You're listening to The Lively Show, episode 163.

Welcome to the Lively Show.

I'm your host Jess Lively and this blogcast is designed to

uplift, inspire, and add a little extra intention to your everyday.

Hey guys, welcome to the show. I am so excited to be speaking with you today in San Diego right now.

Over the last week or several days I have been in Los Angeles, Venice, Long Beach, and now into San Diego.

I have always thought I wanted to live in San Diego before I left to Europe,

and though I don't know if I'll actually ever end up living here,

it is so wonderful to see this

gorgeous sunny weather and I'm excited to explore the area a little bit more

after some coaching calls later today. So in this episode we're going to talk about an interesting subject that I've been focusing on since I've been traveling and even a few months I would say starting before that as well.

So I'm probably around five to six months into focusing on alignment

over effort and this is something that is different than a lot of stuff you hear

about right now in the online space, especially in the

personal development and business world.

So many personal development and business teachers and inspirers encourage us to do things like discipline, hard work, dedication, stamina.

I grew up playing sports in my childhood, so I was definitely always considered a very scrappy athlete.

I was not necessarily the biggest or most talented and raw talent,

but I would try really, really hard.

And I could get a lot of attention and approval from trying really, really hard and doing things with as much effort basically as I could.

And maybe this is something that you two have been focusing on or have been taught to focus on,

things that focus on effort. And what I've been doing over the last four to six months is start to shift and see how finding alignment

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