Stephanie Harrison

So it's a little bit of a hack.

If you don't want to go through the whole goal setting audit, you can just start acting intrinsically and then seeing where that takes you and following the path as it's laid in front of you.

Basically.

And I know it sounds so simple, but it's actually quite radical in some ways in a world where we're often on autopilot.

None of us are formed alone, for example.

So from the very minute that we're born, we are cared for in order to survive.

We're often doing so many things in order to please other people or to convey a certain impression.

We're completely reliant upon our caregivers in order to keep us alive.

Human beings have the longest period of developmental needs of any species.

Simply saying, what do I want right now?

What matters to me?

What would I like to spend the next 10 minutes doing?

And so every interaction that our caregivers have with us shapes us into the person that we become.

That's all it really takes to get you back on your path.

We know that these early years of life end up forming the neural pathways that we draw upon as adults.

They shape our attachment style, which influences every relationship that we have in our lives.

Yeah, totally.

And like it's okay to make a cake, right?

They teach us how to regulate our emotions or not regulate our emotions, and that impacts every moment of every day.

Maybe you making the cake is the exact thing that you need to get yourself unstuck on a problem.