We are starved for human connection, but we don’t realize how badly our acceptance of its convincing substitutes are affecting our fulfillment.
There is a great fishing analogy in this one.
In this episode we focus on the pre-requisite for bring back better quality of true lasting and growing human connection. The connection that has to be strongest first is the one you have with yourself. The challenge is to ask yourself the following questions and write down your honest answers at this point in time, so you can lay the groundwork for all your other relationships. Don’t be passive and casual with your curiosity. Actually think about the questions and answer them, or you are just consuming more information, and doing nothing with it.
List included below for convenience and quick reference.
How connected am I to myself?
How do I feel about my life right now?
How do I feel about what is possible for me or what I am capable of?
What do I spend most of my time thinking about?
What do I spend most of my time doing?
What do I say when I talk to myself? and How is that helping me?
What do I believe about my best self?
How do I spend most of my time feeling?
How do I feel about myself?
(What do I like, or what do I wish was different?)
Do I know what I want most for myself?
Do I know why I want that?
Do I feel guilty or selfish even asking that question?
What am I doing that lines up with that desire?
Am I doing it for the right reasons, and do I enjoy doing it?
What is the simplest, easiest, thing I can do before tomorrow, to get even the tiniest bit of progress in better understanding myself, trusting myself, caring for and showing more appreciation for myself?
Do I believe that I have to know myself better, and love and care for myself now, or is that something for another day after I have taken care of everything and everyone else well enough?
Does that show up in my thoughts, words, and actions every day?
Does my life feel like a life of obligation and duty to others, or am I conciously choosing my own expectations and deciding what commitments I want to make?
Do I feel any fear, hesitancy, discomfort, or pride that keeps me from spending time connecting with others in any category?
Do I know what or who is holding me back?
Have I considered how changing myself would help?
Do I feel limited by my circumstances or others’ thoughts about me?
Do I believe better possibilities, options, and scenarios, may exist that I have not yet discovered?
What one thing do I want to change most in my life?
What is the smallest thing I could do today, that would have the biggest impact on that?
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