Committed: Embracing the Life You Were Born For

Well, I want to be one of the first people to welcome you into the second quarter of 2025. Can you believe it? The first three months of this year have come and gone, and we are already entering the fourth month. Honestly, the first three months of 2025 brought great clarity, confrontation, and change in my life. I am not sure what has happened to me over the last three months, but I know that my tolerance for any type of foolishness is at an all-time low. I have no room for excuses and I am consistently executing my goals and making progress. I hope these insights will empower you to stop playing it safe and dare to embrace the life you’ve been born for!

1. You have to be honest with yourself. Many of you reading this pride yourself on keeping it real and living authentically. However, from personal experience, I can tell you that it is much easier to preach authenticity than to practice it. In fact, we can dish out truths to everyone else with no problem. However, when it comes to being truthful with the reflection in the mirror, all of a sudden we are filled with trepidation and excuses. If you want to make 2025 the greatest year of your life, then you are going to have to be honest with yourself. In particular, be honest about the habits that are no longer serving you, the relationships that have reached their expiration date, and the mindsets that have settled you into a life of mediocrity. My courage to be honest with myself at a different level has brought great healing and prompted great change in my life. If you cannot be honest with yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. Self-deception is the ultimate deception. As long as you are afraid of the truth, you are complicit in the demise and destruction of your life.
2. You have to address the areas of your life that need to change. While being honest with yourself takes tremendous courage, it takes even more courage to address areas in your life that you know need to change. As I looked at my life just a few months ago, I realized that just because I ignored some things did not make them invisible. Moreover, pretending like something is not bothering you does not make you blind to it. At some point, you have to move beyond simply acknowledging that something needs to change and actually address what needs to be changed. In other words, you are going to have to get uncomfortable, upset some people and be willing to totally shake up your life. Anything you are unwilling to address, you are ultimately accepting. When we are faced with that reality, it eliminates the excuses and makes us accountable for our actions. It was in the willingness to address these things that true awakening started to take place in my life. You have everything to gain by giving up what no longer serves you.
3. You have to be committed to the life you have been born for. As someone who knows what it takes to be successful, one of the greatest challenges I have had to consistently overcome is the challenge of priorities. If you do not take your personal power back, you will spend the rest of your life serving the priorities of everyone else at the expense of making yourself an option. One thing I am learning in 2025 is that nobody can change your life but you. More importantly, the commitments you make define the change that you experience in your life. What are you committed to? Often we answer this question with all the right answers. However, what I know from decades of experience is that you are not committed to anything that you are not constantly choosing. I want you to digest that statement for a moment. We have to stop lying to ourselves and declaring a commitment that we never demonstrate with our lives. Anything you are truly committed to, you will concentrate on. Furthermore, anything you are committed to, you will become consumed with. Until you find the thing that captivates you, it is safe to say that you have not identified the thing that you were born for.
4. You must embrace the life that you were born for. While we are only four months into 2025, I can tell you that I have learned some important lessons already. Just like we do spring cleaning, you need to do some soul cleaning in your life. What mindsets do you need to get rid of? What internal narratives do you need to reframe? What relationships do not support who you are becoming? In order to embrace the life that you have been born for, some things will have to be eliminated from your life. We have to stop seeing elimination as a loss. Instead, we must see elimination as an opportunity to grow and advance. Some things have to be detached from your life in order to embrace a deeper life. Embracing the life that you were born for means getting rid of all the weights that war against your wholeness, significance and becoming the best version of yourself. There are parts of you that must die for new parts of you to emerge. Recognize that in your letting go, you are inviting everything that has been destined for your life.