It's Not Your Birthday, So What!

Your day begins...

And did you celebrate yourself for being alive to have a day to begin? This morning, as I got up, I thought to myself, "Today, I have a choice. I can either celebrate my life the way it is today, what I like and don't like, or continue to wait for another temporary fix of external happiness to pacify me until I claim my own happiness, from the inside out. What's it going to be?"

And I share this with you, dear reader:

Are you willing to celebrate yourself today, just as you are?

Are you willing to celebrate "the good" and "the bad" as equals?

Are you willing to celebrate any unwillingness you may have to celebrate?

As you know, life is happening; are you seeing it as life is living you or you are living life? Today, take a couple of deep breaths and throw yourself a 30-second party that you're here, alive and the only thing between you, what you want, what you enjoy and a moment of bliss is yourself. Get out of your way and let yourself shine. Stop being your own shadow and celebrate yourself today - even for a minute.

Did You Forget? You're Alive!

Have you ever forgotten that you're alive? Have you ever been so caught up in the details and dramas of life, only to forget that one day, you aren't going to be here anymore? These questions came to me when trying to describe the M.O. of a couple of people in my life.

I have made a commitment to learning from every relationship interaction, and such, results in learning from those in my world that I don't want to be like. As I was describing to a friend how I felt when interacting with some other friends, I noticed this sort of entitlement over appreciation with them and in that moment, I got the hit: I think they forget that life is a gift. Now, whether that's true or not, I took this awareness as feedback for myself. I get to own my appreciation for being alive and take advantage of the day to express such joy.

And... this is my toss to you:

Are you willing to see life as a gift and appreciate your life, today?

Spirit Gives Life.

(Check out this Quote:)

We live in a world of form and when you're in the world of form, you get in "form"ation. When you're in the world of Spirit you get inspiration. When you are inspired (in spirit) by some great purpose or some extraordinary project, your consciousness expands in every direction. By moving into inspiration, you can activate dormant forces and make them work for you. When you're inspired, everything works. You don't get tired, you don't get hungry, you don't worry about money, or you don't think about what's going to happen tomorrow. So becoming inspired is probably the most important thing you can do. The way that you do it is you look at the world of form, and all the things around you and you say, where did all of this come from? It all came from the world of inspiration. It's spirit that gives life.

So may you and I be inspired!

- Author Unknown.

Feeling Good Is The Ultimate In Living.

Feeling good is the ultimate in living. How do you figure? If you were to rate your aliveness on a scale of 1 to 10, where would you place yourself? What would determine your number on the scale? Is it what you ate for lunch? What someone else said to you? Does it depend on how many hours of sleep you got last night? Or is it perhaps, a choice?

Actually, a commitment! Well, what does that mean? From complaint to commitment is the name of this game. If I was to rate myself a 2 on the aliveness scale, the first question I would be asking myself is, "I wonder how I can enjoy more aliveness in myself and my life, today?"

And this question, I toss to you: Where would you rate yourself on the aliveness scale (or excited to feel alive) right now? Second, are you happy with your current results? And what would it take for you to rate yourself higher on the scale of aliveness?

Either way, the number you pick on scale is irrelevant, what is more important is how good do you feel, about yourself and life, in this moment? And if you're not exactly pleased with your current experience of reality, then go ahead and make a commitment to feel good. Do yourself a big favor and make a conscious, new commitment to feeling good and having fun, right here!

Despite the story of your life, how you experience it is your responsibility. It's a lot to take on, by just being here, but if your life is worth it, its your choice. Get a better problem and make how good can you feel and for how long your highest virtue.

Be willing to try on the commitment like you would a new pair of jeans, if they don't fit, you just try on another pair. At least you gave yourself a chance at feeling good and being courageous enough to try on something most people think is just child's play, when in actuality, could be the greatest commitment you ever made.

Today, I commit to feeling good and having fun and to doing so in the face of all that might distract me from really enjoying myself!

Life Purpose is Like a Flowerpot!

Have you ever wondered, "is there a reason why I'm here?" I bet you have and it might be too forward for me to assume such questions have wandered through your mind, but I imagine you have had some version of that question come up at least once in your life.

So, have you got an answer? Have you discovered your life purpose and chosen to live it out? If so, good for you, I love the ripple your making here on the planet! In fact, I would encourage anyone living their purpose to go further and really expand into it this year, maybe even get some good life coaching to assist you in expanding your income doing what you love.

If not, to the question, "are you living your life purpose?," then let's talk for a minute. What's up? I imagine if you're reading this, you're at least out of high school and are in some sort of career job or schooling as a career, but why wouldn't you be investing as much time as you work (or the lack of) on discovering and living your life purpose?

Having been working almost a year with Dream Building Genius Coach, Megan Sillito, I can say that even though I haven't fully landed on dialing in what my life purpose is, I feel more excited about life today, than I did a year ago. Why? Well, just like initial question to this Blog post, the reason I am here is more clear today than ever and only I get to determine that. It is my responsibility to humanity to live my purpose!

I have the first layer of my flowerpot made, talk about going green!

There Is No Plan B For Life!

I was caught in a flurry of thought, when suddenly I took a deep breath and realized I was writing up the strategies for Plan B, when not fully participating in Plan A. To be specific, this was playing out in a relationship dynamic I am currently enjoying where rather than focusing all of my energy in my current commitments with my partner, I was writing up a back-door plan, just in case it doesn’t work out and therefore, setting myself up for inevitable failure.

I have been living in “what if,” as opposed to “what is.”

Obviously, I’m afraid and rather than facing my fear directly and with love, I have been distracting myself from my desired result by protecting myself from possible failure without even giving myself a chance to succeed. Oh, how is this ever familiar?

Although this is showing up in relationship, for me, I see how this plays out in every other aspect of life. The invitation: Get in or get out; make a choice to play the game of life fully and follow through into completion. As humans, most of us haven’t intentionally chosen to be here, consciously. Unless we have memory of our previous experience before birth, we tend to feel like we were just spit out on the planet to make it up as we go without a road map.

As a result, most of us haven’t made a conscious new choice to be here and clear up anything in the way of our ability to do so; therefore, we are spending a healthy dose of time in Plan B… whatever that may, depending on your particular flavor. We half-ass our way through life and every activity included instead of really showing up, even if it might be uncomfortable at times. Life is not about Plan B, in fact, there is no Plan B… just Plan A or all the distractions we engage in that keep us from fully enjoying the game of life.

Try this: "I consciously choose to be here and to be alive. "

Or not, but living in limbo isn't very useful. Either way, empower yourself by acknowledging where you are, today, and get clear about where and how you want to play. Then make the choice!