How much of your life are you living based on other people’s rules? The more rules you subordinate to (rather than heart-fully choose to live by), the more detached from your “true self” you are. When you follow rules that aren’t yours, you don’t feel “alive” in your life and find yourself “existing” rather than living.

When living by a set of outdated rules, you typically feel trapped in a rut, uninspired, burdened, and flat. To the degree you subordinate to others’ rules is to the degree you feel like you are part of the walking dead. Is it time to update the “policy and procedures” manual for your life and get back to your heart? What do you need to let go of? A belief, a habit, a mindset, a group, an expectation, a person…?