About
Living authentically and without apologies.
Seizing the day and the moment because tomorrow is not always promised and there is no better time like the present.
Going forward, creating new things, new ideas, new ventures, breathing new life into hopes and dreams that were once shattered.
Rejecting the status quo and choosing to life according to your terms, defining success according to your definition.
Laughing just because. Dancing, jumping, skipping. Taking time to look up at the bright sky.
Being excited for no apparent reason.
Taking time to feel the wind against your face, the water between your toes and every now and again taking walks in the sand.
This is the space for people who have chosen to live…I mean truly live, not just exist. If you are like me, you have realized that the problem with the rat race is, even if you win, you’re still a rat.
At some point, I forgot how to laugh. Somewhere between compiling spreadsheets of incoming income and outgoing expenditures and being frustrated with the outcome; I lost that part of me that would fall in the freshly fallen snow to create a snow angel.
While cutting calories, I cut out the fun of enjoying chocolate ice cream on a hot summer day. I became the rush Queen, rushing here and there. There was never enough time and yet too much time. Spending the week waiting for Friday and then spending the weekend dreading Monday. I did what I was supposed to do-even what I wanted to do, so I couldn’t possibly be discontent I reasoned. I had a good degree from a good school, a job paying six figures, a home that I purchased myself, 2 cars and wasn’t even 30!
Each day I battled a commute that no one should have to endure. Sometimes taking up to 2 hours to go someplace 25 minutes away. I spent my days mad, frustrated and miserable, I felt stuck with no way out. I wanted to quit my job and find something more filling, more me. I didn’t want to rush anymore or loathe Monday morning…life is too short for that. I wanted to walk in the sand, feel the wind on my face and take time to be in the moment instead of just rushing through it. But how could I? With a mortgage and other debt? What about retirement or health care? I was deep in the system, with no foreseeable way out.
And then I realized, the same thought pattern of thinking that got me in this mess won’t get me out. So I needed a new way of thinking a new perspective. I needed to reject the things that I thought were the “right” things to do and replace with those things that give me peace, joy and contentment. No longer conforming, no longer buying into what people say I should do or what is hot and trendy. And then I realized what God was telling me all along…true happiness and life is not found in jobs, or houses or things but in the mind and heart of the person who is not afraid to live authentically.
