Who are you today? Are you mother? Teacher? Colleague? Husband? Sister? Entrepreneur? Politician? Brother? Musician? Writer? Dancer?
Who chooses the label you are wearing? And how will that label dictate how you think, act and feel today? Right now?
Many of us don’t start our days off with a conscious decision to tune in to ourselves and pay attention to how we actually feel.
Maybe we take time later in the day tune in or maybe we tell ourselves we will but we then end up getting distracted with the never ending ‘busyness’ of the modern day world.
When did you last allow yourself the time to consider who you really are?
Try it now.
Ask yourself what stirs your soul. What is it that makes those bright eyes truly burn like fire?
Sometimes we feel ‘stuck’ but we’re unsure how or where to start moving forward. We feel overwhelmed with workloads and commitments and the idea of choosing a new direction seems like another effort that is more challenging than inspiring. One of the key things that I’ve learned in life is that we often tend to over complicate things. Sometimes our fear of the unknown is far more deep rooted than we realise and, although we may complain about our circumstances, we hang onto that fear and use it as a safety net of sorts. Forgetting that there is no safety net in life.
Whilst it makes sense on a practical level to live with a degree of responsibility and respect for ourselves and others, doing so does not mean that we have to let society attach labels to us and then dictate that we must live within the confines of who we are ‘supposed’ to be.
Sometimes we have to just strip back the layers of conditioning and ask ourselves what we really want versus what we’ve been programmed to think we must have.
For instance, Picture yourself on a screen. Imagine the biggest movie theater you’ve been to and see yourself on that huge screen. You . Not an actor who you think ‘deserves’ to be up there, but you.
How do you seem? Happy? Content? Miserable? Frustrated? Look carefully. Be objective. This is the
movie of your life. How will the story unfold? How will the scenes develop?
If you don’t like what you see then ask yourself what you might change? What could you do to make a difference? Critique it. Get a pen and paper and write down what you’d like to see instead. Your starting point is right there.
Don’t hide behind a label. Find your truth. Do that thing. Live that dream. Because life won’t wait for you.
Life will carry on, the minutes will tick tock by and the days will rapidly follow, chased by the months and pursued by the years. Who gets to deliver your dream if not you?
Rewrite the scenes that you don’t need anymore. Develop the plot. Shine! Make the movie of your life an Oscar winning one. A movie that you want to watch again and again because it’s that damn good.
Love, Love, Love
MA.
Credit to Mrs Rose .L
