Did you see Adele on Oprah?

Did you happen to catch Adele in concert last week? She did a two-hour solo concert which included an interview with Oprah.

The music was powerful and I was enraptured by her story as tears often rolled down my cheeks.

I have written about Adele before. You can read that blog post here if you are interested.

So many people want to make her story all about her weight.

As she said in her interview, the story is not about weight.

She lost some weight. And someday she might gain some weight.
What her story is really all about is the journey she took to find herself.

She left a marriage where she wasn't happy even though it was the last thing she wanted to do. She explored a troubled relationship with a father who drank. She spent time by herself and with people who love her.

And now, she is in a relationship where she said it's the first time she has loved herself first.

Loved herself first.

That is what the story is all about. Loving yourself first.

It's amazing the myriad of ways that we can find to distract us from even coming close to that. We shop, we eat, we drink, we numb.

For some reason, it seems so much easier to do that than to do the work to really set ourselves free.

That's why I love stories like Adele's because it's a great example of what we are really here to do.

We are here to find ourselves and be the most authentic version of ourselves that we can be. From there comes everything else.

Money, relationships, and health all come from us showing up as the truth of who we are. That is our only job.

I also just finished Rich Roll's book - Finding Ultra and it's the same story. This is not about a man who lost weight. It's not even really about the physical feats he has accomplished or about how he eats.

The true story is about how a man found himself and choose to live true to himself and stop pretending he was something he wasn't.

Once he uncovered and allowed who he really was, he found all kinds of greatness there as evidenced by the joy and level of engagement he now experiences on a daily basis and shares with the world in his popular podcast.

This is what this work is really all about.

In Rich's book, he also describes the training method his coach came up with to help him train for the Ultraman race that he wanted to compete in.

The training protocol was "slow down to go fast."

This is the exact same protocol that is required to find ourselves. This is not a 30 day for a new you. It's not a quick fix or a fix of any kind.

It's a discovery process. It can be painstaking. We might not even know what we are looking for. But we are never going to find it if we don't take the time to slow down and go within and start to ask the questions that are going to lead us to our answers.

Going from diet to diet is running away from the true solution to what is really bothering us. And what is really bothering us is all the ways we are pretending to be something that we aren't and we are selling ourselves short in the process.

Pretending is painful and requires lots of comforts to ease our pain.

But we don't have to suffer. We can be free.

It starts by making a choice. Am I going to keep running or am I going to turn towards myself and see what I might find? I can promise you won't be disappointed by what you discover because I already know that every single person is powerful and magnificent and capable of being and doing anything that their heart might have been wanting all this time.

Everyone has the power. Everyone is amazingly unique brilliant and gifted. And when we all let that light shine without apology, oh man, what an incredible world that would be.

There is unlimited energy that can be found when we tap into our true selves. It's available to all of us and is already within you.

Are you ready to connect to the truth of who you really are?