Are You Actually Awake?

A Real Checklist for Conscious Living

You can know all the language.
You can quote the books.
You can spot toxic patterns in others from a mile away.

And still… not be fully awake in your own life.

Awakening isn’t an aesthetic.
It’s not a vibe.
It’s not a podcast queue or a shelf full of self-help books.

It’s a practice.
A moment-by-moment choice to become aware — and then choose again.

And in a world built to keep you distracted, numbed out, and looping through unconscious patterns, staying awake is an act of courage.

So how do you know if you’re actually awake?

Let’s start with this…

The “Actually Awake” Checklist

You don’t need to check every box — but the more of these you can say yes to, the more you're living in conscious alignment (not just talking about it).

✅ You pause before you react.

Even if it's just one breath — you notice when something’s activating you, and you create space before responding.

✅ You own your energy.

You take responsibility for how you show up — and stop outsourcing your emotional state to people, clients, or circumstances.

✅ You question your thoughts.

You know not every thought is true just because it’s loud. You’re willing to ask, “Is this mine? Or is it programming?”

✅ You interrupt your patterns — gently.

Instead of shaming yourself for repeating old habits, you meet them with awareness and curiosity. You can see them and shift them.

✅ You feel the moment you go unconscious — and you come back.

Maybe it’s a spiral, a scroll, or a shutdown. But you notice it. And you return to yourself without judgment.

✅ You prioritize alignment over approval.

You’re more interested in being true than being liked. You’re not here to perform someone else’s version of “good.”

✅ You lead from presence — not just performance.

In work, in relationships, in life… you’ve started replacing proving with presence. And when you slip back into proving? You catch it faster.

Awakening Isn’t a One-Time Event.

It’s a Lifetime Practice.

You don’t get a gold star for being woke.
You get a new moment.
A new choice.
A new breath to return to who you really are.

The more you practice this kind of awareness, the more power you gain — not over others, but over the only thing you were ever meant to master: yourself.

So… how awake are you right now?

And if you noticed something in yourself just reading this…
Good.
That’s the point.

Want to go deeper into this work?
This is just one lens of what I teach inside EnergyOS™ — the system for rewiring your inner world so your outer life actually aligns.

Because awareness is only the beginning.
Conscious choice is the real game-changer.

Let’s go change the world together.
— Susanne