Following Your Soul when others want to tell you How to Live...

Everyone always wanted to tell me how to live...
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And I’m sure you get it all the time too.
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Feedback and reactions from people in your life...you know,
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Telling you what’s ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ without even considering what your core values are, what your soul craves, what you define as your BEST life and BEST self...
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The key is remembering that their responses are not a reflection of your capabilities or possibilities...
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...but they ARE a projection of that persons’ experiences, past, beliefs, conditioning, and desire to serve or protect you in your own journey as a result of their own thus far...
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Not only can we choose to hear others and honor others in their desire to help us, but we can also recognize their own beliefs and behavior patterns and choose for ourselves what space WE choose to act from.
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To put it in perspective...(and hopefully inspire you to follow your soul)
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Here are some opinions I heard in my life that I 110% proved wrong and am currently proving wrong as we speak...
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“If you graduate high school early you’ll miss all the fun year end things”
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“You’re not going to prom?! You’ll regret that!!”
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“Why don’t you want to play volleyball anymore? Aren’t you going to wish you kept your college commitment? Won’t you miss it?”
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“Don’t Get too into fitness like these girls *shows pics of super muscled out women*”
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“Doing a competition is so vain, and unhealthy, and selfish!”
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“Why don’t you go to any of the parties or drink or smoke once in awhile? It’s part of the college experience!!”
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“You’re going to school online....oh...”
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“Why are you switching your major now? I thought you wanted to do this?”
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“Don’t invest in a mentor right now, that’s more money than you have! You’ll go into debt!”
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“Writing a book is so hard why would you want to do that, what makes you think you’ll become a best seller?”
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“No one will invest money into online coaching, let alone a premium price, there’s just no one out there with money and the industry is so saturated!”
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“Why would you launch a low price program when you could just sell a few high ticket?”
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“Being featured in podcasts, online shows, online magazines, books, and blogs won’t help you or anyone!”
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“How is launching this podcast going to help your biz anyways? It’s not even your ideal client, is it??”
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“Being on a competition prep team is so bias that you’ll win just for that or other girls will and it’s all politics and you shouldn’t”
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“You dated too much”
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“You shouldn’t have a boyfriend you need to be free”
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“Don’t quit your job for your business”
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“You can’t do what you love AND make the impact you want AND the money, it only happens to like a small portion of the population”
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And the list goes ON!!
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I’d love to hear some of the things you were told you COULD NOT do then DID. Or some things you committed to and saw through despite the odds!
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Comment below, let’s cheer each other on for saying YES to our soul and our goals and allowing NOTHING to stop us!

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