Whose life are you living?

 

Change is not only possible, it is for certain.

                                                           -Devlyn Steele

 

Put yourself back in your child’s mind.  Think back to a time you played, took a bath, ran and imagined, a time you daydreamed about life. What magical lands did you create in the bubble bath? What did you imagine for yourself?  Maybe some of what you thought about was pure child fantasy--a sports hero, the first person on mars, a king or queen, a world-famous inventor, singer or poet, and more. Regardless if those daydreams were realistic or not they had one thing in common; they got you excited about your life.

 

As you grew up, you let go of the fantasies and you no longer thought about being a king or queen. Yet your daydreams still excited you about your life and future. Graduation or marriage, college, travel or a skill you couldn’t wait to get into. Then the twists and turns of life happened, and you began to live without visions and plans. You lived just the life that you ended up in.

 

Through your disappointments, failures, heartbreaks, fears, and responsibilities, you ended up in your life.  Now you wake up unexcited about your life, you don’t dream about landing on Mars, instead you work at getting through the day and focus on maintaining.

 

Maybe you let yourself get out of shape, it’s been a good while since you had a relationship, or your long time relationship lost its spark.  You worry about finances, health, family, work--happiness is not what you think about. When was that last time you just smiled and laughed naturally as you enjoyed a day? 

 

Do you find your excitement in a new movie, TV, a shopping spree, or a Friday night drink? Is that the shape of your life? Is this what you imagined, is this what you planned and dreamed? Are you living a life you wanted for you? Have you given up your dreams? Have you lost vision of what life could be?

 

Whose life are you living? 

 

I know that there is a way we can move past our fears and disappointments, refresh those dreams and visions, and start shaping life into what we want. Your responsibilities do not have to be constraints preventing you from creating change. It is never too late.  It is never too late to start creating change.

 

You can improve your fitness, your health, your career, your finances, your relationships, your spirit, and more.  It starts with vision.  Once you see it you need to believe it can happen.  Once you have belief in a vision, you develop a plan and then you start putting that plan into action.

 

The changes you want all start from your vision. 

 

I want to inspire you to start seeing changes in your life. This week spend time and start seeing changes.

 

See yourself fit and feeling better in your body. 

See yourself happier.

See yourself in charge of your career, your finances and more.

See your relationships as what they should be.

See the changes you want.

 

Spend time this week having fun just seeing your life in a new shape. See changes as you shower, drive, wash the dishes, ride in an elevator or walk across a parking lot.   

 

Take a minute here and there; see changes; and smile.

 

Don’t ask the how, and don’t color over the vision with doubt.

Don’t worry about the how; just see it as you want it.

Allow yourself to have fun without asking any questions. 

See it and bring smiles back into your life.

See it and have fun with those dreams and visions.

 

Once you can start seeing changes, we’ll work on the how.

If you can’t see it, we can never get there.

 

Allow yourself to visualize changes in your life. Change is not only possible, it is certain. Bring vision and dreaming back into your life and you will shape that certain change.

 

Visualizing changes for you,

 

Devlyn Steele