Last week, I wrote about the changes coming to my business as I pivot (again…this is a year for pivots) back to coaching with a focus on helping my clients live a life of joy and ease. This week, I want to talk about why inner peace feels impossible to achieve.
(Spoiler: It isn’t; it just feels that way.)
Inner peace? Really?
Yes, I’m really going to talk about inner peace. I’m into the woo, so there it is.
One of the reasons I’ve pivoted several times this year in terms of my business is because I was focusing on things that felt disruptive, chaotic, and too much like “hustle”. I over-complicated how I wanted to work and who I wanted to work with. I ignored my two highest values — joy and ease — as I tried to force square pegs in round holes.
I got in my own way, which turned my inner world into one of struggle rather than one of contentment.
(By the way, that’s how I define inner peace: contentment. The woo can be understood in real terms.)
I bet you do the same thing to yourself. Whether you also have your own business, or you’re actively employed in the corporate world and immersed in your work, you probably get in your own way more often than not. You push yourself to live a Type A existence when you really lean towards Type B and your heart is begging you to slow down.
You have no inner peace and it’s killing you.
Taking the “im” out of “impossible”
If you can’t remember the last time you felt content with your life or your work, you’re in the struggle and stuck zone. Nothing feels like fun anymore, right?
It doesn’t have to be this way. You can actually achieve inner peace and experience joy and ease, even when you’re in the middle of hard work, even when you have deadlines to meet.
We’re all meant to live lives filled with joy and ease. Life is supposed to be fun. We go wrong when we fall into the belief that taking it easy is bad and work is supposed to be hard.
Inner peace is not impossible. In fact, it’s the most possible thing there is if you do one simple thing.
Choose it.
You can make the impossible possible by choosing a different perspective. You have that power.
Inner peace is easy to achieve when you see it that way.
With joy and ease
Inner peace, defined as contentment by me, can feel impossible to achieve in today’s world where “hustle” is rewarded. And yet, nothing could be further from the truth. The minute you get out of your own way, joy and ease slide into your reality, bringing inner peace with them. All you have to do is choose.
Isn’t it time you chose inner peace for yourself?
If you’re tired of struggling and want support to make inner peace possible for you, drop me a note at hilaryclarkstudios@gmail.com and we’ll set up time to chat.
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