There are times when we are actively creating the life we want to live. We go for a new job we really want, take a class on something we are passionate about, join a group that interests us, or begin a hobby we love that fulfills us. This is when we write our own life story. Then there are the times we are merely taking notes. We jot down what others want, need, expect, and follow the appropriate outline. The difference between the two is startling. When we are writing our own life we feel centered, connected, and live life in full color. These are the times when the unexpected aligns, strange synchronicities unfold, and we feel a necessary part of the world. Taking notes feels shallow, as if there’s always something missing.

Writing our own lives can also mean the people closest to us and know us the best are less than thrilled. Authenticity requires change and harnessing our inner power, which can be frightening to others and even to ourselves at times. The truth is sometimes what our soul wants doesn’t fit the needs of what others have come to expect. Writing our own lives means listening to the intuition that is usually dismissed and discarded and then following it down as far as it leads, often to the darkest places within ourselves. But writing our own life is the only way to right our life.

It’s the process that saves us. It’s how we learn to honor what’s on the inside so we can live it fully on the outside. Then in its own strange way, and with the weirdest timing, we come into a life that is wholly and uniquely ours. It’s less and less about the big things and more about the small choices we make everyday. What do we do with that extra hour? Read, go for a walk in nature, or watch TV and complain that we never have enough time to do all the things we would like to do? These shifts have the power to change the trajectory of our lives.

Our lives happen in small steps, some imperceptible. Sometimes all the things we’ve missed snowball until we can finally see them, and hopefully it helps point us to the wisdom waiting inside. Our sincere intentions and actions can melt the ice that’s had us frozen. It all starts with our greater awareness and that leads us right back to writing. Write it out, your life, your loves, your misery, misunderstandings, longings, desires. Begin writing, unfold your center from there.

Write your life and come back to the home waiting inside.

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