At any given moment you have a choice: Step forward into growth or step backward into safety.

How do you know the difference? You can feel it in your body.

Backward steps disguise themselves as "easy" because they're familiar feel just like they sound: regressing, stifling, or defeating.

Forward steps don't always feel easy, but they do feel enlivening, expansive, and like you're being pulled forward. Plants do this naturally.

This principle applies to small choices like what to eat, say, or do in the moment as well as to bigger choices around career, relationships, and other major decisions.

If you’re serious about feeling alive and having a great life, you want to make sure you're doing more of what brings you more energy, aka life force, and less of what deadens you.

I invite you to take a few minutes to check in with yourself and use the following fun and powerful tool to identify what enlivens you.

Instructions

1. On a blank page, make 2 columns.
2. Label one column “Safe” and the other column “Growth”.
3. Using free thought, list everything that comes into your mind in one of the columns. Include anything you want to about foods, people, places, thoughts, behaviors, activities, etc.
4. Then, at your own pace, begin to do more of what's in the “Growth” column and less of what's in the “Safe” one.

Our lives are determined by the sum of our moment to moment decisions. Next time you’re about to do something, try choosing Growth.