I’m sitting on a balcony in the old city in Panama. Every sight and sound and smell is new and novel.
The people below me are living their lives
How long does it take for the magical to become mundane? How quickly do we get ‘used to’ the extraordinary things that surround us?
Lean in. Look everywhere around you for wonder. Invite it in constantly. Now. Now. Now. And again, now. Share it with people you love. Know that even in the darkest times, magic and enchantment are there to be found.
I wish you a day full of being in the right now.
It’s the last day of September today.
WHAT?! WHERE DOES THE TIME GO!?!
It turns out that time goes exactly where we put it: firmly in the past and in the future.
Time ‘flies’ because we are so rarely NOW.
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The best way to keep that from happening is to decide to pay attention to the right now; to be enchanted right NOW. You can’t be enchanted later. It’s not even possible.
Go ahead, try it right now. Be enchanted later...
I got inspired today and re-wrote my instagram/twitter bio.
The first time I wrote my bio (back in the day), I wrote it a bit timidly. The next time, a bit more bravely. Once I even wrote it audaciously.
It felt good today to write it confidently. Keep showing up. It matters.
If we keep leaving our dream out there in some distant future, it will never get the chance to change us. Our ‘future’ self will just be an older version of us now if we don’t show up today and begin to live our dreams today.
That thing you want; that thing you have said you want, or claimed you want, or even written that you want...
have you committed - really committed - to it on the inside?
Craving connection, depth, and honesty. Seeking conversation with full responsibility from both sides. Wishing to know what YOU think - not what you were told it was okay to think.
That sounds like a dating profile, but really it's just a being human thing.
You whole life changes when you you realize that it's not that everything happens for a reason, but rather that you get to decide the reasons for everything.
Life changes because choosing empowering reasons for everything that happens to you radically shifts the whole "game".
Your wants and desires are the seeds for the next wants and desires. And when you follow what delights you and makes you bloom, you will become mote and more and more you.
And more you makes more magic for everyone.
“When we bloom we become generous.” ~ Caroline W. Casey
Never think that what you want is too small or too selfish or too simple. Never think that it’s too big or too much or too audacious.
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"...there exists a universal law that anything done with full commitment carries within it the seed of good fortune." ~ Richard Rudd (Gene Keys)
What is your relationship with 'full commitment'?
100 days from today is the end of this calendar year and the beginning of the new one.
What happens in your body & mind when you read that?
What would it take to feel great about it?