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Escaping the Prison of Corporate Life

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I feel like I’ve finally recaptured my direction after several months of floundering . And I did not have this inspiration on my own, but rather with my “Core” coach, Shyla Nelson. She challenges her clients to “Live from the Core” and I asked her what that meant, because that directive certainly is deeper than simply living your passion or your dream (which I have already been doing for the last 17 months when I retired from corporate life).

With Shyla’s help I conclude (in my overly-simplistic definition) that living from one’s core means to align your passion WHILE at the same time focusing your energies on those people that most directly are impacted by one’s own personal story, i.e., CORE=PASSION+STORY or “Living from your CORE=alignment of your Passion and your Story.”

My story, as many of you may know, centers around my fear of 40 years: how am I going to continue to live the life that a 6-figure corporate income brought me? Within a week of being introduced to a mentor/coach I was able to overcome that fear and the rest is history: I’ve been living from my heart and my passion ever since.

So how did I overcome that 40-year fear in a just a week’s time? To keep it simple: I changed the way that I thought about the problem. The problem did not change. The situation in which I found myself did not change. I did not suddenly have solutions to the fears that had accompanied me for all my adult life. I simply changed the way that I thought about the problem. I switched my perspective from needing to have all the answers to one of confidence that I would be able to deal with whatever issues came up. And where did this new-found confidence come from? That’s a discussion for another day.