Try this: At the end of this sentence, look up from your screen, do a quick survey of your environment, then come back.
It’s good to do a reality check every now and then, you know. See where you are. Notice what you’re feeling and what thoughts were going through your head that gave rise to those feelings. Then you can decide what you want to do and feel now.
Since you get to choose, let me invite you to include something elevating to pick from. Something that lets you feel relaxed and content. Satisfied. Refreshed. Maybe even grateful. Something that turns up the light inside you.
Maybe you’ll get a notion of something interesting, or needed, or fun, that you can do right now. Maybe you’ll think how good it would feel to give somebody a quick hello, to pour a little oil of kindness on somebody’s troubled waters, to go for a walk with the dog, to tackle a waiting project.
You can choose anything you want. You can even go back to where you were before you opened this letter if that’s what you want. Isn’t that cool? That we get to decide?
That’s what looking up from your screen will do for you. It puts you into reality. It opens the door to new possibilities. It lets you remember who you are, and that you are, and that you have the power to choose and to act on your choices.
It’s freeing to remember that. It’s one of the super powers we humans have. And it’s an awesome power. Our choices, after all, determine our destiny.
Maybe that’s why so many of us stayed glued to our screens. It feels safer than having to accept command of your own life, to consciously interact with reality.
But allowing yourself to get swallowed up in a sea of diversions doesn’t remove you from reality. Sooner or later, reality will catch up with you.
The life you’re living now is the result of your previous choices catching up with you. How your life will unfold in the future – ten minutes from now, ten months, ten years – will depend on the choices you make today.
Let yourself play with the possibilities. If you can’t see any, imagine them; make them up. Small or grand, it doesn’t matter. Then pick the shiniest one and take a step in its direction. Feel the wash of enthusiasm that one step creates. Go from there.
When you decide to put your attention on images and actions that let you feel at ease, alive, and motivated, you open the door to a richer, more interesting and gratifying life.
Look up from your screen now and then. Look around. See what invites your attention. What possibilities are calling you? What kind of tomorrow would you like to create? Just think! You get to choose, to decide!
Wishing you a week of beautiful, focused choices.
Warmly,
Susan