30WaystoLiveOutLoudEbook

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Om Freely:30 Ways to

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Om Freely: 30 Ways to Live Out Lo

1. Live your life on purpose. Not on DEFAULT. Be Proactive. Make consciousand deliberate choices. When you dont choose, circumstances choose for you and you arenever leading: you are following or catching up, or worse, living in default mode. Instead,make a decision to be the leader in your own life and take front and center. Lead.

2. Utilize your full potential. Give what youre doing your best and fullestattention. Be here now. Even if youre not where you want to be, giving it half your effortdoesnt move you forward. Master what you have at hand, for the sake of mastering it, andsomething will shift. Give it what youve got.

3. Overcome your fear. Get out of your comfort zone. Find out you have a pulse. Letsomething give you butterflies in your stomach. This is how you know youre alive - how yougrow into something new. Every fear overcome is a freedom gained. The less afraid you are,the more room you have to play. Consider that you live in a huge mansion with 35 roomsbut you only live in 3 of the rooms because the rest of the house is dark. Go in and open allthe lights. Unveil the darkness and you have a bigger house to play in. Dont know how toovercome fear? Do the thing youre afraid of. Cross them off the list. Make it a game. Prettysoon, you will be invincible. Living a life out loud, is living a life of freedom. Living a life offreedom is good.

4. Discover a new talent. One of my favorite quotes by Martha Grimes is, Wedont know who we are until we see what we can do. But we dont find this out until we trysomething new. You dont know what jewels you have inside of you until you tap into them.You might just find out you are a multi-talented, multi-faceted individual. Dont know whatto try? Here are some suggestions; learn a new instrument, take an art class, play with adigital camera, sign up for a salsa class, take up cooking, plant a garden, join toastmasters,pick up a needle and thread, try mountain climbing, go scuba diving, camping or kayaking.The list is endless. And they dont all cost money. Create an online social network. Findsomething that interests you and explore it. You never know what will come out of it andisnt that the whole purpose of being here? To discover who you are?

5. Honor your word.When you strip everything else away, your word is all youve got.Do what you say youre going to do. By honoring your word, you honor yourself. And itdoesnt feel good when you dont. So, make it a habit. Value your integrity and keep yourpromises. Its a good life practice. Its a good business practice.

6. Create a new habit or break an old one. This goes in line with #1 Leading. Who has dominion over your life - you or your habits? Make it a game. How manythings can you get under your control? How many bad habits can you convert. Jack Canfieldin his book, Success Principles: How to Get from Where you Are to Where You Want to Beincludes a chapter entitled: Develop Four New Success Habits a Year. There is a great senseof empowerment when you feel you are in charge of your life. This helps you get there.

If you ask me what I came to do in this world,I will tell you, I came to Live Out LOUD.

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7. Pay a stranger a compliment. Does the woman ahead of you in the checkout have a fabulous hair style? Tell her so. Is the man on the subway wearing a nice tie?Tell him so. Not only does it make someone else feel good, but it makes you feel good tocompliment someone else. All of the sudden the world is small and the stranger next to us

becomes our friend and we recognize that were all in this together.

8. Take yourself out on a date.Are you ashamed to be single? Dont be. Anddont wait until you have company to get out. Treat yourself. Bring a book. Bring somethingyoure working on. Bring a journal and use it to write up all the amazing qualities that youwant in a partner or a friendship when it comes your way. Find somewhere that has music orwireless and plant yourself there. Have a meal, enjoy it. Treat yourself. You deserve it. Livingout loud is playing out loud whether you have someone to join you or not. And you neverknow who you might meet or strike up a conversation with. There may be another singlediner dining about, or your waitress (or waiter) may become your new best friend. Again,small world. Six degrees of separation. Were all in this together. There is no right way to

do it. Make your own rules. Live by them.

9. Take 100% responsibility for your life.If things arent working out in yourfavor, take note and ask yourself what your part in it is? Being a victim, is pass, boring.There is no power in blaming other people. Dont wait for other people to change. Whenyou change, your world will follow suit. Claim dominion over the only life you have controlover. Use the unwanted circumstances to make clear what NEW thing you want to createin your life and then start asking about how to get there. You will be led, but you first haveto lead with the question, the intention, the commitment to change. There is no poweroutside of yourself.

10. Live in the question. There is nothing you cannot be, do or have. So do notimpose limitations on yourself. You are ALWAYS in co-creation with something muchbigger than you. Call it God, Universe, Angels, Divine Beings you have an invisible teamthat is supporting you, waiting on your very direction. But it works in collaboration withyou, in partnership. Instead of saying you cant get there, ask How can I get there? Livein the affirmation of possibility rather than the declaration of negativity. There is always away, and it is being presented consistently, but you have to live in the question to be onthe lookout for the answer.

11. Make more decisions for yourself. Living out Loud is about being aDECIDER. Its part of taking dominion over your life. When you are not making the

decision, something or someone else is deciding for you. People who have becomesuccessful made a decision to become successful. There is great power in making adecision. Its a declaration. You dont know what you want? Then look at what you DONTwant and work backwards. I bet you DO know what you want, you just havent been in thehabit of asking yourself. Hey. Thats a new habit to change! (See #6)


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12. Learn to say No. A fabulous teacher, I once knew said Your Yess meannothing until you can learn to say No. Many people, especially women, have a problemwith saying the word NO, mostly in fear of letting someone else down. And in order tolive your best possible life, you need to learn how to say NO to the things that arent serving

you. Living out Loud means taking your Yess seriously. The best barometer to measurethis by is: if it isnt a HELL YES (yippee, so fun, cant wait), then it is most probably a NO.If you have to talk yourself into it, its a NO. Living your life on purpose is following the Yess.Once you get comfortable saying NO, everything becomes a matter of choice. Living a lifeof choice is a living a life of freedom. Living a life of freedom is good.

13. Know your own value.Do not defer. There is no one above or below you.Others may be more educated, skilled or talented in one or another area, but there issomething magnificent and valuable about what you have to offer this world that, incomparison, is equal. Do not allow yourself or anyone else to diminish it. It is a sin(errorin thinking), to deny your greatness. The great teacher Jesus, who once walked this earth

said, Yea are Gods. . . and yea shall do greater things than me. How do you know hewasnt talking about you? What are you hiding? Are you a computer geek? So was BillGates. Billionaire. What? You have a learning disability? So did Dr. John Demartini andthats what makes him the most powerful speaker today. Stop idolizing anyone elses giftsand/or dismissing your own. Stop hiding your light under a bushel. Take pride in yourtalents. Living Out Loud is allowing yourself to shine and allowing others to do the same.Dont know what sorts of talents you have? Good. Then, its time to find out!

14. Give yourself permission. For everything. Give yourself permission to makemistakes. Give yourself permission to shine. Give yourself permission to look beautiful. Giveyourself permission to accept (instead of correct or dismiss) praise. Give yourself permission

to have bad days. Give yourself permission to get angry. Give yourself permission to cry,to laugh, to scream. Give yourself permission to take the day off. Give yourself permissionto take a nap, go to sleep early. Give yourself permission to get a massage. Give yourselfpermission to do nothing. Give yourself permission to succeed. Give yourself permission tofail. Life is about LIVING, not about getting there, being there, acquiring stuff, or pursuingsome end result. Life and living is about being here NOW, in all your full range of emotions,mood swings, wins and losses. Take responsibility for where you are, now. It will changesoon enough tomorrow. Give yourself permission to Live Out Loud. Today. No shame.

15. Own your own opinion.No one has to agree with you in order for your opinionto matter. Stop waiting for consensus. YOU matter. Your opinion matters. The nature of

Living Out Loud is that some people will agree with you and some people wont. You willNEVER get consensus. So, stop looking for it. The only question you have to ask is, doesyour opinion matter to you? Claim it. Own it. And know that with new information, it couldchange tomorrow. Life is transitory. Live in the evolution.


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16. Do not punish yourself for past actions.Know this: your past behaviorwas what youve DONE, but it is not who you ARE. Who you ARE is still unfolding, beingdiscovered, being triumphant in its evolving stages. Forgive yourself for past actions.Stop berating yourself. Mistakes, errors in judgments, and failures all add to our character

and value. It makes us human and compassionate and wise. To berate yourself foracquiring these VALUABLE qualities is wrong, so stop it. A new beginning starts today.Living Out Loud means claiming yourself in your entirety (warts and all), and to see yourown beauty in the midst of it all.

17. Live in the realm of possibility rather than probability.Stay open at the top. You dont know what the outcome can be. Statistics are made up ofgroups. You are an Individual. Be the individual that charts your own course. The laws of theuniverse adhere to your vibration. So declare it. Do not fall into the temptation of GROUPTHINK. Own your truth. You dont know what is possible for you until you find out.

18. Do not argue for your limitations, but instead focus on yourstrengths. We all have weaknesses, but we also have our strengths. What do youdo well? Practice that. When you lead with your strengths, the rest follows suit. Andmiraculously, your limitations sort of disappear. What you focus on grows.

19. Practice gratitude. In a world of imperfections, its amazing how perfect thingsactually are. But sometimes we have to look for them. Practicing gratitude is an antidote todepression. It is also the precursor to a fabulous life. The more grateful you are, the moreyou have to be grateful for. This goes with #1 & #6. When your lifes circumstances arentworking in your favor, the one thing you DO have control over is your attitude. If you leadwith gratitude, and create a habit of it, in short order, your life will change.

20. Be authentic. Thoreau said something profound, If I am not I, who will be?Why try to be like anyone else? Did you ever notice that the ones who are most successfulare not the ones that follow the masses and trends, but the ones who stand in their ownauthentic expression and declare who they are? Regardless of who agrees with them?There is an expression that is uniquely yours and to dismiss it, is to dismiss the divine.Living Out Loud is leading with the authentic. Dont know what that looks like for you?Then, thats a good place to start. Live in the question. Watch for clues.

21. Own your own power. Innately, we were given an inner guidance, an innerknowing that is capable of leading us to live extraordinary lives. And something in you isalways aware of this knowing. The answers are not outside of you. Own what you know.The more you practice this, the more you hone your own powerful magnetic field thatsurrounds you and the more power you emit in your convictions, knowing and in your life.And your results will confirm this.


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22. Stop Complaining. Complaining is a form of passive victimhood. Its a way ofsaying that someone (or something else) has taken dominion over your life. Stop. Askyourself instead, why is this happening to me and what part do I play in this picture?And then work on YOUR part of the solution. Have you ever found yourself not setting a

boundary and allowing someone to take advantage of you? Maybe you didnt take careof yourself so well in a situation and got burned by the outcome? Or, have you ever nottrusted your gut instinct and ended up having to pay the consequence? We are alwaysthe single common denominators in our life and we are the only ones we have controlover. Use what you are complaining about as your inner clues as to where you need tostart taking better care of yourself. Be the VICTOR in your life. Its the only life you have towork with. This is part of leading and not living your life on default.

23. Practice Being and have nothing to prove.Know your own valuewith or without results. Your value is in your human Being-ness not your Human Doing-ness. In a society that is wrapped up in image, this is sometimes difficult to practice.

People ask what you DO, not who you ARE. But a person who knows their own value,does not have to prove it. There is great power in just being. Be still and know that youare GOD. To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. Chuang-tse

24. Be of service. Cast a wider net, energetically, of your circle of friends. Be of servicewhere you can, to who you can be of service to. Edwene Gaines, a funny teacher, says Dont beso spiritual that youre of no earthly good! Offer your help where you can and do your partin making the world a friendly place. We are all in this together. As Gandhi preached: BE thechange that you wish to see happen. You would be surprised by the impact you have.

25. Love generously.Spread random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty.

Hatred is already rampant. We need to tip the scales the other way. Love is a far morepowerful emotion and has far reaching consequences. Living out Loud means Loving OutLoud. And ironically, the more you love, the more love you have to give. It is a generativeemotion capable of transforming the entire planet. Be generous with it. Dont skimp.

26. Find your bliss and live your passion.Again, dont know what that is? Thenits time to find out! Your emotions give away clues. When your life has spun out of controland you are finding yourself in a tizzy, go back to what makes you happiest and do that. Themore you follow this thread, the more you are leading with the heart. There are always waysto monetize your passion, to find ways to make a living at what you love, but first you have todiscover it. Your emotions dont lie. Follow their lead. They will true you every time. If its not

a Hell Yeah (yippee, hooray, more of this please!) then its not worth exploring. Find out whatrocks your world and play there for awhile. Find out where it takes you. Make this your real job.

27. Stop waiting. Life is happening right now. Dont wait for the right career, the perfectrelationship, the landfill of money. Make the best of what you have right now and be creativewith it. Dont put your life on pause. Live with the possibility that what you are waiting for canarrive tomorrow, and live your best life TODAY. Time is Now. Make use of it. This momentdoesnt repeat itself tomorrow. Tomorrow is a different moment. Live todays moment. Today.


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28. Let other people off the hook. They didnt mean harm, and even if theydid, it hurt them more than it hurt you. Pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and rise eventaller. Living Out Loud is Thriving out Loud. Dont use anyone as your excuse to shirkyour responsibility to live a bigger life. Victimhood is not a badge of honor. Overcoming

adversity is. Use success and joy as your barometer. And march on.

29. Use co-creation to help you. We have at our disposal a power that createsworlds. We are ALWAYS working in conjunction with invisible forces. Acknowledge them,address them, put them to work. They want to create on your behalf, but they are waitingfor your leadership to direct them. Consider them invisible managers in the sky. They havebroad reach and are ready to put into place your hearts desire. Living Out Loud meansacknowledging that we are a big presence with a big force of nature at our disposal. Wedont underestimate our power. We utilize it.

30. March to the beat of your own drum and STAY THE COURSE.Do you hear your own music, but find yourself dancing to the tune of someone elsesbeat? Stop it. Were you told at any point in your life that your own music was the wrongkind? Re-Consider. Your own music has genius to it. Just like the acorn has containedwithin it everything it needs to become an oak tree, so within your own music, do youhave the notes to play out your lifes grand song. The symphony of the worlds vibration,the hum of its tune, is the sound OM (aum). The task is to find your own Om - your lifeforce vibration; life pattern or purpose; your song or melody - and to live it. We all havea divine patterning, a blue print that we cant escape, something that has our originalimprint on it. As we move closer and closer in alignment with this source, we feel closerand closer to our own divinity, our own God, our own life force, our own OM. So thetask is always to find it, claim it, express it, and live it. And to never (not ever) give up on

yourself. You are who you are. Its time to honor that and make use of it. Stay the course.

For many of us, this is already a way of life. But to others, some of these practices may feel

daunting. To you, I say this:just start.You may not succeed 100% of the time, but like a

friend once said, life is a hard hat zone, were always under construction.

Bloom where you are planted. Work from the inside out. Make the commitment to

yourself and get started.

Find your Om. Claim It. Own it. Express It. Live it. You are divinely supported.

Sonya Derian, MA is the creator of Om Freely: an online resource for

tools, tips, inspiration and support for living a life out loud. She is

also the author of Monday Morning Memos, a FREE weekly Ezine that

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