Be a Spiritual Girl in a Material World

Reading, writing, and arithmetic will always be necessary elements of a comprehensive education. But, on their own, they do not equip you with the ability to lead a joyous and well-balanced life. In the traditional education system, there are no personal development classes for finding what you love to do, for healing, forgiveness, or for teaching us to love more and fear less. We are left to figure it out on our own. Most of us think a life worth living comes from working hard and playing harder. And for you, that may feel right, but there is more to creating a life worth living filled with depth and meaning. People like to say, “Live every day like it’s your last,” but what does that get you? Living recklessly? Exhausted and fed up with all that hasn’t worked out for you? That promotion you never got? That lover who left you instead of working it out? The weight you could never get rid of once and for all? Making decisions only thinking about now without consideration for tomorrow? I say, “Live every day as if it’s your first,” engaging the same curiosity you originally carried into this world and filling your days with energy, enthusiasm, and excitement for what is to come. Look forward to getting the job of your dreams; to finding that lover who understands you and doesn’t give up on you; to feeling so secure that you release extra weight and live healthily; to making decisions with your end in mind, knowing what you want to experience and feel along your journey. I have words to remind myself of how I want to show up and to keep me tuned into the legacy I want to leave. I want to be loving, passionate, and present. I want people to say I am inspiring, caring, and engaged. Each day, I gauge how I am doing at living up to my words by checking my routines, my productivity, and my embodiment of those words. What are your words? How do you want to be described? How will you check to make sure you are living in alignment? The good news is that you hold all the power. Awareness empowers you to identify the time-suckers and energy-wasters, who consume your precious inner resources, and frees you to flex your mental, physical, and emotional wellness muscles, allowing you to clear the way for the important things—you know, those things that embody your joy and give your life incredible depth and meaning. Living from this place, as if it’s my first day, keeping who and how I want to be in mind, reminds me to respect my deepest, most loving desires. This allows me to honor the person I am and not that crazed woman who used to come out during trying times, lashing out and hurting people with her actions, intentions, and words. One of the reasons I share my story with you is so you can see how changing my mindset saved my life. Believe me when I tell you that I went from feeling life’s energy escaping my body to, the next day, feeling life’s energy enter. The sensations were beyond description. I felt reborn, as if the hard shell that prevented anything good from coming in had cracked open. I never looked back. I allowed the feeling to carry me. I decided to take another shot at life. No more surviving. I was tired of being sick and tired. I was going to live full out and be a loving, passionate, and present person. I reconciled with the fact that as long as there is air in my lungs and a heart beating in my chest, I am alive, and I will behave like it. As a society, we are exhausted, and any motivation to maximize productivity is generated by fear. We must look at productivity in a whole new way if we want to engage in a way of life that can be sustained long-term. Life can get lonely and make us feel like our existence is just that: existence, survival, nothing special. We live and die. I believe there is much more than that. But even if you accept this philosophy, why wouldn’t you want to make this the best damn life? We are all special. Think of the miracle it took to bring you into being. Two people at exactly the right time had to come together to create the miracle that is you. That’s pretty special, isn’t it? I know it doesn’t always feel that way, but a sure way to feel good more often is to tune in to the miraculous being that is you. I need you to feel worthy of creating a life worth living. That is what each of us is promised when we are created and born into this world: the opportunity to create a life worth living. Nothing more, nothing less. If we continue dancing in the darkness of chaos in the Material World, living by default, allowing The Others to define our path, operating out of tune with our passion or purpose, we will not notice when we stray from our chosen path; life will feel hard, and we will question if it’s worth the effort we put into it. The Flight Plan is a way of living, a process you practice each and every day that keeps you aligned with your chosen path. Together, the three critical components of The Flight Plan create total wellbeing, allowing you to live more effortlessly with passion, purpose, and play to achieve the success you desire without sacrificing your health, wealth, and happiness. Components of the Flight Plan There are three critical components of the Flight Plan: Passion, Purpose, and Play. The upcoming sections explore how to live with Passion, Purpose, and Play, providing a clear understanding of how you infuse your Flight Plan with each component so you can achieve success without sacrificing your wellbeing.