2023.11 Lead Author Part 1

Because business is personal. This newsletter is dedicated to your own alignment journey.

Your lived reality is really your perception of your life. This is just as true for the person you speak with next. Embracing this through your awareness, actions, and speech changes almost everything.

Hi ! 👋

Last week we discussed the ripple effect of choice and the impact it has on the internal feeling of safety. In reading that newsletter, you have a much deeper understanding of the true extent to which the choices you make every moment of every day impact your life — because your lived reality is your perception and your perception is anchored in your choices. This is true for each of us. Even when we don’t realize we’re choosing, we are making choices. And the biggest choices that seem to trip us up on occasion are the ones we make in response to fear, overwhelm, or the perceived lack of control — hence last week’s newsletter discusses choice in regards to feeling safe. This way you can avoid making choices trip you up and instead make choices that empower you to be the “lead author” of your life.

This newsletter is builds from where we landed last week. I asked, “what is something that you can choose to respond to, speak about, or relate to in a different way — one that more aligns with you as the lead author of your story?

How does the concept of being the lead author relate to alignment both personally and professionally? Cultivating alignment doesn’t just deepen impact and results, it deepens connection — connection to yourself and others. And while impact and results are F-A-N-T-A-S-T-I-C, deepening connection with yourself transforms the way you show up in any space, personally or professionally. This is why this newsletter is dedicated to a person’s alignment regardless of professional context — because business is personal: you as a person are showing up at the office, at home, with family, out with friends, at conferences, etc.

Growing recognition of your capacity to choose changes the way you show up both personally and professionally. It changes the way you respond, think, speak, and relate to yourself, others, systems, concepts, and the world. The more you deepen connection with yourself, the more you show up as the lead author of your life.

Here’s what the shift to showing up as “the lead author of the story” looked like for me:

When I more fully recognized my capacity of choice, I stopped perceiving life as happening “to me”. More and more, I perceived life as happening “for me”. As I continued growing my recognition of & practicing my full capacity to choose, I then stopping thinking in terms of life happening “for me”. Instead, I shifted my perception to thinking in terms of life happening “through me”, as the lead author of my story.

So no matter where you are on this “perception spectrum” at any given moment — perceiving life as happening to you, happening for you, or happening through you — just know you can shift as you grow your recognition of & practice your full capacity to choose.

As you practice alignment, deepening connection with yourself and others, shifting your perception of life becomes easier and easier.

Shifting your mindset to viewing life as happening "through you" can be empowering and transformative. It was for me and it continues to be to this day. And the results and impact from this shift continue to be F-A-N-T-A-S-T-I-C both personally and professionally.

So impactful that we will be exploring this shift to lead author next week, including:

• What it really means to be “lead author”

• Who your “co-authors” are

• What it looks like when you’re living and working this way

• How it impacts you and those around you

• What it results in

So reflect on your perception of life over the next week:

• On this perception spectrum, how do you perceive life? Does it happen to you, for you, or through you?

• Do you perceive life differently in different dimensions of your life: professional, family, social, health, financial, romantic, etc?

• What is your intention going forward regarding your perception of life?

Until we meet again,Rachel

P.S. I welcome any thoughts you’d like to share — I read them all, always. Just click reply. 👍

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