What are you grateful for?

…I was asked the other day during a session where for q change I was in front of the camera.

My Life, I said. And I meant it.

I’ve been working hard on learning to accept, to balance, to change what is no longer serving me and manifest what I actually want. It is an outgoing process, but if we’re not happy and appreciative in the now, we won’t ever feel it, even if achieved.

I am guilty of chasing achievement and when I reach it, the next goal is already in the far distance, waving at me. A constant chase, an illusion that “one day” when I “get there” I will feel complete.

No.

If it’s not now it’s never. Because we only have now. And the now in the previous sentence is already the past. The moment is now and the moment passes in an instant. Nothing in the future will fulfil you like the gratitude of what you have NOW.

Now is everything we have, yet we live disconnected of it looking forward or backwards.

What are you grateful for now?

Who would you call now if this was your last phone call?

Get up and do it again

Ever felt like there is no point moving forward? After all the effort, time and dedication to get to here, still you’re not yet where you thought you would be, so why not just give up and call it a day?

Because you can't. Because there’s something bigger inside that even the darkest time and the hardest road can’t fully convict you to stop.

Get up and keep going. This is not the end. It’s darkest before the dawn. Nothing lasts forever and all that comes into your life is there to teach you, to prepare you to where you want to go.

Just Like Lenny Kravitz sings, it ain’t over until is over…

What is stopping you is you

It’s easier to blame the outside - circumstances, people, the era. It’s easier to pass the responsibility to something you can control. It confirms the secure of the ego - remain the same to feel safe.

This is not what you came here for. This is not why you went through all of those challenges life threw at you. No. You are born for more and you know it.

Once you decid the change that you want is in your own hands, you will also see how many tools you have collected along the way. Skills, people, environments - all you need is right here right now for you. Would you grab it, use it and transform, or would you remain the same?

Would you still be you if you could choose?

In an ideal world, where you ca be anyone you wish, where money weren’t a factor and you would do anything you want, would you still do what you’re doing now? If you could choose, would you still be the person you are today?

Pain is inevitable, however it offers us a queue jump ticket to the growth we actually need. Happiness is great, yet for every achievement a certain discomfort is required. If things were all well all the time nobody would’ve move, make a difference or accomplish anything else. It is not necessary to wait for the extreme pain to force you to take a different road ahead, but it is necessary to decide to make the change.

And so, if you’re truly being honest with yourself, could you say you are being the most authentic representation of yourself right now? Do you spent your time working just to pay the bills or dedicating your time on something you care deeply about that you would do even if you weren’t paid for it?

It’s uncomfortable to go against the commodity, yet more painful on the long run if you haven’t. Life goes by and what we do affects us. Big shifts are easy to see but all of them are result of a small steps. Drop after drop. Step after step. Only at the end we can connect the dots and see the whole picture.

Are you doing something today that will help you get where you want to to keep you staying in the familiar reality?