My Response to Growth Emails
"So blow my mind, change my heart, help me live more alive and in tune with my core values."
This is the response I have to those emails I get in my inbox that ask me to attend their "free" webinars, trainings or sale-pitches of their life-changing products or coaching seminars.
If we all want transformation and continued growth, wouldn't MORE always be best?
I'm learning that the very opposite, much to my own shagrin, is truer.
I like more and maximizing every little simple thing even if it comes down to my thoughts which equals overthinking and overanalyzing.
My Growth - Minimizing
Minimizing and subtracting from my life and my thoughts has almost always brought needed growth and intentionality. It breaks me away from all the distractions and excess that my head and my heart leans towards.
Minimizing leans me into the Mystery of Myself.
What I have found is that as I lean in, my time and priorities often change and look more like: Listening to the whispers in my soul. Letting go of previous ideals. Scaling back my expectations for how I "should" be using my time. Limiting social media and unsubscribing from email lists. Deleting duplicate photos and screenshots I have saved to help me be more "productive". Doing more with the less that I have. Taking action in practicing what I preach - "less is more" and leaning into God's Biblical Wisdom while also gleaning from the experiences of others. Rediscovering the wild world around us and observing.
Advice from Kelly Rae Roberts
....consider getting reacquainted with yourself. Go somewhere - anywhere - where you feel deeply alive. Maybe it's visiting a city where formative years were spent. Maybe it's visiting with an old friend that knew you when. Maybe it's visiting older journals. Either way, allow this version of yourself to speak to you from where you are now. Allow her to guide your next move while also celebrating all that you created in that previous season of your life. If you need, grieve that previous season/version. And then let the gifts from that season help you pave the next path. Life is magical.
Step deeper into the Mystery.
Trust that you are exactly where you need to be.
Own your story, let your light be a guide for another.
Allow your story and the paths you have traveled to inform and help you remember God's faithfulness.
Share and celebrate your quirks and what makes you "You", because it is a superpower.
Now THAT is Growth.
