I am yours...

"As your - lover, leader, partner, parent, enemy, child, coworker or friend - I will be the lens through which you will focus, filter and experience your greatness, disappointments, fears, anger, hopes, satisfaction, joys, uncertainties and awakening. Use me wisely, I am here for you whether you've consciously chosen me or not."

Tuesday, November 21, 2006

Gabbing on:
"What you need or what you want really does not matter - it is what you have that makes you what you are.

Everyone that experiences you will carry a part of your life story, whether they are family, friend, or foe. There is no one that you can exclude from your life story until you have acknowledged them and find their place in your authentic story.

So whatever I am to you, please understand my value and purpose in your current place and use me - it is only then that I will disappear into the natural space I am intended to occupy in your life."

NEXT POST: "Right here, right now..."

#12 - Perception

"You are more than the sum of others perception of you."

Sunday, November 1, 2008

Gabbing on:
"Despite what everyone thinks they know about you they still only have an approximate awareness of who you are.
You are limitless. You are more than you have ever been and can be imagined to be.
Do not limit yourself to another's judgment of what they perceive you to be.
You are a mystery wrapped in limitless possibility. You cannot be defined or predicted unless you so choose.
Knowing this, if you must choose, choose wisely how you define yourself."

#8 - Rush Rush

"Don't live life based upon an expiry date."

Sunday, November 24, 2002

Gabbing on:
"Slow down.

We unfairly judge our life's success or meaningfulness by how much we've done, how recognized what we've done is and and how much time we feel we have left to do something. This judgment creates an abstract urgency to do things that could potentially give our life meaning. When time is short we hurry to do more which inevitably takes us away from the potential of the moment(s) we are in. In our haste to do what we have not done yet, we miss simple opportunities that a singular moment can grant us for greater joy, healing, learning and purposefulness.

Living with the fear of running out of time has a tendency to skew how we approach our daily activities. Feeling that our life is not measuring up, we move quickly through a high volume of activities who's sole focus are to provide us with a perception of life as valuable. The volume of activities is not what makes our life valuable but instead it is the depth of our engagement in individual moments that increase our measure of life's meaningfulness.

So no rush. Slow down. Live, not 'like it is your last day', but as if this is a wonderful opportunity to appreciate and make something out of the moment you are in.

It is not about how much time we have left, but about how much time you give to the moment(s) that you are in. Being fully engaged in a minute, an hour, a day, a week, has a natural tendency to minimize time as a driver for activities and living. With time somewhat downplayed as a reason for action, life takes on a new light that is influenced by your choices. With no 'expiry date' pushing us to hurry up and 'live life quickly before we run out of time', meaning begins to assert itself into a day that suddenly seems filled with more and more activities of meaning and more and more "time".