A promise? Or a book?
Both!
It started with reading that book: “Loving My Actual Life” written and lived by Alexandra Kuykendall. She called it an experiment in “relishing what’s right in front of me.”
I call it a challenge, the gauntlet has been thrown down and can I do it?
I think so. I’ve been heading that direction for quite some time now. Baby steps. Or how’s about this one? Rome was not built in a day!
The hardest part is beginning, trying to be more positive when everything around you is screaming “pity party”!!
When I got divorced at age 54, I had been well on my way to knowing exactly where I was headed in life. Then the wall of divorce was built around me and tried as I might, I couldn’t seem to find the ladders to get over that wall. I started chipping away at the bricks and mortar of that wall and piece by piece found that my “post divorce” actual life was something that I could love.
Easy? No! Possible? Abso-freakin’lutely!
It starts with beginning to pay very close attention to what you really love to do, what brings you joy? Do you have a goal, a dream, a passion? I do, I have many. Once I started to focus on my needs, vs everyone else’s the possibilities were endless. Not easy, and there are roadblocks, but do-able.
Author of the book, Ms. Kuykendall says:
“I know this idea of paying attention to what I love to do can feel like a luxury, but if I don’t pay attention to it I can quickly move from gratitude for this life to resentment of others’ needs.
There is something wired in each of us that wants to live on purpose for a purpose. Some of our great cultural icons have spoken on passion. From Nelson Mandela, who said, “there is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living,” to Steve Jobs: “You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you’re not passionate enough from the start, you’ll never stick it out.” It’s about something bigger than here and now. It’s about possibilities. And it’s about what we are each driven to work toward.”
What are your dreams and passions? What are your opportunities? Baby steps . . .
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