for so many to find the courage to change. Some people take longer and have a harder time with change as they prefer to resist it and stay in the discomfort of their life because that is where they know what to expect and have become more comfortable as a result. These people choose to be driven by fear. Others choose a path of less resistance and decide to flow with the changes. These people are driven by courage.

Thus, the ease and speed of change ultimately rests in your courage to act with intention. To have the willingness and motivation to rewire any belief system that is standing in the way of your unlimited potential.

In 1949, psychologist Donald Hebb laid out his compelling “assembly theory” for how the brain could be rewired. It is best summarized by the statement “neurons that fire together wire together.” The idea is that neurons responding to the same stimulus connect preferentially to form “neuronal ensembles.”?This means your brain is flexible and you hold the key.

So what do you want to fire together? What kind of energy does this create and how would this impact your life??

Sometimes it is easier to start by asking yourself “who could I be and what could I achieve without these limiting beliefs?” And let that future vision be the spark to help you get started and the motivation to keep going.

Ultimately, the path to true freedom is your empowerment. This comes when you have freedom to choose your thoughts that then will guide your energy, habits and actions. This is when you will find you have expanded your ability to have courage to act with intention - where standing out from the crowd will feel joyful, peaceful and dare I say extremely satisfying at the innermost level.?

What did XYZ decide? He chose expansion. He came up with a new belief for financial success and his abilities to achieve it on his terms. At the end of the call, XYZ was inspired and ready to act. I was honored to be there witnessing his transformation during a one hour session and happy to report that he is well on his way to that new vision of financial success.??

Where do you stand when it comes to 'Courage to Act with Intention'? This is one of the eight Mindset Energy competencies we assess at Zielo Studio before you begin your expansion journey with one of our coaches. It’s never too late to elevate your potential and your life.?

Laura Kyttanen

CEO, Co-founder

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