Finding Your Why

Life Altering Change starts with Finding your Why

Let me start with the process of soul searching that I found myself going on as I started the process of finding my why.  You would think your why would be obvious, and in some ways it is, but it requires a deeper level of questioning.  A ‘big picture’ kind of thinking.  On the surface my why is easy, it is my family!  Family time, as much as I can get of it!  When you think about the shortness of this life experience and the way we spend our time, the percentage of it that is spent with the one’s we love is a sad statistic indeed!  So, yes, a big chunk of my why is family.  After all, they are the ones we do it all for!  They are the ones that matter at the end of the day.  They absolutely should be our why!

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Exploring your Creativity

Do you struggle to see yourself as creative?  Is it time to start exploring your creativity?

This is something I have struggled with most of my life.  With a super creative family I have often seen myself as the one that got the ‘raw deal’ in the creativity department.  I have agonized over the beautiful paintings, sculptures, hand-made clothes or woodwork that my family seemed so proficient at.  Nothing I ever did could meet the standards they had set.  In MY eyes!  They always recognized my creative side, it was me that didn’t see my own value!  A sure sign that I needed to start exploring my creative side.

We are all different and we express our creativity in different ways

While I could get away with a half decent pencil sketch, I was terrible at painting and useless at molding anything into a recognizable shape.  Lol.  What I’ve come to understand now is that there are different types of creatives.  My parents and sister are the hands-on kind of creative.  They are the ‘artists’ in the family.  They are good at painting, woodwork, pottery, you name it!  I was never good at these things and it bothered me!  I wanted to be able to create things with my hands like they did.  But, my creativity is just different to theirs.  My mind works differently, and I see the world in a different way.  I don’t have creative hands, I have a creative mind.  A storyteller’s mind.

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The Value of Connections

In the world as we know it, do we even recognize the value of connections?

The internet is overflowing with useful and useless information.  We are faced with split second choices on what offers us value.  Constantly.  I mean constantly!  I cannot tell you how many times I have started reading a blog or watching a video only to click away with a heavy sigh realizing I have wasted precious moments of my life.  Now this might sound mean and that is not my intention.  We all have different motivations and what works for some might not work for others.  That is one of the beautiful things about life, there is a place for everybody.

But, we can also get stuck searching for ‘our tribe’ and get lost along the way.  My very long-winded point here is I don’t want you to feel like my ramblings are a waste of your time.  I want you to feel like you have landed on the page of someone as real as you are, who understands that your time is precious.  Don’t get me wrong, I’m gonna ramble!  That’s what I’m here for!  But I hope my ramblings will include words that make you feel at ease, understood and hopefully inspired to live your best life.

So often we look at what separates us instead of what connects us

I want us to see those similarities and remember we are part of one big family.  The world would be a different place if we all learned to see each other more as ‘the same’ rather than as ‘different’.  We all love, we all hurt, we all dream and we all hope.  If we could recognize this in each other what a difference it could make!  Imagine if we didn’t hide our emotions.  We would immediately know if it was time to back off or time for a cuddle.  But, we have been suppressing our emotions for so long we don’t even know how to read each other anymore.

Having emotions at all is almost unacceptable.  In the work place we act like robots, our shields well in-tact.  By the time we get home to our families we are so tired of the façade we literally break down and our emotions are released like a flood.  But, the truth of the matter is, if we showed them more we would more easily accept them.  And, accepting our emotions is the starting point for being able to express them.

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