Give Yourself Permission

Imagine if I told you Permission was the key to a happy and wealthy life?

You would absolutely make it a priority, right? 

Not exactly.

The issue is, most women don’t know the depths to which we are not self-honoring and breaking down the barriers to our most potent power in permission.

First of all… what is permission? Permission is an act of consent. Permission for many of us came from permission slips at school or permission from our parents to do or not do something. We would say in hushed tones, I didn’t get permission to do that, but I am going to do it anyway, and then we feared the outcome. As we became adults, we now had stakes and responsibility, and these permissions we were willing to risk now became liabilities and we found it easier to conform to society. So we squished our most beautiful daring parts.

Now as grown women, with jobs, and children, and partners, the only models of permission we have are women who appear to have achieved permission for happiness and wealth on paths that don’t seem available to us, so we accept a life that is 50% happy, Maybe for some of us 80% happy. Sometimes that 20% is even harder to move the needle than if you are sobbing on the floor of your bathroom completely bereft.

We think we are happy enough and wealthy enough so why rock the boat.

This is the exact problem. We accept too little because we still fundamentally believe someone ELSE needs to give us permission to take chances, pivot, speak up, act different, think out of the box, and basically live life intuitively from the heart. 

Permission also continues to be elusive because we make excuses. We complain, and justify and the truth is, we haven’t had time to figure out our own path to happiness because it has been intellectually and historically connected to men. We need our own statistics so we can get out of our own way!

Permission has three parts… one is understanding what it is, and how it affects our life. The second is breaking down the path to permission and the Gunk that gets in our way of our ultimate freedom for happiness and wealth. And finally, the last part is standing in the new you in a permission-filled life.

I have been in a lot of places of permission in my life, especially in the last four years where I made decisions that may have seemed out of the box for others but worked for me. I have not been muting myself or doubting my decisions. I have pivoted towards happiness, and a wealthy life in all areas (not just monetary) has emerged. 

My life has never been more joyful and abundant and rich in all areas.

I am building a Permission community. I would love for you to build it with me, and join me.

Sign up for my Permission community and watch how we grow to support each other and our endeavors. 

 I give you permission.

Love,
Kim

I write a weekly column on Permission.