It has been a hoot these last days to watch the excitement in Wisconsin at the announcement of a new tourism slogan: live like you mean it. There's been a lot of chatter in cyberspace about how this phrase is or isn't a fit for Wisconsin. The opinions, as one writer noted, are split between dislike and hate. What's the fuss? I personally think if you can and do find meaning by wearing cheese on your head then it is possible to get a grip on how to live like you mean it! So here is my coaching challenge for my new friends up north.
live life like you mean it
As an expert on this subject I can confidently say that living like you mean it is really the only option you have. We don't usually even stop to think about living. We take it for granted, like breathing or blinking. We think it just happens.
I think not.

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Life Coach Challenge: Find out what makes you feel alive and go do that.
Now. To the degree that you can.
Start today. Living requires you to show up and participate. Is it your goal to sit and be a spectator in your own life? Ugh.

Life Coach Challenge: If you don't know what makes you tick, find out.
Connect to your strengths, savvy and personal style. Build your life around what you do best. If you're not sure what that is, start finding out. It helps creates meaning.

Life Coach Challenge: Start today.
It does take both some inner and outer energy and focus to come to understand what holds meaning for you, but that's a journey worth taking.
There is no such thing as too late to make meaning in your life.

In the end, on any given day, you are what you can count on: your place in the grand scheme of things, your gifts, your genius and your assignment in this life.
People are waiting for you to show up.
You are the answer to someone's prayer.
You are here to serve.
Even if that means wearing cheese on your head or smelling the dairy air of Wisconsin!

If you don't know what living like you mean it looks like for you, you cheat yourself, you cheat us and you cheat the rest of the world. And in this day and age, the world needs you.

Life Coach Challenge: Live. Stop going through the motions.
It's the key word.