Ready…

For the better part of my life, I have found safety and guarantees in rules. How is it that I now find myself standing in a field with no worn path before me? 

I have tip-toed my way into the wilderness of life as I found that the safety in rules was binding and the guarantees somewhat empty. Motherhood was the agency I needed to look beyond. Aren’t we always braver when we fight for someone else? 

I was determined to be my best-self and I was determined to teach my children that fear is something whose presence we accept, but whose power we deny. If we do not, we will either run from fear or run to it (with the hopes of overcoming it). But either way, we are running. And then we burn out. We cannot pace ourselves for the long-game of life if we cannot pause and catch our breath. 

This journey of mine started to on behalf of my children. I will be forever grateful for their gift. But lately, I’ve taken each step for a new reason. I see that an investment in myself, is an investment in everyone around me. I am reason enough to fight for what I want. I am reason enough to be whatever I want. I am enough. 

As are you.

You are exactly where you are meant to be. Invest now. Now is the only time we have. Listening to our internal voice can feel like a fight, opposing those voices outside of us. But when we align our actions with our true nature, what we find is not a fight, but flow.

If life is a marathon, then the end goal isn’t finishing the race, it’s the training and the journey. Our focus can be on all the things we do, the person we become as we reach the end.