I believe the truest way to discover what your next step is, is always to go within.
It’s to stop what you’re doing, get away from the noise, and tune in to the message from soul.
The truth is, you’ve been getting these messages all of your life - you just haven’t heard most of them because you were too busy trying to force your way to success.
Whether it was following a specific launch plan to a T –
Or doing something that felt out of alignment, but that you were told that you must –
Or saying something in a way that you thought you needed to say it, in order for people to respond favorably –
Regardless, you blocked yourself from achieving all that you know you were born to achieve, by simply going out inside of going within.
Of all the lessons I’ve learned in my life, the best, and most lucrative one, is that all of the answers I seek are already inside of me.
There is no one I need to check with. No plan I need to follow, except the one that’s already mapped out in my soul.
It’s funny because the other day I was having a conversation with someone about why I hire mentors (and I’ve done many posts on this, too), and I said –
“I don’t hire mentors so that they can tell me what to do. I hire mentors to remind me of who I am. And with that knowledge, I always know EXACTLY what to do.”
Having a mentor, or someone else you turn to for guidance, is not for getting answers to any questions you may hold inside, but for bringing you back to who you are at your core, so you can become all that you were always meant to be.
No one can give you the answers or perfect next steps except for you.
Of course you can have help, you can have someone to REMIND you and MOTIVATE you to go within to get the answers you seek –
But those answers?
They are already known by your soul.
And all you need to do to learn them is to go within and ASK for them.
This week I’ve committed to doing daily meditation. It’s something I’ve done off and on, a few times per week, but recently I realized that every time I create something that just feels AMAZING, it always came after a meditation.
Every time I’ve felt stuck, I only ever felt completely UN-STUCK after going within.
My mediation practice is short. Maybe 5-10 minutes at a maxium. I just close my eyes, ask a question, and sit until I feel called to open my eyes and move on with my day.
9 times out of 10, there is no answer to my question. I don’t try to force it. I just get on with my day and then aim to try again in a few hours (which doesn’t always happen, if I’m being honest!).
But most of the time, an answer comes. And it is SO FUCKING CLEAR it’s actually kind of comical.
Pretty much every meditation session ends with me asking myself “why the hell do I make this so hard?”, because the answer to the question I’ve been asking for what feels like forever, was just answered in a matter of minutes.
I’m not saying you should meditate (but I do highly recommend it), but do SOMETHING to tune in to your inner guidance.
I also love journaling for this.
Before journaling, I would lie on the couch/in bed and just ask myself a question.
The point is to get quiet and listen.
The answers you seek are buried deep within the silence. Go within, and let your soul guide your way.
xx,
Cassie