There is powerful content and concepts all around us, and all of us walk around generally like impenetrable studs that don’t need any more wisdom in our days…
I don’t mean that critically. I mean it caringly.
All of the answers that we need are already out there - they exist - and chances are that we’ve likely read them, seen them and heard them several times over.
The question becomes… what does it take to truly embrace them, adopt them, live them?
I’ve had a few of those A HA moments… in my life. While I fail everyday at the application, there was a pivotal moment in my life when the idea “The Power of NOW” hit me… I’d heard it so many times before… but there was a day, a moment, when it just HIT me…
THERE is NO PAST…
THERE is NO PRESENT…
There is ONLY NOW… THIS moment…
And ever since that day, the past weighs almost nothing, and the future provides no concern…
NOW is where I live, or try to… but the concept went from simple WORDS to a powerful TRUTH… that changed me.
Well, it happened again this past weekend while I was sailing with a friend.
I am reading the book “Shift Happens” by Joe Mechlinski - a great book worth reading on the necessary evolution that needs to happen in business and in life today.
He reiterates the words I have heard before…
“Life doesn’t happen TO you. It happens FOR you.” I get it - but those words for wathever reason fail to burrow into my soul. It’s a nice thought… but it feels external to me… out of my control.
Then he shares the thought, which again, is not the first time I’ve come across it…
“You don’t HAVE to… You GET to…”
And, those words for whatever reason HIT home with me last week. It’s almost like sometimes when I am reading things - the word almost jumps off the page and into my heart.
I GET TO
It’s so simple, so subtle, and again, transformational…
So much of my articulated angst in life still comes from moments when I feel like “I HAVE TO…” for whatever reason… It’s subtle… but CHOICE is EVERYTHING…
And, ITS TRUE!
What aspect of our life is not BY choice?
We are fortunate to live (the majority of us) in a FREE WORLD… with greater ability to express ourselves than ever before…
We are fortunate enough to live in a time when information is OMNI PRESENT and at our fingertips…
What aspect of your life - do you truly HAVE to do?
Think about it…
The mindset of “I GET TO”… changes the flavor of every moment…
It anchors our perspective both in FREEDOM and POWERFULNESS … and GRATITUDE!
It EMPOWERS our every thougth… while making us humble to the forces and external factors that contribute to our moments…
I GET to live in a FREE WORLD!
I GET to live in a time when our quality of life is better than EVER before!
I GET to have intimate knowledge about multiple cultures…
I GET to have lived and seen so much of the world…
I GET to have 3 beautiful and healthy boys… I GET to have seen them grow up…
I GET to go to their games and their events…
I GET to be present at their milestones… when I want…
I GET to be CEO of a great company…
I GET to work with wonderful, devoted, caring people…
I GET to look out at the horizon from my desk…
I GET to see my family in Peru very frequently…
I GET to love and be married to my beautiful lifelong friend and partner,
I GET to spend time with amazing & loving friends…
I GET to outlive my parents (well… hopefully)…
I GET to still see my mother and hold her and love her..
I GET to figure out how to navigate our company into more growth…
I GET to help my boys grow up…
I GET to … I GET to… I GET to…
EVERYTHING in my life is MY CHOICE…
I CHOOSE IT… and I am grateful for the choices that I have been given by the universe & by my navigation in it…
Every moment that I find myself struggling - I can pivot almost immediately by shifting to the I GET TO window versus the I HAVE to window…
There is a difference between reading the words… hearing the words… seeing the words… even understanding the words…
AND - ADOPTING, EMBRACING, EMBODYING THE WISDOM…
This …
RIGHT HERE…
is THE ONLY moment where I exist…
where I get to love, care, dream, feel, hurt, laugh, BE…
AND - in this moment…
I GET TO…
share my heart and thoughts with you…
I GET TO explore the idea and the power in it…
I GET TO feel the connection…
I GET TO be inspired…
I GET TO choose to end it…
I GET TO go back to work…
I GET TO
keep learning…
and living…
in harmony,
Nestor