Giving Yourself Permission

Have you ever watched a patch of cloud drift across the sky, riding the breeze like a surfer riding a wave?  I was mesmerized as I just happened to look up at the right time to capture this grand vision, today.   I had decided to sit and work outside while the sun was out even though it was still quite cold and breezy. To do this, I had to bundle up several layers deep …

hats and hoods, gloves and sweaters and sweats and socks – (notice the plurals here).  What a chuckle those passing by probably had if they caught a glimpse, for I’m quite sure I was an amusing and entertaining sight to stumble onto – even I was laughing at how ridiculous I must have looked.

I’ve been doing a lot more of this – the doing what I want, when I want thing, not concerning myself with how I might look or what others might think.  It is so freeing – why didn’t I do this sooner?  My uptightness has been worn away with time as I am learning to relax and allow. Life is not supposed to be hard – any of it. That might take a minute to accept but it’s true! We are not meant to struggle or chase ANYTHING whether it’s abundance, health, relief from pain (such as grief) or more love in our life … just relax and visualize what you want and then open yourself to receive, and it will come … easier said than done, I get it.

It wasn’t so long ago that my life was chock-full of chaos.  Climbing my way to an esteemed position in my 38 yrs. career, I immersed myself in my work (only to later find the emptiness of it all) I took my personal life for granted, not giving it much attention because it didn’t seem to need it.  My work, on the other hand, was incessantly needy – always some crisis or supposed obligatory project that couldn’t wait.   When I finally saw that no matter what I did, there’d always be another work dilemma that needed me, I decided to reroute my energies so that I could reacquaint myself to ME and regain a personal life. As I look back, I now see that having kept so narrowly focused on work prevented me from being present and joyful in my ‘real’ life. It’s a good thing I woke up. It’s a good thing I can see more clearly now. It’s a good thing I have decided to put me first and selfishly live the life I want to. I now apply my energies to being present as I create my now moments and the blissful future I intend to live.

We are living in a time of great awakening – can you feel it? Mandates of yesteryear are being challenged by countless many who are finally stepping into leadership roles for themselves. It is said the mark of a great leader is one who will question or even break a rule if it doesn’t make sense, doing something different to bring about a better outcome. I see a major shift in values and the way one thinks beginning to take center stage for a collective group of these bosses. Are you one?

Boss / Leaders don’t wait for approval to step into Take Charge Bosshood, they give themselves permission. To be the leader in charge of your life, you must shut down the negativity committee (whether coming from inside your head or from your outer circle of influence) and refuse to be deterred or thrown off course from this rousing of self-awareness and take chargeness. Make a commitment to yourself that everything and everyone now take a second or third row seat to your wants and wishes. No one … NO ONE is going to know better than you how or what will make you happy. Be open and willing to seek and effect change because real awakening means taking a serious look within to find YOUR truth and then follow your passion. If you don’t know what your passion is than you need to take a minute or a day to figure this out. WHAT DO YOU LOVE TO DO – forget whether it is realistic or not. Following your bliss – however well-worn the cliche, is still the surest way to living a successful, satisfying life. And finally, begin taking steps – big or little – toward all this. If there was ever a time to make a change in your human being experience, it is now. And, if you’re one that still feels you need permission to step into your life of independence than consider it granted …

I am more and more awake each day as I continue to flex my personal self-powers of alignment with my Universe. I love living in an existence I have a hand in creating. Most certainly, I am and will continue to be a work-in-progress, happily acknowledging my spirituality and transformations of growth but that is what I came here to do – live and learn … we all did. So, while I ride each of my delicious self-empowered moments like a horse on the beach (or a cloud in the sky).  I will no longer resist whatever it is I desire, whenever I desire it, I give myself permission to have, do or be … and clearly, I don’t care what I look like while I’m doing it 😉