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Is your life out of control?
Tired of feeling stressed out and burned out of trying to hold it all together only to still feel like you’re not good enough?
I know what that’s like and it sucks.
I’ve spent most of my adult life striving for perfection, trying to live up to the expectation of others. Trying to be the man I thought my dad should’ve (in my mind) when he left me, my mom, and two younger brothers when I was twelve.
That led to a series of destructive behaviors and addictions that nearly cost me my life. Along the way though I had many wins- getting sober, going to college, getting married and having a son, and buying a home that I still live in today. In my teens my quest for success was fueled by inspirational authors and speakers like Earl Nightingale, Wayne Dyer, and Tony Robbins. I had grand hopes and dreams to one day be an inspirational, author and speaker. For the past few years, I have been living that dream.
Recently, I led a session called the Art of Presence: Pro Marketing and Self Promotion Tips for Authors and Entrepreneurs for the Elk Grove Writers Conference. And last weekend I co-led an all-day workshop with Audrey Kalman entitled the Book and Beyond.
I’m sharing this because a lot has happened in the past ten years since I wrote and published Beyond Recovery. I’ve write five more books , taking on more leadership roles and had the opportunity to share my recovery story to thousands of people around the world.
I just celebrated thrity-nine years of continuous sobriety and am finalizing the updated for a ten-year anniversary edition of Beyond Recovery and at least two more books to that series.
Additionally, I have invested the past three months mapping out a blueprint and strategy for the next thirty years of my life.
In the process, I found myself chasing all the bright shiny objects like many of us do and ultimately came back to earth, back to center, back to my roots that make all I am doing and all I will be dong possible.
Earlier this week I had an epiphany that brought me to tears. It is the missing link – the cotter pin or keystone to making all of these dreams to inspire others and help them believe in themselves come true.
This episode is the first of many that will kick of the next phase of this incredible life I have been blessed to love, sober.
I cannot hide from my faith and belief in a power greater than myself and I must keep sobriety at the center of who I am.
Today I choose to embrace the space between fear and freedom and boldly step into the life I believe I was called to live- as a Messenger of Hope.
I invite you to have a listen to this deep and vulnerable episode and join me as i progress in the direction of my dreams trusting that I do not have to take it alone.
About Shawn Langwell:
Shawn Langwell is an Inspirational Author, Speaker, and Sales & Executive Gap Mindset Coach/Consultant. He has written several transformational books including, Beyond Recovery, Ten Seconds of Boldness and its companion workbook, Morning Motivation, and Chill. He’s also the Past President of The California Writers Club (CWC), Redwood Writers, Past President of Toastmasters of Petaluma. Shawn lives in Northern California with his wife Crissi, Maine Coon cat Cleo.
Find him at www.shawnlangwell.com.