There is a saying that goes, “If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you always got.”  Creation takes dedication and clarity and action as we’ve been discussing so we need to have honest, authentic conversations about our purpose and what we’ve done to create what we are looking for.  We can’t achieve a new goal being the same person. Presence, authenticity, honesty, coupled with action are key—we learn to pivot in the moment.  I read today that, instead of worrying about the future we need to focus and align in the moment because our energy creates the reality and what we focus on is what will manifest so we should focus on joy because when we are inspired, we effortlessly produce the vision.  Creation isn’t about rigid following, it’s about flexible flow to the next step.

Yesterday I spoke about leadership and its role in our personal lives as well as our professional or even social lives so I wanted to talk a bit more about creating the tone for our lives.  Living aimlessly only works for so long, we all need a purpose and in order to have that purpose, we need to know our values as I discussed yesterday.  We need to know who we are, what we are capable of, what feels right, where our talents lie, and what fits with our goals, what behavior aligns.  We need to create a culture, a way of being, that makes sense.  We lead based on the culture we create as that culture becomes the foundation—so culture and ingrained ways of operating are created by the leader.  The leader sets the tone for success through how they handle things.  As discussed yesterday, that is the same for our personal lives as well.  We need a culture, a purpose, a mission, values for how we live every day.  

When we don’t have a foundation or a core set of values to live from, we don’t have a starting ground to create a foundation and we often misinterpret or misunderstand a foundation as a series of thoughts.  It’s more complicated than that. We define our lives through our actions, so belief is great, ideas are even better, but we need to apply them to action.  That is where leadership comes in.  The mind is a creative powerhouse and can take us anywhere which is both amazing and intimidating.  The mind doesn’t know how to focus itself, it knows how to create so we are the mechanism that needs to drive those thoughts consistently, and in order to know that consistent direction, we need to have a rock solid knowledge of who we are.  If we don’t like who we are or where we are, or even if we just want to shift direction, it is up to us to take the reins and move ourselves in a new direction.