Life audit: an honest look at the results you have versus what you want.  I took this from a speech I heard about self-improvement and it was used in the context of getting from where we are to where we want to be.  The simple way to look at this is evaluating how to close the gap (I have a piece on that further back as well 😊).  The more I thought about it, the more I realized it has a bigger reach and impact than that.  Recent events in the world seem to have made this more of a priority for me.  I don’t like the idea that things need to stay the same, especially if they aren’t working for everyone, and I don’t like the idea that we have to keep doing things a certain way simply because they were done that way before—especially if people are getting hurt.  Any belief that requires hurting someone else because of what they believe needs to be examined further. 

What really made me dive deeper into this idea of auditing where we are at is that, honestly, there are some days it feels like the world is falling apart.  The reality is that the world isn’t falling apart—the systems we knew are falling apart and we don’t know what to do in its place.  We are learning to operate on new ground and it’s intimidating for us all.  We are competitive animals so ridding ourselves of the idea that we need a best idea or that there needs to be a winner is hard to get rid of.  We are all vying to prove our worthiness/claim our power.  In spite of all that, I believe we are fully capable of starting over and making it a new beginning, a blank slate for all.  The answers to anything new don’t come overnight.  They come from understanding our roles, our desires, our talents and our purpose and then learning how that combines with other people.  That’s why it’s SO important to know who we are—I can’t reiterate that enough. 

The whole purpose of the individual life audit is simple: when we do our best and learn to operate at our optimal performance, we spread that light to the world.  We are able to fulfill our purpose easier, we have energy to see things through, we have the capacity to listen and understand people and we are brave enough to bring forward our ideas and humble enough to refine them with others.  Given the climate of the world now, we need people to awaken to this state now more than ever.  We all need to take pause and ask if what we are doing is who we are.  How much of what we do is because we learned it and how much of it is because it’s engrained in us—and we are meant to break the habit (see the post on generational trauma from a few days ago)?  Breaking any habit is hard—spending, eating, drugs, alcohol—but it’s harder to live someone else’s life.  I think that is the biggest source of regret when we go; at the end we realize that we missed out on living our lives because we were living someone else’s.  don’t let that happen.  Wake up, do the work, dig deep and analyze if this is what you want.  The sooner we can fulfill our destiny, the sooner the ideas that work for all can flow. Auditing ourselves is the most selfless thing we can do.