One of our favourite things to do when traveling is rent an Airbnb. Whether it’s two of us, or 6 of us, we love that feeling you get when you’re living like a local. We’ve compiled our favourite Airbnbs that are available during our #RadLivin event in Sydney on the 20th of Feb. 300 rad people are coming in from all over to experience the day and connect with other dream-followers. We hope to see you there!
This post was written by life coach, blogger and writer Chloe from One Infinite Life. A week ago Vienda Maria did a video interview with me to talk about our upcoming festival, #RadLivin. In the video I spoked about how one of the key steps I’ve used to manifest my dreams is gratitude. Seeing as Chloe’s speciality is in gratitude, she’s the founder of The 28 Day Gratitude Project, she hopped onto the blog today to give you insightful tips on how to hone in on gratitude to amp up your dreams and magnetize them towards you even quicker. Take it away Chloe…
Over a decade ago now, I started practicing gratitude (with a rock!) and ever since, I’ve discovered how gratitude can truly make you feel like what you have right now is enough. I’ve also witnessed, in both myself and others, how appreciating what you have can make you feel happier, more positive and more optimistic.
Ultimately for me, I continue to practice gratitude because of this:
Through my experience of practicing gratitude, I’ve discovered that it can help you love what you’re doing (and where you’re at) right now, but it’s also useful for helping to move towards more.
So, you can actually use gratitude to help you achieve your dreams. Doing this is seriously some powerful stuff!
Here’s 5 ways you can use gratitude to really AMP UP the pursuit of your dreams and magnetize them towards you:
1. To appreciate where you are right now.
Start with using gratitude to cultivate appreciation for where you are right now, no matter how far away from your dreams you might be.
As Melody Beattie said, “Gratitude turns what we have into enough and more.” Doing this will make you happy with where you’re at right now, no matter where that is.
I truly believe that there is always something to be grateful for. You can use this as an opportunity to appreciate all the things you have in your life that you’re grateful for, more specifically, where you’re at in relation to your dreams.
For example:
If your dream is to run your own Mexican Food Truck (first call me because I’d be your best customer!) You might start off by cultivating gratitude because you have an amazing vision for what you want your business and life to look like. Your friends always ask you to make your secret guacamole recipe when you get together, you already own a tortilla press that you could use and you already have a job where you get to cook Mexican-Inspired food etc.
Or if you’re working a job you don’t absolutely love to support your dreams, you might start by cultivating massive amounts of gratitude for the resources that it’s providing you for your dreams.
Cultivating gratitude for where you are right now will help you to be okay with where you’re presently at. But, it’s totally okay to appreciate what you have now AND still want to work towards more.
2. To call in what you want more of.
Esther Jno-Charles said, “What you focus on expands. So focus on what you want, not what you do not want.” You can use gratitude to focus on what you want more of in your life in relation to your dreams.
Once you’re clear on what your dream is, you can cultivate some mega appreciation for how parts of your big dream are already present in your life.
For example:
If your dream is to go on an epic overseas adventure to explore the Amalfi coast, you might focus on cultivating gratitude for the exploration and adventure you already have in your life. Such as, appreciating when you spend the day at a beach you’ve never been to before, or when you explore your local area, or when you go on a micro-adventure, or when you discover a new hiking trail, etc.
You can use gratitude to help you focus on, and invite in more of, what it is you really want.
3. To propel you into taking action.
Taking action is so crucial to pursuing your dream and making it happen. Gratitude can be really useful in motivating you into take steps towards it.
When you have an action you need to take to move you forward and you’re feeling unmotivated to do it, you can ask yourself: Why will I be grateful I did this? Use your response (your why) as rocket fuel to help you get it done.
This can be useful for getting something relatively simple done (like finally completing your passport application) and even more so if the action you need to take is filled with fear.
For Example:
If you want to start a blog, but are really feeling the fear in regards to putting it live, asking yourself why you will be grateful after you’ve done it can help you to get it out there.
I’ve found that this future-tripping gratitude exercise has given me the courage and motivation I’ve needed to take action and do things I was really afraid to do.
Often when there is something that we would love to do, we wait. We come up with reasons why we can’t do it now and whether we’re aware of it or not, our excuses usually come from fear.
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This post was written by one of our inspiring #RadLivin speakers, Connie Chapman, and was originally featured over on her lovely site conniechapman.com. Hear her speak + meet her in person on 20 Feb 2016 at #RadLivin.
Recently, while cleaning out an old hard drive full of files, documents and folders, I discovered that on it lay the beginnings of dozens of beautiful, creative, heart-driven projects and ideas.
There were 2 ebooks, several ecourses, workshop outlines and many other ideas of projects I wanted to create.
All of them were just sitting there in the beginning brainstorm stages.
All of them in draft mode.
All of them born under a rush of passion, inspiration and love, but then abandoned and never given a chance to be seen by the world.
I felt my heart become heavy with sadness as I realised the extent to which I had been sabotaging my own creativity.
Creativity is a process of bringing what you feel within, out.
You give it life.
You honour it enough to give your energy to it and use that energy to give it shape.
Giving birth to a creative idea is a practise of self-love.
A practise of showing deep respect for what is arising within.
A conscious honouring of what you feel.
A willingness to stop whatever you are doing so you can pay full attention to the inner sensation stirring within you.
As I reviewed the projects on my hard drive, I could feel the passion, excitement and deep love that sat behind each of them. Each was born out of a divine moment of inspiration.
But to bring them to life, these ideas needed more from me than that.
They needed my love, my attention and care.
They need me to tend to them.
To make time for them.
To act on them.
But what do I typically do instead?
I close the computer and go about my day, busying myself with things that my mind has decided are way more important than the birth of this precious creative idea.
I listen to that sneaky sabotaging voice in my head. It tempts me with easier tasks, busies me with my to do list, and pulls me further and further away from my true soul purpose.
And so this has got me thinking about what it takes to bring a creative idea to life – the process of conception to completion.
The boundaries are not real.
The reason you’re saying no.
You have to think bigger,
your dreams depend on you doing so.
The walls you’ve put up,
the excuses you won’t leave behind,
the fear of the unknown keeps your thoughts in a bind.
Look a little deeper.
Ask a few more questions.
Learn to get out of your own way
and create your own intentions.
The opportunities are everywhere
not just the ones that aren’t here.
Let go of what you think you need to do
and let go of the fear.
We choose things that are not us
because at least we know the outcome.
Why are we so afraid to take the leap
and see what greatness we can become.
You didn’t come here to be stuck.
You didn’t come here to not be happy.
You came here to live out your truth
even if you don’t know what it is yet exactly.
Don’t waist your time on being stuck
when there are options other than ones of fear.
Step back and look from far away
and you’ll see the answers were always here.
