423: How to Live in Sync with Your Inner Compass

The Simple Sophisticate - Intelligent Living Paired with Signature Style

Shannon Ables

Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Education

4.7 • 944 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2026

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

My niece is graduating from high school this year, and as an aunt, it is a practice in letting go and trusting the amazing person that she is that she will find her way in life. If I were her parent, it would be different, as there is more direct support involved. This has been a great practice in exemplifying what is talked about here on TSLL: Living with intention, having clarity, being loving and kind while honoring our integrity in all interactions, but not clinging, controlling or manipulating. Our life is our own, and every other person has their own life journey to travel.

Often, when a younger generation is reaching a milestone we too have passed through, we project our experience onto them, errantly making assumptions that we know what they are going through, what they will want and need. But the truth is, while the fundamentals may largely be the same, just as the fundamentals for surviving as a human being are the same for each of us – fresh air, water, sleep, food, shelter, etc., the details of how life will be lived to be fulfilling and enriching for each individual will be unique to them.

Now, let's flip the script and examine the journey as the journeyperson trying to figure out their path forward. How do we find ease with where we are going and how we are living? It often can be easier to tell others how to live their life than to examine whether or not we are living well our own. So the question then becomes, How do we know, without knowing, that we are heading in the best direction for our life journey?

Let's explore the four approaches to incorporate into our daily life to ensure we are living in sync with our inner compass.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the simple sophisticate, where in 2014, this podcast premiered, and now in its 12th season,
0:10.0	the show continues to focus on the same principles it was founded upon, the art of living a life of quality over quantity.
0:18.0	Topics range from creating an everyday life you love living, strengthening mindfulness
0:22.9	practices, building a capsule wardrobe, preparing seasonally delicious meals, traveling and exploring
0:29.2	France and Britain, and living life to the fullest as you courageously honor your true self,
0:34.8	because living well really is quite simple once we know the skills of
0:39.3	cultivating contentment. I'm your host, Shannon Ables, and whether you're listening while
0:44.7	you're on your commute, exercising, working in the garden or art studio, in route or returning from
0:50.4	that dream destination, or sitting down and savoring a hot cuppa or a cafe au lae. Thank you for
0:57.1	tuning in. Let's get started. Welcome to the 423rd episode of the Simple Sophisticate. And today we're
1:06.1	going to talk about, and in today's episode, we're going to talk about what it is we do in our daily life
1:11.4	that ensures that we remain basically in stride or in sync with our inner compass. And it really is
1:20.3	quite simple, but it's the conscious awareness of how to do it and what it is that we need to do.
1:26.6	So we're going to explore four ways to ensure that we're
1:31.8	regularly in line with our true north, basically, our inner compass, our true self, whatever you
1:38.1	call that indicator that you are engaging with life in a sincere way, who you really are at your core,
1:50.2	what brings you to life, but you are also giving to the world in a way that is nourishing to you,
1:57.0	knowing that you're not being unconsciously swayed by any influence that you may have been in the
2:03.5	past, but now you're more aware of it. So that's what we're going to explore today. And this episode's
2:08.2	Petit Pizier is a spring dessert that is absolutely delicious. And a twist on a dessert you may
2:15.2	have made many times before, but this upgrade is just going to knock your socks off.
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