Home
They say home is where the heart it. Well home is where you feel most comfortable. Whether it's where you grew up or another place that you moved to along the way. The most important thing is that you find that place. The one that makes you feel safe, secure, that you can put down roots and thrive. If you are not in that place well it's time to figure out where that can be. Your environment is so important to your growth. Have you ever really thought about what the expression, "home court advantage" really means? That's where a team is at their most comfortable and so they have their best shot of winning. Well so do you as long as you are home. If you have not found that place yet, here is your push to get going. Life is waiting for you to thrive and to win. So listen to you heart, it will always lead you home.
Move the Bar
The time has come to move the bar - higher that is! You've gotten stuck in being ok with mediocrity. You have convinced yourself that where you are is where you will always be. But you are worth so much more than that. If you don't raise the bar, no one else around you will. So it's time. Time to get clear on your expectations. Time to realize that you are worthy of so much more. Time to weed out everything that is not allowing you to reach a higher place. It's time to only allow yourself to be surrounded by people and things that will lift you up, not keep you stuck. So go ahead - move that bar as high as you can reach and watch your life transform to meet you.
Play
Life is not that serious. We make it far more stressful than it needs to be. We lament over the past, worry about the future, and stress about the now but for what exactly? At the end of the day you will never meet anyone on their death bed that would say I wished I worked more or stressed more! So why wait until the end of your life to realize that you had it all wrong? You must infuse play into your life; it's essential. It brings out your creativity, your laughter and a deep sense of joy. It makes you present in the moment and excited about everything around you. It makes you see things in a whole new light. Watch kids play and you will quickly remember what it felt like to live in a state of imagination and possibilities. So go ahead, this is your permission to let loose and play!
Be You
Stop trying to be someone other than who you are. You are you for a purpose! You think the way you do, laugh the way you do, react the way you do all for a reason - it's what makes you, well you! It takes a lot to of energy to not be who you authentically are so stop trying so hard and just embrace yourself. Stop comparing yourself to your friends, to family members, to your neighbors, to others on Facebook or even to your co-workers. The world needs you to show up as yourself every single day. You have so much to give but you can only do that by being the real you. You know the one. The you that laughs at inappropriate moments. The you that cries at touching commercials. The you that loves science fiction movies. The you that wears white after labor day. The you that watches the OWN network. The you that lacks a filter at a staff meeting. The you that breaks out into song every 5 minutes. The you that people stop in a random store to ask for advice. The you that dances in the living room in your pajamas at 8am. The you that spends your free time visiting dogs at the shelter. The you that doesn't believe in the word no. The you that orders out for dinner. The you that takes a short cut during a 5K fun run. The you that arrives late to a time management workshop. The you that watches shows in marathon form. You know this person, right?
We are meant to be different.
Embrace it.
Enjoy it.
Celebrate it.
Now go on and just keep on being you!
Do the Work
For life to shower you with abundance you have to do the work. There is no easy way around it.
If you have a dream, you need to take the action steps to make it happen.
If you need to move on from a toxic relationship, you have to be the one to pull the plug.
If you need to change careers, you have to send out your resume.
If you need to publish a book, you need to start writing.
If you need to move, you need to start packing.
If you need to heal past pain, you need to unwrap the hurt.
If you need to make connections, you need to start telling your truth.
Doing the work is the hardest thing you can do but it also the most rewarding. You will never be able to fully manifest what you desire without getting real and walking through the fear. Once you do, your life will be more enriching, more abundant and more fulfilling then you could have ever imagined. Don't be afraid to do the work that will move you to a much higher place.
Listen
Life is speaking to us constantly but we tend to not hear it. We might pause for a second and say, "hmmm, was that a sign?" and we continue about our busy day not really paying attention to the meaning of all of the things that jump in our path.
These signs are just that. They are clues and markers to keep us either on our path or to encourage us to change course. They often are subtle and come in whispers so we tend to push them aside. Well what if we not only recognized them but paid attention to them? What if we listened to the whispers every single day of our lives? What would happen? Well, we would live our purpose. We would live our dream. We would fulfill our destinies. We would be in sync with life in its truest form. Somewhere we forgot that we were not put here to study, work and pay bills. We are meant to live - really live. We are meant to feel. We are meant to experience. We are meant to connect and above all, we were meant to love. Love everything from people to life itself.
Let this be your permission to listen to the whispers, to acknowledge the signs, and to finally start living your purpose.
Trapped
Sometimes we feel trapped. We feel trapped in our jobs, trapped in a relationship, trapped in a friendship, trapped in a situation and cannot see the way out. But what if feeling trapped was only a state of mind? What if the way out was right in front of you and had always been there? What if freedom was as simple as making a different decision?
We are really good at getting stuck, for whatever reason, and now we are going to get great at breaking free. It's our time to unshackle ourselves from EVERYTHING that does not serve us, that does not bring us joy and that does not allow us to reach our fullest potential. Go ahead, feel around for the doorknob, it's there. It's just waiting for you to turn it, open the door and run!
