A Beginner’s Guide to Redrawing Your Path | Ep. 013

Redraw Your Path

A Beginner’s Guide to Redrawing Your Path | Ep. 013

It can be scary! To know you need and want to do something else, but feeling like you’re stuck in the choices you’ve made, or your situation.

But, you’re not!

YES, there are many factors. But there are also MANY ways we can redraw our paths and take our happiness into our own hands.

4 Steps to Redrawing Your Path:

➡️ Understand when your body is telling you that something must change.

This might be: constant upset stomach, headaches, rumination, panic attacks, a feeling you just can’t put your finger on.

Every time I’ve redrawn my path, my body has been the first to know.

➡️ Listen for what you’re being called towards.
➡️ Tune in to the feelings in your body.

To do this: meditate, journal, practice breathwork or yoga, build your mental fitness.

Change your scenery.

Create space for yourself. That might be getting out of the country, spending a day at a coffee shop being intentional, or something big like leaving your current job, or going on a 10-day silent retreat. What will help you create the space to listen?

Consulted with friends.

Left my job.

Took time for silence. Napped a lot. Unraveled my identity from my professional title.

Took more space and silence.

Worked with a coach.

And started a journal practice.

➡️ Embrace your new future.

To do this: Visualize yourself on your new paths. Start taking small risks and building your confidence. Those bigger risks will seem more attainable.

Work on your mindset. Start identifying and rewriting your limiting beliefs.

Talk to other people and start to open your mind to what’s possible.

You can actually take any interest, hobby, or passion and make it into a career. Look to others for inspiration, and work on your mental fitness and mindset.

But, don’t feel confident yet? Take risks…

For me, it was improv. Improv helped me to build confidence and to play, just have fun. It helped me to really imagine something else for my life.

➡️ Make a plan to get to your new path.

Vision boards don’t happen by accident! I’ve made the mistake of thinking that putting it together was enough. It’s not!

To do this: Identify the first step, even if it’s a baby step. That will help you build your confidence. And, write down what you need to do to make it happen.

Then, it’s time to get serious: quarterly planning! Think 3 months at a time.

PRIORITIZE. Be realistic but concrete.

Seriously? When I first started quarterly planning, one of my goals was “Have some effing fun.” And I identified the ways I would have fun that quarter. I moved from there to setting business goals for myself, and last year I even set a goal to find a partner and fall in love. Honestly.

I did not do ALL of the things in my goal planning, but by sticking with it, I learned what was realistic and have gotten better every quarter. I’m now on my fourth cycle of quarterly planning (shoutout Ally Bubb and Best Ever), and I’ve built a more consistent business, I’ve prioritized fun, I changed my mindset and built really critical self-care routines, AND I found love!

Redrawing your path will not JUST HAPPEN MIRACULOUSLY. You must be intentional, be willing to take risks, have faith, and be willing to learn through the journey. You’ve got this!

Connect with Lynn:

• www.redrawyourpath.com
• www.lynndebilzen.com
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/lynndebilzen/