What makes you special? Do you really know?

What makes you stand out? Do you really try?

Look around you… what do you see? Are you a part of the monotony or are you a spark in the crowd?? Do you light yourself up and let others watch you blaze? or… are you a dead match stick waiting for something to spark you?

Many of you just go along life as zombies, your life is very predictable, very comfortable – no ambition, no energy, no interest, no Zest…no LIFE.

You think not? Get up, have coffee, blend with the morning traffic, small talk at the office about the uneventful life and the 9: o’clock news, the 10: o’clock news and the 11: o’clock news, it’s Monday and you’re already talking about Friday. Go home, pat the kids on the head (if you have any) and drop them off to some other activity, head home have dinner and watch t.v. , go to bed and repeat. This is some-body’s life… I know… I mentor hundreds of people, I hear it… its short of being sad. I hear the struggle in their voices, what I don’t hear is the zest – the embrace of the struggle. Yet it is the monotony of life that kills you slowly.

It’s time to wake up! It’s time to Feel, it’s time to cry, it’s time to ache and time to love, it’s time to live in the moment absorbed in that space…the smells, the sounds, the views…take it all in… it won’t come by again.

Allow LIFE to happen to you…live with Zest.

Daisy Says: You are a moving train, whose landscape changes with every breath.

Ultimately, for everyone, there is only one person in the world, and that is themselves. This is not so strange, for we are born alone, and die alone.

It is living alone that is hard.

So the best we can do, and the happiest we can be, is to find another to share the time and, for however long it lasts, we call it Love.

But sometimes, and only so rarely, we are lucky enough to find something of the essence of our being in another person – and that unit is the greatest love, for it knows no barriers.

What you do is supposed to guide you and help you find the center of yourself
excerpts by Jenni Shell

I truly connect with Jenni when she mentions: find another and share. Too many of us seek to find happiness in another, when in fact it is our life that we share, our happiness and our love.

It is our evolution, our expression of self, our space that we share. The deepest sadness is to believe that alone we live…. yet the greatest sorrow is to live a life not shared.

Daisy Says: Live your life, love yourself and share your journey.

I ran into these beautiful words by Oriah Mountain Dreamer, hope you enjoy them too.

It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living.
I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.

It doesn’t interest me how old you are.
I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love for your dream for the adventure of being alive.

It doesn’t interest me what planets are squaring your moon…
I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow if you have been opened by life’s betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain. I want to know if you can sit with pain mine or your own without moving to hide it or fade it or fix it.

I want to know if you can be with joy mine or your own if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful to be realistic to remember the limitations of being human.

It doesn’t interest me if the story you are telling me is true.
I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself. If you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul. If you can be faithless and therefore trustworthy.

I want to know if you can see Beauty even when it is not pretty every day. And if you can source your own life from its presence. I want to know if you can live with failure yours and mine and still stand at the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, Yes.

It doesn’t interest me to know where you live or how much money you have.
I want to know if you can get up after the night of grief and despair weary and bruised to the bone and do what needs to be done to feed the children.

It doesn’t interest me who you know or how you came to be here.
I want to know if you will stand in the center of the fire with me and not shrink back.

It doesn’t interest me where or what or with whom you have studied.
I want to know what sustains you from the inside when all else falls away. I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.

Daisy Says: I invite you to get to know yourself in the empty moments.

The world you are living today is created by the words you speak. Interesting enough is that we can read all the books, and meditate on all the concepts… yet putting these principles to practice is the challenge.

I hear many people say: “I have a problem”, or… “the problem is”. Take that same sentence with the word ‘problem’ and replace it with – challenge. It changes the whole ‘feel’ of the situation! It is no longer a problem with a struggle and a dark road. It has become a situation that can be overcome with effort. Amazing!

Here are other words that we can use to color our world, instead of ‘should’ why not ‘could’. When we say ‘I should start on this project’, it feels like I’m guilty for not having done it. That same sentence when replaced with could: ‘I could start on that project’… using the word ‘could’ gives a sense of empowerment and purpose!

We commonly brainwash ourselves to believe that we will soon suffer Alzheimer’s when we say ‘I don’t remember…’, we say it aloud and our brain hears our voice telling ourselves that ‘we don’t remember’ and we wonder why we feel like we have poor memory skills! I find that the word ‘recall’ is a better choice, it insinuates that at this moment you are not pulling it out of the memory bank and that soon you will call the memory to you versus…not remembering.

Here is a little exercises you can do to hear yourself and the words you use. Record yourself around a family or friend conversation session… (make sure you let the other parties involved know that you are doing this exercises and just put the recorder down and soon people will forget become engrossed in conversation).

Daisy Says: We influence and affect our world by the words we choose.