If life presented you with a challenge today—job loss, divorce, illness, business failure, loss/upset of any kind—how would you fare? 

Would the other areas of your life serve as life-rafts and comforters, or would they exacerbate the challenge?

As a coach, teacher, and writer, I’ve devoted over a decade to personal improvement and women’s empowerment. This continuous focus, combined with my commitment to be genuine and practice what I teach, has resulted in my own solid, secure, and well-developed life. 

As I face the soul-wrenching challenge of my mother’s illness, I see how the years of consistent attention and effort I’ve invested into my life are returning to me. 

My family is strong and provides me tremendous support and solace. I love my work, and it makes me feel peaceful, loving, strong, and alive, to do it. Professionally, my relationships are solid, genuine, and trust-based. My friends are light-workers who shower me with grace. My body is strong and willing to carry me through the demands of each day. My boyfriend is a conduit of Divine love—always supportive, stabilizing, protective, and optimistic. Spiritually, I am whole, connected, and in constant conscious union with the oneness of us all. 

The last time my world was flipped on its end, my life wasn’t like this. I felt lost, swirling in a wayward storm of unruly and unkind energies. My work was unfulfilling, fair-weather friends abandoned me, I was pissed off at God, and lived in fear. I was much younger and had yet to take ownership of my role as the most powerful person in my life.

Having lived both experiences, I understand the urgency and importance of tending to all areas of life while the weather is calm—and even if it isn’t.

I want this for you.

Now, don’t get me wrong. I’m not promoting that you tend to all of the structures of your life solely in preparation for a rainy day. NO.

May every day of your life be blessed with grace and ease. I want you to live the wonders and glories of a well-tended life and, should a challenge arise, you’ll be held and supported by its bounty.

Where do you start?

Fifteen years ago, I sat with a life coach who put the image above in front of me. She told me to rank my level of satisfaction in each area of my life by placing a number from 1 to 10 (10 being very satisfied and 1 being very unsatisfied) in each area. 

I was fairly satisfied in just three areas of life and deeply unsatisfied with the rest. Seeing this simple measure of my life satisfaction in front of me played a large part in me realizing just how out of balance my life was. 

(I’ve still never achieved balance in all areas at once, and I don’t think it’s necessary, or even possible. I believe that overall balance, measured by the decade is more reasonable.)

I began taking one day each month (about 3 hours at a time) to get really clear about what I wanted to improve in each life area,and coming up with action steps to create improvement.

I became an avid learner—devouring anything that might teach me how I could manifest lasting goodness. I stopped watching television and became hyper-conscious of how I invested my time. 

In two short years, every area of my life was more positive. In ten years, I rested in a healthy and lush garden of abundant good.

Now, in this time of crises, my wheel of life shields, comforts, strengthens, and carries me. All of my efforts are returning and they allow me to show up as the woman I want to be in this situation.

It’s a gift.

How satisfied are you in the various areas of your life? Are you taking inspired and intelligent action to improve the areas that warrant it? Are you nurturing the areas you’re satisfied with? 

If you’re ready to change your life and you’d like my help, be sure to check out my interactive online school when enrollment opens this June.

~ Cynthia

The Key to your success.