How to design a More Mindful Life
After years of intentionally approaching my life in order to design the life I want to live, I’ve identified three distinct steps that make up the core framework behind More Mindful Life:
1. Know yourself
Most of us have never stopped long enough to ask who we actually are beneath the noise. This is where it starts — through journalling, reflection, understanding your values, and learning to distinguish your own voice from everyone else's.
2. Know what you want
Not what you think you should want. Not what looks good from the outside. What you actually want out of your one life. Maybe you think you want a business that makes a million dollars a year — but do you want the stress that comes with it? Maybe a simpler life, with more time and less pressure, fits you better. This step is about getting honest with yourself.
3. Live in alignment with 1 and 2
This is where it gets practical. Once you know who you are and what you want, you can start using the frameworks, practices and systems that bring that life into reality. Things like life balance wheels, daily practices, intentional planning close the gap between the life you're living and the life you want.
The foundational practice of reclaiming your attention
Underpinning all three steps is what I consider to be the foundational practice. Without it, the steps become extremely hard, if not impossible, to implement.
If you are constantly distracted and not creating the time and space for yourself, you will not be able to know who you are or what you want because you become a blend of what you’re told to have, do and be.
The practice is reclaiming your attention: getting intentional about what you let in, so you can start to hear your own voice again.
It won’t be perfect, but it will be possible
The path to living a life true to you is not always easy — there’s a lot of things trying to make you serve their goals. Companies want you buying their products so they can sell more products. Social media wants you scrolling so they can sell more ads.
It takes courage to say yes to your life. This is where that starts.
