Why you should stop surviving, NOW
Photo by Michael Matlon
Hello again, my love.
I hate to use such cliche words today, but I am totally going to.
We have to stop surviving… and start thriving.
It is imperative for us, as a collective, to get started on this internal emotional work.
Here’s why: people stuck in survival mode are no good at helping other people stuck in survival mode. They aren’t productive. They aren’t adding value. And they end up causing more harm than good when they try to be helpful.
The people who are thriving, are actually quite helpful to other people. They have the time, energy, resources and wisdom to be helpful. They have solutions as opposed to more problems.
When people believe they don’t have the time to figure out how to thrive because they are too busy trying to survive, they are actually lying to themselves in one of two ways.
They are either wearing their emotional suffering as a badge of honor to feel proud of or they’re thinking that emotional suffering is just a fact of life and there are no other options.
There are other options, guys.
But in order to see them we have to stop lying to ourselves.
Being stuck in survival mode is not something to be proud of or something that can’t be changed, it’s simply a result of our past thinking patterns.
And there is a process that WORKS at changing our current thinking patterns and creating a new way of living.
It’s called the self coaching model and it’s the first thing I teach all of my clients.
This exact process is what takes us out of survival mode, once and for all, and into a more desirable life.
Are you over survival mode?
I know I was. The desire to create a life I actually loved was there. And that’s all that’s required in order to start this journey.
Now I wake up every single day and feel excited that this is my life. I actually want the life I have, right now. I’m truly enjoying my day to day, being present in every single moment, even the uncomfortable ones. I’m not trying to escape from where I currently am or desperately trying to change my circumstances, anymore.
I know that I have what I need at all times.
So, I completely understand what it means to thrive now.
I’m the living proof.
Now it’s time for everyone else to join me here. It’s time for us all to be productive, helpful, solution oriented humans.
Because if we aren’t the ones who will do it… who really will?
Ellicia
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I’ll see you there!
