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What Do You Want? The Journey with Fierce Intention
The Journey with Fierce Intention
What do you want? Are you living in the direction of where you want to go?
When was the last time you took time, extended uninterrupted time? With no phone, no Internet, no electronic device, no external noise, music, or interruptions? To reflect on what you really want in your career, your family, your life? Has it been a while since this happened? When did you last spend time with just yourself, listening only to you, and pondering on what you really want?
Invitation for Time with You
No matter how long that has been, be that years, months or weeks, why not take some time now? Why not schedule some “me” time this weekend to reflect and dwell in possibility?
What do you need to do to carve out some quiet space for yourself? To allow you the time to think deeply on what you want? What will help you claim the deeper desires of your heart and passion?
Your Wisdom
Tell me what you learn about yourself. What did you discover? Are there new insights or challenges? Has possibility introduced itself to you in new ways? How will you be and live differently?
What do you want?
How will you live this day?
May you journey this day with fierce intention to live your “one, wild and precious life.” (Thank you to poet, Mary Oliver, for her inspiring poem, “The Summer Day.”)
What do you want? A question of heart
What do you want?
In your heart? In the depth of your soul? What is at the heart of the matter for you? How is the pathway to get there? What is getting in the way?
What do you want in life? Spending time reflecting on what you want is a calibration question of the heart. A heart question you will ask yourself throughout your life.
The journey of self-discovery, uncovering what you really desire in life, is an exciting adventure worth hiking. And hike wholeheartedly with great resolve to keep seeking, keep questioning, keep learning, keep acting, and keep growing into your best self. What matters at the heart of who you are is at the trailhead of personal reflection.
Awareness
Pay attention to any twinge or hesitation. The reluctance may be a clue to a roadblock, or something, or someone, or maybe a part of yourself that is getting in the way. Pay attention to those moments when you feel out-of-sorts.
Likewise, be mindful of the moments when you feel in sync with your soul, when your being and your doing are connected and feel integrated. These moments when you feel at your best.
Embrace the adventure wholeheartedly. The insights, the views, the twists and turns, the encounters with strangers, and friends are all worth the price of exploration, beginning at the trailhead of your heart and soul. Hike that journey with resolve.
What do I want for my life? Why am I not there? – Thomas Merton
What do you want in life?
How is your pathway to getting there?
Make Ordinary Days Meaningful – A Few Thoughts on Spirituality in Everyday Life
Spirituality in Everyday Life
In a previous post I shared the definition of spirituality as having all one’s energy move in the same direction, toward one’s understanding of a higher power. All of life is connected by energy, and the same is true for spirituality. Spirituality is about being connected and aware of how that energy moves in our lives. How are you paying attention to your spirituality in everyday life?
Spirituality is about:
- A desire for meaning
- Seeking to understand
- Listening with all the senses
- Seeing the potential for goodness in everything
- A sense of the sacred in all things
- The capacity to glimpse the infinite in life
- Making the ordinary days meaningful
Sometimes life happens at warp speed. Change is so constant and relentless that we sometimes feel we are skimming the surface, just going through the motions. We struggle to make sense of it all. In these moments when our world happens at the frenetic pace of chaos, there is an ache inside us for something more. We long to slow down enough to savor the depths of our daily living.
Mindfulness
To be spiritual means to be mindful of life happening before you right now. It is about slowing down long enough to pay attention to the strands of the spirit energy woven within the simple ordinary moments of everyday life. When this awareness happens, beauty and wonder emerge, and life becomes a deeper experience of “wow.”
I write this during a week of vacation in the mountains and in front of a campfire. The smell of the fire is like sacred incense, and as the smoke rises toward the stars, I breathe in deep, abiding gratitude.
Where in daily life are you most aware of the spirit energy? (E.g., your children’s smile, a hug from your grandchildren, dinner with your soul mate, watching a sunset, walking barefoot on the beach, etc.)
In what ways are you paying attention to your spirituality in everyday life?
What do you need to connect more deeply with life this day?
The Mindset of Exploration – Be an Explorer of the World and Your Heart
You don’t have to be an expert to be an explorer. Anyone can do it at any age. Exploration is about mindset.
Explore. Traverse for the purpose of discovery. Oh, the places to go!
All around there’s a world courting us with curiosity and wonder. There are also places within us that we have yet uncovered.
What amazes you?
What makes you curious?
Where do you want to go with your life?
Fuel your inquiring mind by being an explorer of possibilities both around you and within you. A movement toward understanding is an expanding mindset. Plus, a bent toward forward thinking equals an energy of expansion.
Do not limit your possibilities. Continue to kindle your desire for learning. Be intentional about your exploration, both of the world and of your heart.
Take time to learn something new about the world. In addition, spend some time in self-reflection and allow new insights to emerge.
What have you learned today?
Is there something you still need to learn?
What are you eager to discover tomorrow?
I welcome your comments.
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