Use Slow Thinking to Review YOUR Life

 Slow thinking is a great mental space to be in to review or really look at your current life. It’s a good idea to frequently examine all the different areas that make up your life - like your job, your business, your hobbies, your family, and your relationships. What’s working and what isn’t? Are you as happy as you’d like to be? If you don’t take the time to reflect and imagine what could be, you won’t change and grow. Your personal development and growth depend on it! This is why we start on the PATHS of Self-Awareness and Goal Setting in the first month of A Pilgrimage to Self, our monthly online coaching membership. We learn that it's important to set aside some time each week to examine the different areas of your life and really think about what you want in the long run. Your life depends on it!

 Think About Your Job 

 Let’s start by discussing your job or what you do for a living. You spend a good chunk of our waking hours doing something to pay the bills. Is it what you want to do? Do you enjoy it? I’m not talking about the occasional bad day or those annoying tasks each job brings with them, but overall job satisfaction. If you’re not happy doing what you’re doing, it may be time to think about something else. Take some time to contemplate your salary and benefits as well. Is there room for improvement? What can you do to increase your chances for advancement or a raise? If you’re not going to take responsibility for your own career, who will? 

 Think About Your Business 

 You may think that this doesn’t apply to you, and maybe you're right. But for many of us, in this gig economy we’ve come to live in, keeping our job has become a business. We are the CEO of our own career and need to take an active role in finding the best options and negotiating the best deals...or maybe you’re supplementing your income with a side hustle. Nothing wrong with that, but I’m sure it could benefit from some slow thinking. Or maybe you’re trying to replace your day job with a business of your own. Good for you. Keep at it and make sure you’re on the right track by taking the time to think strategy and set some goals for the near and far future. 

 Think About Your Personal Life 

 Last but not least, take some time to review the various aspects of your personal life. What are you doing for your physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being? What’s working and what isn’t? Are you living an Intentional Life? What relationships do you want to invest more time in, which would you be better off letting go? Think about the people closest to you. What can you do to become a better friend, spouse, or parent? We all have room for improvement here. Taking the time to think about these things will make you a better person and hopefully a happier one as well. 

This is so important to living your Intentional Life...and I've helped women with this reflective process in A Pilgrimage to Self Lifestyle Coaching Membership to feel empowered and confident to move on and forward with clarity, purpose, and direction. 

The women I work with have often felt like their lives were at a DEAD END, but when they make the decision to work with me, they've realized that they are really at a CROSSROADS...they take the first step on the PATHS I've created to move them on and forward with the next chapter of their lives...we use masterclasses on various topics, interviews with lifestyle experts, and practical, inspirational, and spiritual guidance provided in ebooks, workbooks, exercises, and Q & A sessions.

It's wonderful to have such an encouraging and supportive community...and to see the impact on these women's lives...Donna went back to school after raising her grandsons and is now working her dream job, Jean is on a health journey and has already lost 60 lbs., while Jane is awakening to her authentic self after ending a long marriage. What these women have in common is that they recognized they needed accountability and guidance so they took the first steps by committing to A Pilgrimage to Self, the sacred journey within. These women continue to move forward with the benefits of personal development and are experiencing the joys of living their own Intentional Lives.

Are you ready to commit and invest in yourself? I hope so because your Intentional Life depends on it! My point, make sure you are living your own Intentional Life...we get one life to live, so make it your BEST life!

If you need help finding your purpose and want more information about my program, PM me to see if it's the right fit for you...if it is, you can get started right away with the first month: masterclasses in Self-Awareness, Goal Setting, Gratitude, and the Design an Intentional Life workbook to discover the life you are meant to live.

Wishing your the quiet and peace of slow thinking!

Until next time...

Lisa

P.S. Learn more about A Pilgrimage to Self at www.lisamcgrath.me