Live Lights On!

To manifest the life you want or to create any experience you want requires that you set your clear intention before you begin.  There is a formula to follow for getting what you want and manifesting your dream.  It involves using all the tools you have learned on your Clarity journey:  Intention + Attention + Action + Release the Outcome = Manifestation of Your Vision.

Intention: You set your intention having a clear, lights-on vision for what you want.  You write down your vision, stating fully what you want—not what you don’t want.  It is also important to have a visual representation of your vision to remind you often of what you want: vision maps, lists of lights-on clues, and bridge plans are all part of setting your intention.

Attention:  You focus your attention on creating your vision.  What you focus on expands, gaining more and more of your attention, so you need to focus only on what you want. Allow yourself time to visualize often what you want to create. Using rapid discovery and rapid recovery will help you keep your attention on what you are creating.

Action: You step directly into action that is aligned with your vision, following the lights-on action steps on your bridge plan.  The action steps must energize you, so that your experience as an energy detective will help you discern which action steps to take yourself and which ones to delegate to others.  Watch for clues: Is there effort involved in what you’re doing, or does it flow easily? High noticing and observing resistance will serve you well here.

Release the outcome: Putting all your energy into forcing the results you want will keep you from seeing a better version of your dream if that’s what appears. Practice the mantra: “I was clear about my intention, and what showed up is perfect”—whatever it is.

It’s always helpful to use a map or a guide to help you reach your destination.  As with any long journey you undertake, it helps to know what’s up ahead and around the curve.  The same is true for any life journey.

One of the cool things about following a map is that someone has been there before you to highlight the places you will visit on your journey; helping you to understand not only the challenges but also the places that will provide the wisdom to help you move with more flow.  Knowing what’s around the bend and what you need to do to prepare, deepens your power and purpose.

To assist our clients on their journey to a life of peak experiences, we provide the Get Clarity Journey Map.  You can review the map here – http://www.getclarity.com/clarity_books_dvds/get-clarity-journey-map/

The Get Clarity Journey Map reflects the universal journey towards living a life of peak experiences. Each place on the map provides a critical piece of knowledge or place to focus so you can continue the journey with self reflection, self awareness and an improved sense of direction.

Some of the places on your journey to a vibrant life of peak experiences will include:

Dreaming – Your enthusiasm for what you are beginning will generate the vital energy that will propel you to the next step of your journey. When you allow yourself to dream, and to be truly open to the possibilities for your life, you create a flow of energy throughout your body.

Living in Distinction – Focusing on doing more of what you love and less of what you don’t love.

Sacred Selfishness – To function fully and effectively, you must serve yourself, and your vision, before serving others. Cultivating sacred selfishness is an important part of learning how to hold your own energy field and preserve your vitality.

Choosing Intention – When you are intentional in your thoughts, words, and actions, you send out energy that will attract to you the people, situations, and material support that you need to reach your goal.

Navigating Choice Points – Our choices create our current reality.  Throughout you life journey these choice points require focused attention.

Dealing with Doubt & Worry – Make sure you are looking at all the information through the filter of your vision so that you are always giving it an energetic perspective.

Learning from Recurring Patterns – Recognizing the patterns of thoughts and actions that no longer serve you and releasing them.

Focus every day on taking aligned, lights-on action steps toward your vision.

Obviously, achieving an expansive vision requires action.  It is important to remain observant and intentional with the work you do each day.  Be aware and ask: Does this action energize me, enliven me?  Is it an activity that will keep me in flow toward what I want?

With so much going on in your life you can easily get side-tracked and delayed by busy work.  It is important that you create space every day devoted to the next appropriate step forward.

There are likely many action steps that are needed to achieve your vision.  Some of them may not be lights-on for you.  They may need to be done but do they need to be done by you?  So many passionate journeys are derailed when the traveler tries to do everything whether they like the work or not.  Find someone who loves doing the work and let them take care of that for you.  “I will do it even if it kills me.” is not a lights-on approach to aligned action.

If the activity needs to be done and can only be done by you – and it drains your energy – you must find a way to do it or a perspective about it that brings you energy.  How can you make it fun or at least do it with neutral energy?

Aligned action steps are energizing and enlivening.  They continue to foster energy and flow and keep you moving in a lively manner to achieve your vision.

Shift your focus and behaviors to having lights-on energy in all that you do.

Living lights-on requires living consciously with self awareness.  You need to be able to ask the questions – Am I lights-on in this situation or with this activity or with this person?  Does it energize me or drain me? If it drains my energy, what’s my strategy to change that?

We all have duties, responsibilities and challenges in our lives that can drain our energy.  Lights-on living requires that we don’t unconsciously slip into a pattern of accepting this energy drain.  In any situation, we continually focus on shifting our energy.  That requires being an objective observer of our own life.

Be an energy detective. Take a 24-hour period, and be aware and observant throughout the day. Gather clues by noting which interactions energize you, and which ones drain you. Pay very close attention to your energy. Ask two questions during every interaction and action:  Am I more alive, more energized, more lights-on?  Am I duller, more drained, more lights-off?

At the end of the 24 hours, make a list of your interactions and actions during that time. Rate them on a scale of 1 to 10 (really lights-off to really lights-on)

Go into action by doing more of the lights-on items on your list. Doing what lights you up will naturally point you in the direction of your vision.

Every journey is best guided by having a clear vision for what you want to create.  In our work we meet people who have reached a stage of success in their life and are looking for a new vision, a new passion. Others have a vision they are passionate about and yet somehow seem to lose focus on making it happen. And, there are others who feel like they don’t have a clue what they want.

Developing a vision for your life doesn’t have to be complicated.  It is merely imagining the ideal work and the ideal life you want.  It does require taking time for self reflection and contemplation.  What lights you up?  What relationships energize you?  If you could design you ideal day (and we believe you can) what would you be doing from the time you awaken until you sleep?

Start dreaming.  To create a vision for your life that is driven by passionate energy, you have to exercise your right brain.  Dreaming works from the right hemisphere. While the left brain is linear in processing information, the right brain is holistic. It sees the big picture; the left brain handles the details. The right brain is visual, dealing in images. Its mode of knowing is intuitive, while the logical left brain sticks to the facts. Allowing yourself to dream, to imagine, and to be fully open to your intuition gives your right brain full rein to do its work.

A clear vision of any aspect of our lives is nothing more than a collection of what we call lights-on clues of what energizes us.  Begin to pay attention to all of the lights-on thoughts, activities and relationships that appear.  Keep a list of these clues and they will begin to form a clear vision for all aspects of your life.  These clues are like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle that when assembled help us form the bigger, more expansive picture of our vision.

So, dream big and let your most expansive vision guide you.

We sometimes conclude our presentations and workshops with a summary that plays on our name – Clarity.  To live an energetic life of passion and purpose and peak experiences requires bringing CLARITY into your daily life.

C – Clear Vision – Every journey is best guided by having an enlivening vision for what you want to create.
L – Live Lights-On – It’s critical that you are always aware of your energy and do whatever is needed to shift your focus and behaviors to having lights- on energy in all that you do.
A – Aligned Action – Focus every day on taking aligned, lights-on action steps toward your vision.  Remain conscious to avoid doing busy work that drains your energy.
R – River Map/River Guide – Your journey is best served if you follow a map or a guide to help you negotiate the difficult places, avoid the dangers, keep you pointed in the right direction and in the flow.
I – Intention – To manifest the life you want or to create any experience you want requires that you set your clear intention before you begin.
T – Thoughts – Your thoughts create your reality; when you stay aware of and shift your thoughts effectively you create the life you want.
Y – Yes – Say yes to living a full vibrant life; say yes to the field of all possibilities; give yourself permission to live every day with vitality, purpose and passion.

We will explore each of these over the coming blogs and we invite your input and your comments.