The following 5 things should help both of us get off our own sidelines and start playing our game of life!

The following 5 things should help both of us get off our own sidelines and start playing our game of life! 1. Feed the soul not the Ego! We have to make sure we’re living a life based on Authentic Intention and not one led by the Ego. This is much easier said than done and it can and mostly will be a daily struggle. However, consider your intention for what you’re wanting to do. Is your intention for “getting in the game” one that will make you feel better? Is it one that you’re doing to feel accepted and to get the attention you feel you deserve and need? Are you looking for power? Control? Do you want to impress others? You have to be real honest here or your answer can skew your process. Make sure your intention for “getting in the game” is one based on serving others. Make sure that it will be something that allows you to express your creativity, compassion, intelligence, connectedness, and strength. These are all inherent qualities you were born with. When we align to our inherent qualities the Universe opens up to give us everything we could possibly want and need. 2. Make a list of the goals you need to accomplish to get in the game! I’m not as goal focused as some as I’m more concerned about intention. Yet, we all know before you can make a touchdown you’re probably going to have to make many first downs! Break the larger goals down into more manageable ones that you can accomplish on a monthly or weekly basis. The important thing is to ensure that you can see the progress. You don’t want to set a goal that won’t allow you to see weekly or even daily results. We need to be able to see that we’re running in the right direction or we’ll be likely to give up. 3. Surrender to the outcome! That’s right, once you’ve set your goals we’re now going to forget about them! Well, that’s not totally true. The point is we want to focus on our Authentic Intention. We have a list of goals and we know with relative certainty that if we achieve these goals we’ll get where want to be. The truth is, we have know idea what the Universe has in store for us. Often times we can’t dream as big as the Universe can for us. In other words, be open to the course changing on you along the way. If you’re aligning yourself to your Authentic Self you’ll never steer wrong. You may just be opening up that playing field of life and allow yourself more opportunities than you otherwise would have known about. Be creative, intelligent, creative, passionate, thoughtful, and strong. Your inherent nature will guide you and that is what you want navigating you at the core. 4. Surround yourself with others that will support you in your mission. If you’re around people full of their own self doubt and pessimism then how are you going to be able to achieve such a big mission? We can’t do this alone nor should we be expected to! We need people to support us and provide us with the emotional and intellectual guidance we need! Just as in football we all need to count on others for support. We can’t do this alone and that is the first mistake we often make. Finding support doesn’t mean you’re weak, it means you’re connected, strong, communicative, trustworthy, and vulnerable. Those are all inherent qualities you possess and aligning to them means you’re on the right track. It’s very hard if not impossible to fully express the Authentic You when others are excluded from the picture. Find others that can see the real you and that will support the real you, fear aside! 5. The one thing that is going to stop us is our own fear. After all, the reason we’ve been sitting on the sidelines of our own life so long is because of fear. It’s a big, ugly, and mean Monster. The good news is that’s actually just our own perception. We create fear so there’s no way that what we create can be bigger than us! At some point you’re going to need to get to the bottom of that fear but you can’t do that until you know you are not your fear. Yes, you “FEEL” fear which means that you are NOT fear. It’s simply a feeling we experience and does not define who you are. Visualize fear as being this small ball, perhaps even the size of a football. See how it’s contained in it’s leather encasing? That’s right…it’s not this infinite power it once used to be. It’s something you can pick up and carry around. The next time fear pops us and you mistaken it for something you’re made of or for something so big you can’t even see where it begins and/or ends remind yourself of the truth. The truth that fear is real and needs to be dealt with but that it’s something you’re carrying around. Just like a football, you may need to keep it with you to get to that touchdown but it’s small and you’re carrying it – not the other way around.