Getting Excited About Life
I just returned from a fabulous 3 weeks away in Greece. Time to return to “life”. The question about how we become excited about life has been plaguing me. Not one to feel a great degree of excitement about too much anymore, I know that I really do want to feel excited to set my feet on the floor every morning, loving every second of what I’m doing. How many people already feel this way? No doubt there are a few, or are there? Is it even possible to sustain such a level of excitement about life that there’s no time or room for moping?
I am starting to think that getting excited about life is a process, like everything else. First, we have to define what it is that excites us. This should feel more than satisfying and tremendously rewarding for us and maybe even others. Next, we have to create and incorporate through various steps and means and on a daily basis, the events that bring us the joy that fuels our excitement (can’t get excited if you’re not feeling happy). Next, we have to maintain an attitude of flexibility, gratefulness and determination to keep the flow going, letting nothing get us down or in our way! Every step requires that some type of action must be taken every day towards creating and meeting the goals that carry us toward our dreams. Creating and meeting these goals should feel exhilarating, full of possibility and maybe even daring. We must feel confident putting forth our intentions to the universe and then surrendering all attachment to the process, trusting that what we need will appear at the right moment.
Getting excited about life requires thought, organization, skill, planning, courage, confidence, trust, humour, leadership, enthusiasm, participation and constant management. Sounds like a lot of work, doesn’t it? In some ways it is. Our lives are a project in many ways in which all details must continuously be overseen by us at the helm (not unlike managing a work project worth billions!). If you think of yourself in this way I guarantee it changes the picture. As I’ve said before and I’ll say again, we are our own best guarantee of the life we want.
If we don’t get excited about our own dreams because we’re paying too much attention to other people’s lives, it is easy to get stuck in the doldrums and quickly assume we’re not worth anything ourselves (think celebrity magazines). I believe there is a correlation between idolatry and inertia, which can lead one to feel depressed and unmotivated. Celebrity media insists we are interested in the lives of others. We shouldn’t be. We should be interested in our own lives, summoning up all of the excitement that millions of people pour into the pages or web sites devoted to idolizing a select few. While it’s okay to follow news, gossip tweets and so on for fun or as I call it, to numb the mind on occasion, it’s not okay when it begins to interfere in the management of our life.
Making somebody else’s dreams more important than your own has damaging consequences. It’s easy to adopt an attitude of them versus me (i.e. thinking that wealth and luxury is only for the select few). It isn’t. Anyone can grab the pie! You just have to start with a dream that excites you, believe you are worthy to receive and make a move!
My heart to yours,
Vonne
