What does it mean to enjoy life? I mean, I realize it’s different for everyone, but is there a single ingredient that we all need? Is there a simple rule that we can follow that will apply to ALL of us? I think that whoever you are, whatever you do or believe, or experience, there is one common thread for all of us. And that is to choose joy. We all need to choose joy.
What are you waiting for? Who’s approval are you looking for before you live your life fully? What if you’ve been looking for permission in the wrong place? Imagine me handing you a cute little slip of paper with pretty flower details and one, carefully penned, sentence in calligraphy: ‘THIS IS YOUR PERMISSION SLIP FROM THE UNIVERSE’. What then? Would you finally believe you actually have permission in this one life of yours to play full out? Would you finally step out of the darkness and into the light? What does having permission give you? What does it look like to you?
I suffer from overwhelm. There, I said it. I get caught up in the way-too-many options that life has to offer. You see, I love the journey of personal growth. I’m constantly looking for that next book to read, that next video to watch or that next course to take. But, it leads to overwhelm. It leads to my head spinning in twenty different directions and eventually wigging out altogether and pretty much getting nowhere. Urggh!
Why would you want to read a blog on overwhelm written by someone with overwhelm? Lol. Because a) I’m in the trenches and I feel you and b) self-awareness, as always, is the starting point for any transformation. So, I reckon maybe we could transform together!
What on earth is a balanced life? How do we achieve something that seems so far-fetched? Almost like a dream. Out of reach. There’s work, family commitments. And somewhere in between all of it, we’re expected to have our lives together. To find balance somehow. Is this just too far-fetched or is life balance actually possible? And if so, what are the determining factors or requirements for a balanced life?
I think if we’re going to look at how to be happy alone we need to ask why it is that we aren’t happy alone in the first place. I think the answer that will come out head and shoulders above the rest is that we don’t want to be left alone with our own thoughts. How awful is that! We don’t like the voice inside our heads. I feel like we need to pause here and think about that. We don’t like the voice inside our OWN heads.
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