Decide to Rise
Ok, so its the 1st of a brand new month.
Spring has most definitely sprung, April showers are so last month (someone tell that to the weather please!), life is moving forward in all sorts of exciting and cool directions and then you wake up feeling a bit, well, flat.
Nothing massively has changed, a few little irritating niggles to address but overall, all is moving forward. Yippedy-doo-da-dey.
So I turned to a Poem.
By Danielle LaPorte. From The Desire Map: A Guide to Creating Goals with Soul.
It’s more potent than coffee, more appropriate than a rise and shine G&T. (I’m definitely feeling a Hendrick’s moment, sometime this Bank Holiday week-end)..
Enjoy. I hope it uplifts you too?
DECIDE
Push. Turn up the volume. Go hard. Go harder.
Re-prioritize your aches and pains.
Infuse your sensitivities with courage.
Tell fear to **** right the ****off.
Devote yourself to done.
There are Soul-justified reasons to cancel. There are times to just stop.
This isn’t one of them. Keep going. Show up. Full on. Full tilt. Full out.
Decide to be one of those people who pull it off.
Do what you say you are going to do.
Don’t let us down.
Decide to rise.
Why decide to rise?
Not for the reasons you might think.
In fact theses are the reasons that will make you sick and tired:
Do not rise out of obligation.
Do not rise because of feared consequences.
Do not rise because you think being tough makes you smarter (it doesn’t).
Decide to rise because you want to expand your being, your life, your possibilities. Decide to rise because superpowers are meant to be activated and applied in every day life.
Decide to rise to explore your place in the universe.
TO RISE
On the other side of deciding to rise is illumination, ecstasy, insight.
And the angel of your strength is there waiting, smiling, applauding,
with a goblet of endorphins for you.
Drink up!
When you transcend circumstances you get special privileges.
You get evidence that you are indeed amazing,
and irrefutable proof
that what your heart and mind choose is what
matters.
And you get the deep knowing that life wants you to win.
Decide to rise.
Lean in. Listen up. Closely.
It’s your Soul speaking, and she says,
Get UP!
I need you.
I want you.
I am you.
Choose me.
Lean in.
Listen up.
Closely.
Decide to rise.