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Yesterday, I was watching an event from one of my favorite publishing and self-help companies, Hay House. Hay House has been one of my go-to for books and audiobooks that inspire and motivate. Let’s say I need a lot of inspiration and motivation lately.
I realized I haven’t written on this blog for almost a year, which makes me sad. I have let go of things that I love. I have prioritized daily life’s demands and meeting others’ expectations over my well-being.
Although I haven’t read Kris Carr’s book I‘m Not a Mourning Person: Braving Loss, Grief, and the Big Messy Emotions That Happen When Life Falls Apart, her talk was one of the most motivating for me yesterday, besides Trent Shelton.
I love how Kris Carr talked about living your golden years now. Many people wait until they are older or die before they start living the life that they want. Raise your hand if you are one of them. I am. Sometimes, we feel like everything is moving so slowly that our patience starts to run out. We want things to happen now, like magic. Yes, that would be nice, but is that realistic? No.
She mentioned her father’s example of how it took him dying before he finally went on the family vacations because he had spent so many years working to support his family. I mean, we can’t just quit our jobs to live the life of our dreams. But Kris mentioned how many people want to be writers yet never take the time to write. I can raise my hand to that. Hence, I didn’t write anything on this blog and said I wanted to be done with my book a year ago.
She mentioned how we should be like turtles. How slow and steady wins the race. If we want to finish a book, we should write for an hour a day. If we want to lose weight, we must move our bodies and exercise. She didn’t say lose weight, but I’m using that as an example because I have been trying to do that for a while now. It’s that stop-and-start syndrome that we all have. When we just want to be in our pajamas in bed, binge-watching TV or something similar, and not do the work. As someone who works a 9-5 full-time job, I understand the lack of energy and motivation.
Kris Carr did an exercise where she had the audience write down what they want from their life now. Maybe there are things you are waiting to do and putting off, like vacations, finishing the book, losing weight, etc. But the turtle’s way is to take one small step every day. Write for an hour, exercise, read that self-help book to change your mindset, meditate, do yoga, etc.
I’ve also been reading Excuses Begone!: How to Change Lifelong, Self-Defeating Thinking Habits By Dr. Wayne Dyer. The chapter I listened to this morning was all about being in the now. I connected this to the turtle theme and doing things slowly, one day at a time, just moving things along in the present. I love Wayne’s statement: “You won’t find God in your yesterday or tomorrow; God is right here in the here and now.”
So, I will embrace the here and now and the small actions I can take daily to get to where I want to go—to live my golden years now, not when I’m older or dying.
