Living in the Now
I grew up in a small town surrounded by tractors so it will come as no surprise to you that I listen to country music. Now don’t get me wrong I love some DMX and other old school rappers but country music is really how I was raised.
Cody Johnson has a song 'Til You Can't, and he talks about putting things off and having too much on your plate to make time for the things that truly matter. That is the perfect reminder that we need to take action and we need to do it right now. We need to stop waiting to live our lives. We need to make sure that the people in our lives know how much we care. We need to take chances and chase our dreams right now. We need to be present right now.
We need to stop waiting for a special occasion or the perfect moment.
We all do this. We think when I hit a certain landmark everything will be great. WHen I lose 5 pounds, when I get a certain job, when I have a certain amount of money in my bank account. But why are we waiting? Why don’t we live our best lives right now?
We need to wear our diamond jewelry just because it’s a Tuesday.
Sometimes we fill our lives with mundane tasks and to do lists. We overbook our schedules and then we miss out on opportunities.
We forget to be intentional and to live our lives fully in the moment.
What if you knew that you only had a certain time frame left? How would you fill your days? How would you show up as the best version of yourself if you knew that you only had today.
Would you rearrange your schedule and shift your priorities? I guarantee you would. So why do we show up every day and not live the best version of our lives?
So today think for a moment about the best version of you look like? How does she dress? How does she act? How does she treat her family? How does she interact with a stranger on the street? Who does she make time to connect with? How does she make sure that the people in her life know that she cares? How does she take care of herself?
Each day we have the opportunity to create our legacy. Some days it doesn’t feel like that. Some days it feels like we are just trying to make it to bedtime. But you deserve so much more than that. You deserve to be more than surviving.
You deserve to thrive! You deserve to look and feel your best every single day! You deserve to live the life that you want.
If you needed permission to live your life the way you want to - this is it right here!
What step will you take today to make it so that you are the best version of yourself and that you are living your life to the fullest?
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