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What Stops People From Making a True Impact?

After setting an intention and failing to follow through, it is usually as simple as someone who lacked consistency. But why is it so hard to be consistent in actualizing your goals to the extent that it makes an impact on the world around you and transforms your own life? Why are most people seeming to choose to acquiesce to what is happening in the world? How are some people able to detach any responsibility for the evil that is taking place? How do people get to the point where they see no divine purpose within themselves? They have no motivation, no drive. No dream for a beautiful world. They are quick to accept things as they are. They do not view themselves as leaders or as having any skills or capacity to lead a movement, to build a business, to shift consciousness.


Raileigh Easterling family

A story that came up for me today is a very sharp and pivotal moment in my life. Right before I went full-time once again with my business, Conscious Lifestyle Coaching LLC – and the time my husband and I started dating, with my future husband's love and feeling like I was walking and living a dream, I felt intense Love, my Higher Self speak to me and tell me that it was time to share my story and to live out my truth as a conscious business leader. If I truly wanted to even receive the love of my husband, I had to tell the truth. It is a truth that rocks me to my core. This is not a sob story. This is a mirror of awakening — awakening to make an impact. And this critical moment I'm speaking of was the realization that it was time to choose to live or die: die, as in immense suffering, or perhaps choosing suicide and to leave this earth because the suffering I felt was so severe. Again, it is a truth that rocked me to my core and was gurgling and burning in my throat. It made me weep down into the bones, into my soul. Part of this truth made me see how much my soul had been eroded because of the actions and behavior of my father. And in this spiritual awakening, I felt also the pain of my father…this generational pain that he inflicted on me because it was inflicted on him, and likely to a greater extent. In a way, he showed me grace. Grace is all I want to offer my father, but it is to the point where I would be following in his footsteps. Addiction. Dark addictions. I would sabotage my marriage. I would betray my family, my future children. I saw that I... would likely take my life if I continued to swallow the truth. To swallow my grief and store it deep inside until it consumed me. I knew it would take my life. I had to choose in these moments…. did I want to save my life or did I want to continue to protect the darkest secrets of my father?


I knew that if I chose to speak the truth, he might take his life. It literally felt like I had to choose my life or his in this moment when I decided to choose to love myself. I knew I had to be the one to break this curse. I had to become a public speaker. I had to speak life into myself. I had to speak life into others. And in this way, my life would be grace, would be a blessing, would be a prayer for my father and people like my father, and anyone else who has suffered from hidden abuse… Without losing myself or killing myself in the process. 



I tell you this story, not for empathy, but for inspiration. What is your truth -- the one you have not allowed to breathe or live in the light yet because it would destroy all pain and illusions in your life that you think are keeping you safe. But you know deep down, your bones are rotting inside, and at any moment you may collapse from the grief you deny yourself to feel. Your spiritual gifts, as I have said many times previously, are the medicines you need and that the world needs. It is your truth, the real truth about who you are and why you are here – and the power behind why you are here as awakened loving consciousness, that will motivate and fuel your consistency in making a true impact and to not only heal, but to be great enough in a skill or talent that the world actually shifts for the better because of you.


Raileigh Easterling is the Founder of Conscious Lifestyle Coaching™ LLC. She is a motivational author, poet, & public speaker; a transformational retreat host & mindfulness teacher; and a business & public relations consultant. Conscious Lifestyle Coaching LLC is a sacred space for entrepreneurs, changemakers, and visionaries on the path of self-development, healing, and spirituality to experience transformation and holistic growth.



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