… but living fully is a determination… an intention and an accompanying presence that will not be swayed by anything outside itself… and one that requires we be awake, fully present and both willing and able to engage.
Living fully is no small feat in a world of mediocrity and complacency. That’s not rhetoric but the cold, hard truth of what stands between me and my enlivened existence! What we’re up against and what it takes to live a life worth living. Being alive – breathing in and breathing out – is not living. We can be hooked up to a device that can do that for us. Is that what I want in my life?
Living fully is MY choice! I choose to engage at full tilt, recognizing that not everyone around me wants the same for themselves. It is in those moments that I choose wisely who I spend my time with; who I choose to be in conversation with; and the very nature of those conversations. Am I willing to mindlessly repeat what everyone else is saying? No! Am I interested in saying what will appease and ensure a profound lack of discomfort for myself and others? No! Am I willing to allow one nano-second of my life to be invested in what I hold to be drivel? Not on your life – and certainly not on mine.
More than ever, I am clear that I am looking for The Ten – those 10 women whose hunger to awaken and stay awake is greater than their fear of being different… of standing alone… and of the unknown. Those 10 women for whom living demands living fully – living large and living meaningful and potent lives! They are willing to be seen and heard for the truth of who they are. They speak out and stand up for what they believe in. They live decloaked lives…. no pretense or hiding; no hiding behind pretending to be who or what others think they should be but living the simple truth of who they know themselves to be and more, to be capable of becoming.
These women know what it means to ‘build it and they will come’. To go first. To run where others fear to walk. They know that lies and betrayals are far more damaging than any truth could ever be! They know that ‘playing it safe’ will only get them more of what they’ve already got – and that does not reflect who they know themselves to be.
They move forward in their lives because that small voice inside says “GO!” – and they do. Second-guessing themselves and looking to others for agreement or approval is not in their strategy for living. They trust themselves more than they fear the judgement and disapproval of others. Their own opinion of themselves is more valuable to them than that of anyone else. And their lives are living proof of the value of trusting themselves!
I know that those 10 women are there – and that I’ll find them before the end of 2008. I also know that each of them already is profoundly contagious in the authentic expression of who she is; and is already the attractor for the 10 women who will come into her life! And so it goes…. I find my 10; each of them finds their 10; and so on and so on and so on. Who says we can’t change the world?? Who says that each of us… the I AM that we are… can’t be the defining presence that profoundly shapes and creates a new world? Who says we’re not enough; that we’re not up to it or up for it; that we’re too small or insignificant to change the world? My life is living proof that none of that is true!
Who else is willing to choose living fully? Who else is willing wake up and stay awake, becoming the attractor for others who are desperate in their restless and agitated sleep to discover how to wake up? Who else is ready, willing and able to find their 10… who will each then find their 10…. who will shape their world?
Playmates. We all need playmates. I am seeking those who desire to discover themselves to be an awakened presence in a deeply sleeping world; to become the disturbing presence in a world that profoundly needs to be perturbed!
The power of contagion of an awakened collective. We already know the effect of contagion of a sleeping…no, not strong enough… a comatose collective. We’re currently living it! I, for one, deserve more and better.
Breathing is good…
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