Lisa for Real

2.220 A constant delayering

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I have felt like I’ve been hitting a different kind of wall in writing recently. Five hundred and eighty-five blog posts into my daily blogging journey, I am afraid I’ve got nothing left. But the truth is the first few layers of stories and thoughts have been shared and the next layer is waiting to be revealed.

It is like meeting a new friend. We share the general and “safer” stories first to start to forge trust and along the way, try to gauge the relationship to see if it is a safe space. Once that safe space is established, going deeper makes sense.

It feels like the next layer requires a different type of energy – acceptance and a release of control in order to feel more in my power. I never thought daily blogging would create this constant delayering, and what a blessing it has been.

2.213 A different way to manage priorities

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I do not like prioritizing. I hold many many roles, and if I were to take one priority from each role, I would have about a dozen things to rank in order of most important to least.

The idea has never made sense to me. Life is too circumstantial to have a rank like that. My internal algorithm gets way too confused balancing all the things.

I decided to try to approach my priorities like a pie chart. Each priority takes a certain percentage, and adding all of them up equals 100%. At the end of the week or month, I’d like the time I spent on those priorities to equal those percentages.

The idea is still rough but it is feels like a better way to take care of what’s important to me.

365. Get inspired and nauseous

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“We need to seek those moments where we are so inspired we want to throw up” is one of my truths.

This truth always makes me smile when I read it. Maybe it’s because my four year old brain thinks puke is funny. Or maybe it’s because I am so inspired by the sentence itself that I feel nauseous.

You might want to know – why do we need to pursue inspired moments? Because what is life for if not to do things that light us up! (Or make us nauseous.) If we want meaning and purpose in our lives, we’ve got to follow inspiration.

Everything I have pursued that has been worthy of the pursuit has made me want to throw up. Things that truly inspire me cause my body to clench up, my throat to get a tickle, and my stomach to do flip flops.

The world needs more people lit up by life. When we are lit up, we wake up in all kinds of ways. We look for more inspiration. We want to make the planet better. We care about people beyond our circles. Seeking those inspired moments makes us better people, citizens, allies, mothers, friends and so on.

364. Standing in my power

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“We are all knowing, all empowering, all being” is one of my truths.

As I get older, I stand a bit more in my power. I can only do this because I have come to know myself more. And when we know ourselves, we become confident. Even in knowing I’m not the best in something gives me confidence in how I approach that thing.

We are all knowing. We know what is best for us. May Yeung shares this as her truth in my interview with her in All The Things (Season 1 Episode 10). Nothing is more valuable than knowing what is best for us.

We are all empowering. We have that power within us to take life by the reins. I truly believe it is within all of us though sometimes it takes a bit more work and digging.

We are all being. In more or less words, this means – I believe we are human. We have the ability to be present with ourselves. To express and witness our humanity. To be with each other.

Unlike some of my other truths which I wouldn’t universally apply onto others (they can make that decision), this truth, I would. The three parts of this truth are how I see potential in individuals and in humanity as a whole. Anyone who comes across my path has infinite potential. Our experiences may make us feel and believe otherwise but if we can shift our beliefs, we can stand in that power.

363. Get moving

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“Action is better than inaction” is one of my truths.

Perfection is the enemy of progress. In the pursuit of an inspired life, when we feel called to create, we’ve gotta get moving. We learn through creating, even if we don’t have the final version of it completely mapped out. The journey requires action.

This does not mean that we don’t have moments of contemplation or planning. But after we give it thought and the time comes to take that first step, we do it.