The Conscious Principle

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Definition: A person can only truly change, adapt, move forward when they are awake to what they truly want. 

Only once you become awake and aware of what you truly want in life can you make the small steps to move forward. Like a dream, one needs to have an image, a picture or visual to see where that direction is. Imagine the times you had no dreams after a night’s rest. Nothing to reference, nothing to base and compare things to. No guiding star.

Think about this. People all around the world are constantly striving to want and be more than they are. Their situations, although unique to themselves, are the same we’ve heard and seen before. Perhaps someone wants to get out of a career they’ve felt stuck in for years. A person may want to change a bad habit for one that is more fueling and energizing. And another may feel like they want to leave a relationship or situation that isn’t serving them anymore. 

The solution? The solutions are also not unique. They’ve been tried and tested by others in similar situations with varying degrees of success. Not liking your career? Then quit and do something you love. Wanting to quit a bad habit? Change your identity and the behaviours and good habits will follow. Looking to extinguish a relationship that’s not working anymore? Leave and create boundaries for what you’re going to say yes and no to.

These are answers that you already know work. From others in situations like this in the past. 
What’s unique is the ability for the person to ‘wake up’ and adopt the Conscious Principle to finally make that adjustment. And only that person can determine when they want to apply the principle to make a positive change going forward.

Sometimes it’s when something bad has happened in their lives when they truly take time to reevaluate their lives.

Sometimes it happens after some deep thinking, inner work and self reflection over the course of days, weeks, months or more commonly years. 

Sometimes it never happens at all and they stay unconscious for the majority of their lives.
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The Conscious Principle is simple. If you truly want to make a change in your life you first need to be conscious of what’s most important. 

Here are some tips and practical ways I make this work in my life:
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• Find some alone time: shut out the noise of the ‘have tos’ ‘need to’ ‘should’ve’ and ‘could’ves’ in your life and just spend time with yourself. This is the only path towards the Conscious Principle
• Go on a date with yourself: in a real date you would learn more about the other person, understand their wants, desires, motivations, personalities, tendencies, insecurities, passions and love. Do the same with yourself. How much do you truly know yourself? 
• Journal and Reflect: the power of writing allows you to put your thoughts into action. Ask yourself, is this the life I truly wanted to live? What do I really want? Where do I want to go? 
• Be insanely curious: about life, about yourself, about the future, about the world. Being curious allows you to open up the world of possibilities instead of living in a self imposed unconscious world that you may have created for yourself. 

The Conscious Principle works every time. If you want to get better, move forward, learn more about yourself, you first need to apply this principle. I’ve helped many leaders apply this simple principle in their lives. Reach out on how we can help.