Marlies Cohen Biz Coach

What is it that you are trying to achieve in life?

I picked this quote as a reminder for both of us. I’m what psychologists call an overfunctioner. That means whenever I’m faced with a challenge or I feel unce...rtain or scared, I move faster. I become the fixer. It’s how I’m wired. When the pandemic hit nearly a year ago (holy shit can you believe we’ve been in this that long) - I just started lunging at anything I could do to keep me busy... live streaming every day, launching an online course, Facebook groups, crafting a newsletter, writing a book, redesigning my website And the list goes on and on. I was busy moving in the wrong direction because I didn’t do the one thing that you need to do when you feel stuck or scared about where your life is headed... STOP and THINK. Thankfully my friends Brendon Burchard - Live. Love. Matter., Suzy Batiz, and Carey Lohrenz all gave me some life-changing advice and it all boils down to this: What do you want your life to look like? And here’s the kicker-- you can’t answer that question while you’re running 1,000 miles an hour in a dozen different directions, wearing flip-flops while your pedicure dries. You must slow down. You must stop being afraid. You must dig deep and find the honest answer. What do you want your life to look like? Where do you want to live? What kind of work do you want to do? What kind of problems do you want to solve and what impact do you want to make? What kind of person do you want to be? What are you doing for fun? And who do you spend your time with? Slow down. You have plenty of time. Stop running. Grab a journal, sit your ass down at the kitchen table, and start writing answers to those questions. Answer them again and again every morning until you feel like you’ve slowed down long enough that you have a sense of what direction you should head and next and why. You’ll know because it will feel energizing, expansive, and a little scary. That’s your map. And now that you know where you’re going, you can control the speed at which you travel and the people that you take on this leg of the journey with you. You have the answers within you-- dig deep and find them. That’s step one to unlocking the power inside you to change your own life.

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"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth." ~Marcus Aurelius"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth." ~Marcus Aurelius