Living an Inspired Life

While living an inspired life can evoke images of the divine, it is actually more down to earth and attainable than it sounds. Living an inspired life is about aligning your actions, core values, and passions. Core values are the values that drive you. This is not the values that “should” drive you, but what actually drives you. Knowing your core values and embracing them without shame allows you to embrace what truly inspires you, and whatever it is – as long as it is the truth – is 100% ok. Some people are motivated by having a lot of sex, others by building a community, and some by family. Sex, family, and community are all types of intimacy. They are all different forms of intimacy, but they all involve connecting with people. Some are motivated by money, notoriety, or health. These are all types of stability. Looking at what motivates you and then breaking that down into what it means to you and what you are truly trying to achieve will provide you with your driving core value and open up a variety of ways to achieve the desired outcome, making it easier to craft an inspired life. Total honesty is an essential part of the process.

Once you have your core value, you have your why. Your core value is the answer to why you do what you do. If you look at your actions, and they do not serve the purpose of achieving your core principle, this needs investigation. Ask yourself; why are you engaging in actions that do not serve your core principle? Is there something you value more? What might be missing? This requires shameless exploration of your true desires to understand what you truly value. It is only when we are completely honest with ourselves that you can achieve living an inspired life. You must first know what your core value is before you can align your actions with your truth. This may take time, and you may need to experiment and try on different values to find what your guiding core value is. During your experimental process, you may discover that you have multiple core values that at first look don’t seem to align. If this is the case, ask yourself which value is the strongest. Over time, one will prevail, or you will discover the connective tissue between your values that allows you to bring them into alignment.

Living an inspired life is not the same as living an ideal life. The difference is that an ideal life does not need to touch reality and an inspired life does. An inspired life requires actions that we can take. In the “ideal”, we do not have to think about the reality of enacting the changes necessary to achieve the ideal. In an ideal world, we do not have to navigate around the actions of others. We can be entirely desire focused and do not need to engage with our principles or core values. In an inspired life, our core values create a guiding light through which to see all of our actions. Once we have our guiding light, we can audit our actions and bring our life into alignment with our core value.  Looking at our daily actions across seven days and asking ourselves which of our actions moved us closer to alignment with our core value and which actions moved us away provides a road map for change. We can use this road map to curate our lives by starting the process of editing out and changing behaviors that don’t align. We control what percentage of our actions and life are going to be dedicated to achieving our core value. The higher the percentage, the more inspired you will feel.