Oh my goodness, I was setting up an appointment yesterday and I realized that February is right around the corner – wow! And how did January get so fast anyways?? For me, the adage “Time flies when you’re having fun” applies right now- I think January is flying by in part because I’m not watching the clock – I’m having fun in the moment!
The fun part and the hard part are actually one and the same right now – I get the distinct honor and privilege of starting my coaching business over again – which is both overwhelmingly exciting and overwhelmingly overwhelming at times! If I didn’t have Isagenix as my superfood, fueling my enthusiasm and passion, I know that the energy I need, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually just wouldn’t be there. I was flying high the other day, caught up in the moment, excited by the nearing completion of the book publishing process and all that is to come with Isagenix and my coaching business and realized that I had exactly $87 in my checking account! How easy it would be to stay stuck, to stay focused on what is missing, but instead I feel a sense of deep gratitude for exactly where I am right now. This ability to focus on where I am and where I’m going instead of the past, didn’t happen by accident…this ability is something I have been working on cultivating, it has been a deliberate action….one that only became possible by allowing myself to first and foremost…breathe!
What, you may say, does breathing have to do with gratitude? Or you may be thinking that my gratitude isn’t gratitude at all but some form of delusional ability to ignore the reality of my life – instead focusing on some intangible dream. Breathing into myself, into my purpose, into my life on the deepest levels has allowed me to take the steps and do the hard work. Filing bankruptcy and admitting temporary defeat financially was far from a place of denial – the physical action of turning in your vehicles, selling off your real estate assets one by one, laying off your employees, going through your house to find things you can sell on Craigslist to get enough money together to restart your business – these are not things that can be done from a place of denial and delusion. Those are all things that come from facing the hard facts and seeing the reality of your life. But allowing yourself to acknowledge who you are at the core and what you want from your life, slowing down long enough to breath into those basic questions, is what creates the fertile soil that you grow your life deliberately from, from there.
My call to action for you today is the breathe into those basic questions for yourself: what do you really need in your life to be your best self? What do you really want your life to be about? If we don’t take the time to slow down and do this, time may still fly by but not because you’re having fun – but because you are living your life unconsciously, going through the motions of what you think your life needs to be about. That, I would say, is the form of denial that we really need to be on guard against: denying that we have the ability to be grateful no matter what, denying that we have the ability to be deliberate about the life we are creating.
