The Process of Reevaluating Your Life

What's Working, and What Needs to Change?

I was talking to a friend earlier this week about the surrounding chaos and what we were doing to navigate it.  We’re both very sensitive to energy, and we can feel all the fear and anger in the collective, which of course, concerns us.  We both feel a need to help other people, me as a channel and her as a healer, and we exchanged ideas and spoke about some projects we had in the works while also struggling to maintain our own balance and not depleting ourselves in the process.

I channel the Archangels, and they are always talking about the Big 4 – joy, hope, love, and peace – and how these things should be the foundation for our lives, that we need to focus on bringing in more of each and base our choices and decisions on what will bring us more of these key pillars.  I’ve been struggling with this idea, not the importance of it, but how to balance it with whatever projects I tackle now and in the future. 

First of all, the energy of August, at least for me, was intense.  I was constantly fighting anxiety and struggled to find balance and peace of mind.  I always have several projects going at once, and now is no exception.  In addition to writing on Medium, I added Substack newsletters to the mix a couple months ago, which includes several published articles a week, both for paid and non-paying followers.  That can be very time consuming, but it’s important to me to share Angel messages, among other things, that offer hope and comfort to others.

I spend a lot of time every week on writing, which I’ve always enjoyed, but I had to ask myself if the time I spent on writing articles for writing platforms was worth the personal investment.  I’m not talking about money.  The money dried up on Medium when they got a new CEO.  The only reason I’m still writing there is because I value my 5500 followers.  One of the things I’ve enjoyed the most over the years was the community and all the lovely comments people left for me.  I’ve made a lot of virtual friends there, and we care about each other.  Even that has drastically declined, as so many have left, I think because the overall energy on the platform has become so frustrated and negative.  Trust, transparency, and partnership with regard to the company are non-existent now, and people feel that. Many wonderfully talented writers have left, and I miss them.  While the love I have for my readers remains, the Big 4 hasn’t been fed from writing platforms for quite some time, and I’ve decided that, while I’ll continue to write for these platforms on a limited basis, they are losing their priority status, because they are not supporting my own priorities. 

My process in coming to these conclusions began with pinpointing what fulfills and satisfies me the most.  Writing, channeling, helping people, and a sense of community are the most important outlets I have for my creativity, time, and effort.  They are what feed my joy, hope, love, and peace, so I want to be sure and continue to do those things in the foreseeable future.  I just have to pursue them in different ways and find new outlets for them.    

I remembered what the Archangels have been saying all year, to base choices and decisions on the Big 4. I have many people and Guides approach me with ideas for collaboration and various projects, and I’ve been told over and over again to choose with discernment who I work with and what I spend my time and effort on.  It’s finally sunk in, I think.  After I sat down and identified writing, channeling, helping other people, and community as the things that most fulfilled me, I looked at where I was spending most of my time.  I spend most of my time writing for writing platforms. 

Then I considered whether or not that work increased the Big 4 and if it provided me an outlet and opportunity for the things that added value to my life.  Again, those things are writing, channeling, helping others and community.  Obviously, posting articles on platforms is an outlet for writing and channeling, but whether or not they’re helping people at this point is debatable, and they are no longer providing me with the community I need and once enjoyed so much.  The energy on Medium is to the point of being toxic, not in terms of personal attacks or anything like that, but in terms of positivity and enthusiasm.  I like the energy on Substack so far, but it’s a very slow process to build a following, and there’s not much community interaction yet, at least where my writing is concerned.  So, out of the four things that I determined were important to me, writing on platforms covered two.

Next, I looked at the Big 4.  Does writing on platforms bring me joy?  No, other than the comments I receive from my readers.  Does it bring me hope?  That’s a definite no for Medium.  You can’t have hope without trust and transparency, and Medium no longer offers those essentials.  The jury is still out on Substack in terms of whether or not it will grow into offering those things, but for now that’s a shaky maybe.  Does it bring me love?  Again, I love my readers, but the platforms themselves are not a source of love.  And, finally, peace.  Writing on platforms does not bring me peace, but it does add to my stress. 

With all this in mind, I’ve decided to make some adjustments.  I’ll continue to write on platforms on a limited basis, at least for a while, but I’m also designing a course on channeling, which I’ve avoided for years, but which I’m now being guided and encouraged to pursue.  In addition, I’ve been working on an Archangels Q & A book for years, and I want to finish it and get it published by next year.  I’ve got some other projects on back burners for later consideration, but for now, I’m plenty busy. My goal has always been to help as many people as possible.  What I’m learning and focusing on now and should have always included in that goal is that, however I do that, I need to receive as much as I give in terms of joy, hope, love, and peace.  That hasn’t been the case for some time when it comes to writing on Medium, and so far, Substack, while growing, isn’t providing what I need, either, in those areas.

If you’re like me and have struggled with where to spend your time and effort and where to prioritize, take some time to process, analyze, and reevaluate what you’re doing. Follow the following steps:

1.     Identify what fulfills and satisfies you.

2.     Analyze where you’re spending most of your time.

3.     Ask yourself if the time and effort you’re spending involves those things you identified in number 1.

4.     Reevaluate whether or not those things feed the Big 4, joy, hope, love, and peace.

5.     Make changes as needed to do more of the things that fulfill and satisfy you, as well as bring you more of the Big 4.

You can start slow.  I’m fortunate that I’m now retired, so I have more flexibility now than I did when I was part of the work force, but even when I was working, if I was unhappy, I would look for ways to counter that unhappiness.  Sometimes that involved looking for a new job, and sometimes that involved carving time out to do more of the things that fulfilled me in order to counterbalance the yuck.  I’d never heard of the Big 4 back then, because I hadn’t yet begun to channel, but I knew that if I was dissatisfied with my life, I was the only one who could change that.  Yes, life is hard, but it shouldn’t be miserable.  It’s all about finding balance, and you do that by countering the bad stuff with more good stuff.

We can’t control most of what’s going on in the world, but we can assume some control over our own lives and how we react to everything going on around us.  If you’re not happy, do something to make yourself happier.  We’re not going to find much comfort from the world’s situations right now, so we need to create our own havens within our lives.  We can do that by setting priorities that include and center around the Big 4 and what brings us fulfillment and satisfaction.  As the Angels have said many times, life should be enjoyed, not simply endured.  Create your own enjoyment.

I hope you have a wonderful weekend and take some time to analyze your life in terms of whether or not it fulfills you and brings you the Big 4.  If you’re interested, you can join me, the Archangels, and others for Friday night meditation from wherever you are, at whatever time is convenient.  The intention for this month’s meditations is Release, to help us and others release the fear, anger, and hostility with which we all struggle and can overcome.  Responding to these things with more of the same just adds to the problems we are facing, rather than contributing to any possible solutions.  We’ve got to, at some point, come together to fix our world, and we can’t do that while fighting each other.  If you’d like to participate, just call on the Archangels, and they will gather your loving energy and distribute it where it’s most needed.

Blessings, all.