This Is Your Life
- Kelly Wagner
- Aug 1, 2013
- 4 min read
Updated: Aug 6
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So. This is your life. Think for a moment about the circumstances you're in, the people that you have day-to-day contact with, the relationships that you nourish and the roles that you play.
Child, sibling, parent, partner, employee/executive/entrepreneur, volunteer, friend, neighbour...
In the life you're currently living, are you who you want to be?
The lyrics for the song that inspired this post, written and performed by Californian alternative rock band, Switchfoot, contain a surprisingly small number of lines but they do include this one simple and thought-provoking question:
"This is your life...are you who you want to be?"
My hope for you is that you are. My hope for you is that you're happy with your current set of circumstances; that you feel blessed by the people with whom you have day-to-day contact; that you're engaged in relationships that feel mutually nourishing and fulfilling, and that you're deeply content with the roles you play at home, at work, and out there at large in the beautiful big wide world that we live in.
If you're not all of those things...my encouragement for you is that you can be.
Indeed, you can.
It begins with gratitude. Rather than looking at and focusing on all the things that you're not, or on all the things that you don't have or that are missing from your life, focus today on all the blessings that you do have, right now.
Perhaps that's something as simple as a pillow on which to lay your head at night. A roof over your head. A healthy child. A loyal pet. One good friend. Running water. A hot cup of tea.
Focus on all the good things that you are, and all the good things - large or small - that you have done. Focus on the good intentions within your heart.
Who you are today is the result of who you were when you were born, combined with the influence of all the experiences and relationships that have come your way thus far...and as shaped by the decisions you made (or didn't make), and actions you took (or didn't take) in response to each and every one of those experiences and relationships.
Who you are tomorrow will be the result of all the experiences you choose to engage in and all the relationships you choose to nourish from here on in. Who you are tomorrow will be the result of all the decisions that you make (or don't make), and the actions that you take (or don't take) today.
"Today is all you've got now. And today is all you'll ever have."
Every single day, you get to reinvent yourself.
Each morning, you open our eyes to a brand-new opportunity in how you choose to approach your life, how you show up in your world, in the decisions you make and in how you treat the people around you.
Each morning, you open our eyes to a new possibility for how you treat yourself.
You get to decide on which form of inner dialogue you choose to engage in with yourself: one of love, kindness and encouragement, or one of dejection, disappointment and hopelessness.
You get to decide if you will listen to the call of your soul, whispering to you about what you need in order to thrive; about what you need to give...and what you need to be willing to receive.
You get to decide if you will say and do and choose things that will nourish, fuel and sustain you, or whether you will say and do and choose things that will drain, empty and deplete you.
Whether you will stay in relationships or jobs or living conditions that do the same.
You get to choose.
Stay conscious of the kind of person you want to be, and then in each moment, make the right choices: the ones that 'the you that you want to be' would make.
Because this is your life.
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