Thought Exercise: Challenging Comfort Zones and Embracing Life's Potential

Are you tethered to your comfort zone, mistaking it for true happiness? This episode, hosted by Lisa Hopkins, embarks on a transformative journey, challenging you to confront 'what-if' scenarios that shake the very foundations of our daily lives. We delve into the art of questioning our dependencies and attachments, guiding you to make more enlightened choices that resonate with your values and purpose. It's not about predicting a grim future; it's about awakening to the parts of yourself you may have inadvertently let slip away.

Embark on this enlightening conversation with me as we unearth the lessons learned from life's curveballs, including the global pandemic. Through this dialogue, you're invited to uncover the areas where you might have settled for less and ignite inspiration to infuse your life with more passion, potential, and purpose. Discover the beauty in every circumstance and how to seize the moment, creating a life of fullness and meaning. Join me, and let's explore together how to live authentically and wholly connected to what truly matters.

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Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:24

I want you to take a moment to consider a what-if scenario. It's not meant to be fear inducing. It's really more of a realignment or a tune-up so that we can continue to move forward in connection with our values, our purpose and ourselves. So often we go through life just getting by, going through the motions, without even realizing it. Sometimes we mistake comfort for happiness and stop asking questions, being lulled into believing that no news is good news, or is it so? I have a thought exercise for you today that helps to facilitate understanding what might be holding you back and what you might be holding on to that isn't helping you grow and where you might have some blind spots in your life. I'm going to ask you again to consider what if tomorrow, for whatever reason, something that you take for granted today has changed. Maybe in this hypothetical scenario, you lose your job or your health, or you can't live where you're living anymore, or you lose your partner or they break up with you. What would you do? I know it's not something we like to think about, but I promise you there is great value in this. When we draw awareness around what things we are unknowingly depending on or attached to, we can begin to be more conscious about the choices we make and our way of being. We had a real dose of this with the pandemic, didn't we? It actually offered us a chance to recalibrate and reassess what we were doing in our lives, and many of us really believed we were doing exactly what we wanted to do, seeing who we wanted to see, spending time in the places that we were. Maybe it was the fear of actually catching the virus that put us into that. What would you do today if you knew you were going to die tomorrow? Perspective. But you don't have to wait for one of these things to occur to check in with where you are and how your current lifestyle is contributing to who you want to be in this lifetime. So what would you do differently if any of these kinds of things happened? I mean, obviously you'd take the time to feel the appropriate feelings and move into survival mode as necessary. We're hardwired for that. But I don't want you to think about what you do so much as what you do differently. That's what's interesting. When we play these what if?

Speaker 1: 3:16

Scenarios out, they can be quite revealing. Think about it If you were to lose your job or your partner or your home tomorrow, would you look for another job in the same field? Or maybe there's an entrepreneurial idea you've wanted to start but never had the time because you were so busy managing your current life. Maybe you always wanted to go back to school, but it never seemed to be the right time. If you lost your home, would you look for a house in the same neighborhood, or would you travel and explore, or maybe you'd move in with a friend or a family member.

Speaker 1: 3:53

Listen, there's no judgment here. There are no right or wrong answers to these questions, and I don't mean to imply that there is something better on the other side, although I do believe that there is a gift and opportunity in everything, and the only thing worse than being stuck is not recognizing that you're stuck. This exercise may actually reveal some areas that you've left undeveloped because you've settled. It doesn't mean you have to move on although that is always available to you but rather it shines a light on how you might enrich your current way of being by incorporating more of your passions, your potential and your purpose into your day-to-day lives. After all, it isn't really about losing anything tomorrow. It's about discovering where you might have lost yourself today. I'm Lisa Hopkins. Stay safe and healthy everyone, and remember to live in the moment.