The Spiral of Life

Chapter 1 THE SPIRAL OF LIFE

WHAT IT MEANS TO “UPSPIRAL” Similar to many people, you may have a pretty good idea of what you want for your life. A happy and healthy relationship? A great career or a successful business? Meaning and purpose? Financial success? However, have all the things you can feel deep down are right for you already fallen into place? If not, then you’re probably like many of us and doing your best to move forward each day and accomplish what’s most important to you. Along the way you possibly have encountered some challenges or setbacks? We all do at some point. There are so many things that happen to us as we make our way through the journey of life. Now, imagine your life today and all that has happened in the past is unfolding as you make your way up a winding path that looks like the picture on this page. It’s an upward spiral. It’s called The Spiral of Life.

ARE YOU MOVING UP THE SPIRAL OF LIFE TODAY? Today, you are making your way through life and you’re at some point on this spiral path. Depending on what’s going on in your life right now, you’re moving through one of the 3 big phases: Building, Strengthening or the Momentum phase. Each day you’re doing a lot and ideally making progress by taking steps in the right direction. When you’ve taken enough steps forward, you’ll reach another loop of the spiral, it ‘turns’ and you keep going, taking step after step forward and making your way up the Spiral of Life. Day by day, and year by year, you’re making your way through life and moving toward the top of the spiral. This is what it means to move up your spiral of Life and upspiral. And here’s the KEY: Even when you’re on the backside of the spiral, you’re still moving upward. All those times you’ve been worried, or confused or had doubts because something was going wrong, or not falling into place…you were just on the backside of the Spiral. As long as you keep taking steps forward, you’ll hit a frontside again.

THE MOST IMPORTANT AREAS OF OUR LIVES UNFOLD ON THE SPIRAL The Spiral of Life informs the most important aspects of our lives. Your relationships unfold on the spiral, your finances, your career, your goals, your personal development, your inner growth and even your spiritual journey (if that’s something you’re into). Each area of our life develops along an upward spiral path. It also became very clear that once we’re aware of that path, we can figure out what’s most important to us and take the right steps forward to move up the spiral and reach them. In other words, all those times you’ve heard people say that there’s a path to what’s most important to you…they’re right. Most importantly, when we upspiral, we really get in tune with who we are deep down, our true self. Why? Because when we upspiral not only are we successfully making progress, we’re also aligning with our higher self, or as I like to describe it, learning how to let our Extraordinary Side lead the way. Your Extraordinary Side is the part of you that has been urging you toward everything that’s truly right for you and it will absolutely guide you there. We just have to be willing to tune in, listen and take steps forward to move up the spiral.

HOW WE CAN USE THE SPIRAL TO MAKE PROGRESS IN OUR LIVES

I’m sure you can imagine what I did after I discovered that we can use the spiral and create what feels right for us deep down…I put upspiraling to the test.

How? I took one of the biggest leaps of faith and quit my job as an attorney so I could find my way to the work and career I felt deep down was right for me, but never had the guts to go after. It worked! It’s been over a decade since I quit my job and found my way to the meaningful and fulfilling work my Extraordinary Side had always been leading me toward. I’ll be sharing more about that and how you can also apply the spiral to your life and whatever is really important to you. But, the greatest thing about the spiral is that you don’t have to take my word for it. As you make your way through these pages and the action plan, you’ll see how the Spiral of Life and the recurring pattern has always been at play and is unfolding in your life right now. It will also be very clear how you can use the Spiral of Life moving forward and apply it to your job, your goals, your career, your business, your relationship or any other area of your life where you’re looking for any improvement, development, accelerated growth, or success.

IS UPSPIRALING FOR YOU?

Upspiraling is not for everyone. If you’re not feeling ready and open to dive into the outer work and inner work, break any patterns, bad habits, or work through any of the other “stuff of life” that’s been getting in the way…then this is a good time to stop reading this action plan.

In order to upsiral, we’ve got to do the work. There are days I’ve personally had on this journey that I’ve wished were easier. And, after watching and working with hundreds of other people as they made the way up their own spirals, there have been days when I wished it was easier for them too. I used to wish there was a magic wand I could wave and voila, just like that, everything would shift and fall into place. But there’s not. I’ve also realized that we actually wouldn’t want that to happen because a real gift happens in our lives every single time we dig deep, align with our Extraordinary Side, and move up another phase of the spiral. If you commit to upspiraling and stick with it, life will continually unfold in a beautiful and successful way. You’ll have a peaceful mind, continually find meaning and purpose, and accomplish what’s most important to you and that you’re meant to bring into the world. But, I think it’s also really important to share the depth of this journey with everyone upfront so anyone that’s not ready or willing can stop reading right now.