In this episode, Alexis explores the power of choosing change before life forces it upon you. Using everyday examples like habits and choices, she offers insight on living with integrity, taking control, and making decisions that align with your highest good.♥Wild Permission is your reminder that you already have everything it takes to live the life you want. Your dreams matter. You matter.Hosted by artist and permission-giver Alexis Wild, this podcast is your space for quick bursts of courage, truth, and joy. Alexis helps you remember who you are—worthy, powerful, and enough—while inviting you to step into your wildest, truest self.This is your permission slip to follow your desires, trust your heart, and create a beautiful life on your own terms.www.alexiswild.comwww.wildpermission.com ♥ Prefer to read? UNEDITTED TRANSCRIPT BELOW ♥All right, love. It's another car podcast. They gotta come out when they're ready to come out. The words gotta spill out of me, um? But I would love to know, do you like my car podcast? Do you hate my car podcasts? You know where to reach out to me: Instagram or email, right? Website?I'm at wildpermission or hello@alexiswild.com for email, and really, you can reach out to me whenever you want, um. I do my best to reply to folks, and if it's not a really quick reply, I promise, I read it, and I will circle back to you because I really appreciate the time, energy, and intention that it takes to reach out, whether that's with a question, a story, or a dream. I love holding—people sharing, like, holding—that is really quite a gift. So, let me know: are our car shares a happy thing or an annoying thing?What I want to share with you today is a lesson that I think about, and it helps me to make good choices, make better choices. This concept, this way of being for myself, is this: I believe that we will always have the lessons that we need to learn in this lifetime. And if we are behaving in negative ways, if we are doing things that we know are harmful, and we don't change that habit or way of being, then eventually something will happen. And maybe it's quick and setting, or maybe it's long and drawn out, but eventually something will happen that is a consequence of that, or is something happening to finally stop us.For instance, we all know that we should not use our cell phones while driving. And we can decide to change that habit ourselves, or we can continue to do that. But one way or another, somewhere down the line in your life, something will happen that will force you to stop doing that—or will be big enough that you will finally change.So for me, let's take the cell phone example. If I am reaching into my purse while driving and wanting to go on my phone, I often do remember this concept: if I do this, now I'm further embedding this shitty habit. And if I don't change this, this change is going to be forced upon me. And that's gonna suck. It's probably really gonna suck. So I can choose to make that change myself—either way, the result is the same: I don't do the thing. But I can stop doing the thing from my own choice, from my own accord, from my own desire to be in right alignment with goodness, with integrity. Or, I can carry on with life, and the lesson will come. The lesson will come whether we want it or not, because the nature of humanity is to grow. And part of growing is to shed the things that are harming us and the things that don't work.And those include the bad habits, the thoughts that harm us, the actions that harm us, the relationships that harvest. You're not gonna get away with tricking yourself. You know when something is not good for you, and those things will naturally, at some point, shift. Because they have to. If our nature is growth, any type of pattern that keeps us stuck, stagnant, negative, or dying—it can't stick around. Something will happen at some point to get rid of it.I don't know about you, but I don't generally enjoy when crappy things happen in my life. And of course, they're gonna happen because we're human. But we can choose to change these things ourselves. Thinking about this idea, this concept, has really helped me to not reach for the phone and to really consider: do I want to have this change forced upon me? If I am going to make this choice that I know is a bad choice, eventually something's gonna happen. It's gonna force me to stop doing this. I know it's not good for me. I can stop, and that kind of adjusts my life in a way that that little tiny choice puts me on a path of higher integrity and alignment. Because if I'm saying I want to be a person who makes good choices, is inspiring, and lives a life of high integrity, then any little leak—any little leak—is pretty risky to everything else. If I go on my phone, to text, or all the stuff we do on our phones, if I go on my phone while I'm driving, I could get in an accident. I could swerve and hit something. I could kill a person. I could kill ...
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