How To Get Excited About Your Life
Hello sweet love!
This is a practice designed to stretch your thoughts and mind a little, and maybe allow you to see your future with some fresh ideas.
It’s meant to be fun, and is in no way meant to take anything away from any of the parts of your life. It’s more about getting some clarity on where you could go, or where you might want to lean into.
But before we get right into it, I really want to remind us all to not get too hung up on details here.
Try to avoid thinking about all the exact layers and logistics, instead try and keep it fun and fluid and creative – and forget about the details for now.
Let your mind wander around your thoughts like you would wander around a beautiful garden.
Here goes…
I want you to think about what it would be like to wake up and be nobody?
To have no identity.
NOBODY knew who you were.
Nobody had any ideas about who you were and where you came from and what you do for a living and what your personality is like or what you like doing.
I want to remind you not to go into the weeds here, just let your mind expand with a playful freedom and have fun with this. Stay out of the logistics.
And just imagine what would you want to tell people?
What picture would you paint about yourself, your story, your values, your beliefs?
Who would you be if tomorrow you woke up and had to start fresh?
Nobody knew your story or where you came from, or what you had done and accomplished.
Or what you failed at and flailed at and fucked up.
How would you fill in all the gaps in between your efforts and failures and lost opportunities?
If you were telling your story again with the perspective you have today, how would you tell it?
If you were telling the story of your future, what would you say?
If you were telling the story you WANT to tell, what would it sound like?
What would you change about you, and how you identify with yourself and your life experiences?
What identifying pillars would you want to remove, and what would you put in their place?
What picture would you paint about yourself, your story, and your beliefs?
I know from past experiences that some people say they would change nothing, and that’s interesting.
For me, I like looking at things and trying to figure out how I can learn and grow and change.
I like working on these things.
I have done things I don’t like, I have painted myself a story I don’t always love, I have started behaviours and beliefs that have become wired together in my neural pathways – that I wish I hadn’t.
I also let my past really define and influence who I am, and not in a positive or empowering way.
I have let stories I created when I was 7 dictate my self worth as an adult. I have let voices and situations from my childhood and youth drive my beliefs of who I am today, and what I am capable of.
I have let fears rule over me my entire life.
And yes, I also know that this is all just part of the journey of life, AND I have made so many wonderful choices!
This isn’t about that.
I think that it takes creating a new version of yourself, one that you WANT to be, one that you want to WORK at being, that you strive for, to actually find courage, motivation, and desire to change and grow as a human.
So the idea of starting fresh, with a blank slate, is a beautiful thing.
I love thinking about WHO I would want to be.
What would be important to me?
How would I want to walk and live and be in my life?
What kind of person and story would I write for myself?
What strengths would I write into my fabric?
What would make me feel proud of myself, fulfilled in my life, and joyful in my heart?
Do you know why I love this idea? Because when we know who we want to be and how we want to live, we then have something to work towards.
I love that.
From a place of total freedom, a place of creativity and rough ideas, and pipe dreams comes potential clarity of what is really important to us.
When we give ourselves a chance to get creative like that, when we give ourselves freedom to dream and visualize and create new realities… we give ourselves a chance.
And then, we get to choose if we start showing up how we envision ourselves.
We get to choose if we start living into that version of ourselves.
One choice at a time.
And what’s cool is once we’ve gained even a fraction of an idea of who we desire to be, we can hardly help ourselves from leaning into that person.
That person is so enticing and desirable we will start trying to figure it out. We will start seeing things from a different angle, and we will start to, oh so slowly, align ourselves with that version of us.
So, if you woke up, as an unknown fresh person today — who would you want to be?
Paint a picture, write a movie, scribble a letter to your new self, tell a friend, call your coach.
Allow yourself to dream and create.
I want to remind you that I am not saying we need to wipe out our life and try to forget our past or run away from home and start entirely fresh.
I’m saying, we do not need to be defined by our past or by the stories we tell ourselves about our past or by our fears.
We do not need to live into the limitations we have created for ourselves.
We don’t need to hold on to our shame and regrets and hurts from our past, and let those dictate our life and our opinion of ourselves.
These things are not serving us.
They are not helping us live fully and with an open heart that emanates and exchanges love in this world.
So letting ourselves imagine who we would be without them can be the first step in our journey to living free of them.
It can be the first step to actually living as our most authentic self.
It can also just be a fun practice for us to imagine ourselves as our best self living our best life – and feeling that all the way into our soul.
And as a side note, I really cannot understand the idea of “no regrets.”
How can you possibly have lived a life without regrets? Without self reflection and the desire to have handled something differently, and done better?
Regrets are only information for us to grow.
In my opinion our regrets are there to make us be, and do better.
We do not need to deny them or hide them or feel embarrassed or ashamed.
And also in my opinion, to be a person who desires to grow and be and do better, is to be a person who will continue to live into the most fulfilling and joyful life.
Yay!
But, I would love to hear your thoughts on this! So please comment or connect with me on IG https://www.instagram.com/gwenjohnsonofficial/ and tell me what you think.
If you were looking for it, this is your permission slip to create a visual of who you want to be, how you want to feel, and how you want to live your beautiful life.
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You are beautiful in all the ways, you are worthy of all the love and success and joy, and you are already enough.
Kindness for a million days,
Gwen
