These inner feelings and higher thoughts will often conflict with the wants of your personality, your ego. Your personality is concerned with being, doing, and having what society tells it to be, to do, and to have. Choosing to listen to and trust your own inner voice above all the racketing, demanding, power hungry, well intentioned, we-know-what’s-best-for-you, we-know-what’s-right-and-what’s-wrong voices of others--your family, your friends, your partners, your culture, your religion, and your society…is what it means to live authentically. It’s not easy, but the reward is this: when you’ve cleared away the rubble, you’ll find a treasure box. The box contains clarity, it contains commitment, it contains empowerment; it contains healing balms for old pains, and it contains cures for outdated habits; it contains excitement, it contains passion, and it contains confidence; it contains the phone numbers of your guides and teachers, it contains the addresses of your next adventures, and it contains a compass to your life purpose. The box is located in your heart and the key that opens it is choice.

Are you willing to give up the reality of the world around you and create your own? That is the path to delicious, free, blissful authenticity. Authenticity is a path that starts out rough but it flows downhill. The more you align yourself with your Soul’s purpose by allowing yourself to follow your bliss no matter what it is and no matter how often it changes, the more you’ll attract others, and impact others, to do the same. You’ll quickly find yourself delighting in this life of yours, for it will be rich with joy, harmony, health, abundance, freedom, and fulfillment. Fellow joy traveler, I look forward to meeting you on the road!

Excerpted and adapted from the author’s latest book,

Delighting the Soul: Lessons on Life Purpose, Authenticity and the Law of Attraction

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