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What Does It Mean to “Live Your Truth?”

Elizabeth Potts Weinstein — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:14:00 +0000

I talk about Live Your Truth all the time (it’s even tattooed on the inside of my wrist!), and every so often someone actually asks me straight out, “what do you mean by live your truth?”

As I’ve said many times, I can’t tell you what it means to live your truth.

Because it’s your truth.

Not the truth. Not my truth. Not the truth written by the gurus or dictated by institutions or governments or your parents.

But your personal truth.

Now, that’s all nice and good, but you may want a little more freaking direction than that.

I define “living your truth” in two different ways … one is the mission of my company, and other other is my personal definition & the tools I use to apply it in my life.

Live Your Truth empowers solo-entrepreneurs to make a greater contribution to the world and become more successful & fulfilled by doing what is a natural extension of who they really are.

(thanks to Ken Moorhead for yanking this out of me during a late night consulting session)

But that’s not *my* truth and it’s not *your* truth … that’s just what I’m doing here in this business.

Living my truth is about begin 100% myself 100% of the time, about speaking the things that everyone thinks but no one says, about choosing to be uncomfortable every day, about being a visible leader of this movement.

But what could Living Your Truth mean to you?

During the first weekly #lytchat (live your truth twitter chat) we discussed this very question, and here are some of the responses:

idance_iwrite: Actively letting go of what other’s want from you and listening to your ‘inner voice’
JanieC: letting the real and best you out of it’s hiding spot
LisaMHines: Being courteous to others, but not letting them persuade your actions, words, etc.
kymleeisawesome: knowing what you are & are not responsible for. not doing anything that doesn’t fit your vision for yourself
tarufisher: For me, #LYT is saying “no” when I mean “no”, and “yes” when I mean “yes”.
ACCompanyC: disregarding the “shoulds’” – or at least questioning why should I?
LisaMHines: LYT means staying in a centered place, honoring my true self in everything I do.
JanieC: getting rid of barriers, real and imagined
bethearle: For me it’s living my values
JennaAvery: Having the courage to say what I mean, mean what I say, do what I love, and love what I do, in all things.
bethearle: practicing outwardly what my inner self knows intuitively
lizschneider: keeping soul-level promises that i make to myself.
jaladesigns: 4 me, its simply just being myself instead of trying 2 b perfect. It’s living & operating w/ honesty, integrity & decency.
lorilatimer: Doing what’s right for me, not what anyone else thinks or wants
lizschneider: Living my truth means, “walking my talk”, speaking what I think and doing what I speak
truthlifecoach: It’s about honoring my core values and trusting my “gut”
jhaubein: Being yourself no matter what others might think of you. Staying true to your values.
daniellemmiller: making sure my purpose and values are not compromised by my head worrying about what others think
jenngbob: Living my truth means not feeling guilty for doing what I intuitively feel I should be doing right now
ChristineVenart: For me, living my truth means to show up as myself always, push myself past my fears, and to say the hard truth
kymleeisawesome: not being afraid to take that leap of faith, facing down the fear and moving forward into uncertainty
lorilatimer: It also means saying “no” when that’s what’s best for me – something I didn’t used to do
KyraHowell: Living my truth means knowing my vision and allowing that to be my life.
m_michael: Living my truth: Being fearless w/o recklessness
YourGoToGuy: Simply doing instead of worrying.
daniellemmiller: complete trust in my intuition and “gut”
chrisarcucci: speaking & living my truth with compassion and clarit
lorilatimer: Getting out of my head and listening to my heart/intuition
bethearle: not following the crowd/ marching to my own drum
MarySchaefer: Giving myself permission to be BIG and small and loving myself in any state

So … I’d love to hear your thoughts & ideas, by you commenting below …

… do any of these resonate with you? What do the words “live your truth” mean to you?

And, we love for you to RSVP and join us for the next Live Your Truth twitter chat (#lytchat) - it’s free and open to anyone to join (yes, to participate in the conversation you need a twitter account). See you there!

Are You Coming to the Live Your Truth Twitterchat? #lytchat

Elizabeth Potts Weinstein — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:48:57 +0000

Living your truth is an adventure.

It’s a challenge. It feels uncomfortable.

Living your truth is not an absolute.

I can’t teach you what your truth is … that is your own personal exploration. It’s a dialogue, a conversation with yourself. With your clients. With everyone who cares about you.

And the only way to live in your truth is to have support.

A community. Other amazing friends to go on this adventure with you.

In that spirit, I’m starting a Live Your Truth Twitter Chat on Sundays at 6 pm Pacific (Los Angeles time) / 9 pm EST (New York time), where each week we will be discussing specific ideas, challenges, experiences, and topics relevant to living our truth in our businesses and lives.

The first chat starts THIS SUNDAY February 21st!

The #lytchat is open to everyone who wants to join the conversation!

Of course, a bunch of the members of the 6 Weeks to Live Your Truth program will be there, adding to the discussion.

What is a Twitter Chat?

Think of a twitter chat as like a bunch of us sitting around a table discussing a topic.

Except we are all sitting at our separate computers in different parts of the world.

And instead of discussing it with our voices, we are typing our questions, answers, and opinions into twitter. In 140 characters at a time.

The way twitter chats are organized is by using a hashtag, so the entire conversation can be gathered together into one place, searched, and followed … best practice is to follow these chats using a site made just for this – I like to use tweetchat.com

If you have any questions/feedback/ideas about #lytchat or topics you’d like for us to dicsuss, please comment below!

Do You Want Every Day to be Epic?

Elizabeth Potts Weinstein — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 02:15:23 +0000

Of course you do.

Join @ElizabethPW and @AllisonNazarian for the weekly twitter chat “Epic Adventures in Everyday Life” (#epicchat) on Wednesdays at 5:00 PM Pac / 8:00 PM EST

Join EPW (closer-to-the-edge girl) and ANaz (closer-to-home girl) as they explore:

How life doesn’t stop when you become a mom … it begins.
Why you need (at least) a bit of crazy and adventure in your life, even if you are not a risk-taker or adrenaline junkie.
How you don’t need to travel to India or jump out of a plane to transform your life.
How to marry the idea of crazy & fun & freedom into real, practical, day- to-day life.
Why it’s hard to bring adventure into your life in a vacuum, and how real and powerful friendships are your “key ingredient” for making life itself an adventure.
How to run your career/business, have a real life, go on adventures, and be a great mom … all at the same time … without being frozen by guilt or overwhelm.

Each week we will choose a different topic & invite special guests to share their awesometastic ideas & inspirational stories with you.

Elizabeth Potts Weinstein (aka @ElizabethPW, aka EPW) is a mom, entrepreneur, and crazy adventurer who feels more at home in airports, hotels, taxicabs, new friends’ homes or while tweeting up in bars, climbing a mountain or randomly walking around a city, than she does at the place where she keeps her stuff. She uses her travels as inspiration for her blog & videos, for coaching clients, and for creating new programs exploring how to Live Your Truth in business and life. If you want to follow her particular kind of insanity, check her on on twitter, facebook, or on her blog (EPW: of course you know about that, you’re on my blog right now. lol.).

Allison Nazarian (@AllisonNazarian) is a Mom, writer, empire-builder, author, former introvert, former control freak, future bookstore owner and current NFL junkie and Howard Stern fan who craves the comfyness, safety and familiarity of home while slowly but surely embracing the fun, flow and adventure of life on the edge. Allison writes copy, columns and blogs and teaches others how to do the same. Connect with Allison on twitter, Facebook or at AllisonNazarian.com.