Fourty-Two and Counting
Sitting here on a Sunday morning and while it may look like most as I enjoy an americano and write my latest blog sitting in a local coffee shop, today is a little different, it’s my birthday. You may ask yourself why that fact matters, and while the obvious answer is because it’s my birthday, the truth is I’m sharing it for a reason much more profound.
Let’s talk about birthdays for a moment.
The celebration of the day we come to be. Birthdays can have many meanings to people and the variety of responses when you ask someone about their birthday always blows my mind. Some people hate the discussion all together, they’ll brush off the fact it’s their day or maybe even deny it all together. On the opposite end of the spectrum you have people like me who feel that the day any of us come to be should be the most powerful day of the year.
However you currently think about birthdays, I invite you to put it all aside and keep on reading while I share my thoughts on the beauty of birthdays and why me sitting here writing on my birthday is powerful.
For me birthdays are a few things. They are a moment to really pause and allow us to be present to who we are, why we are here and assess the year that’s passed. They are also an opportunity to get complete with the past. Whether that’s the past year or a chapter or a lifetime, it’s a great moment to really put the past behind us. This allows a wide open space to open in which we can create the future. Birthdays are the perfect moment to breathe deeply and allow yourself to see a new vision for what’s possible and live into it.
For me this practice is year to year. The eve of my birthday is spent reflecting, journaling and working through my completion exercises. I then complete a journaling exercise writing as if it’s a year in the future, powerfully creating my vision for the year to come. I turn on my favorite meditation and fall to sleep with a mind that is programmed for bliss. I wake up rested and alive on my birthday and start the morning with my morning meditation that walks me through visualization and day one of my new future. It’s powerful, peaceful, fulfilling and leaves me feeling grateful and blessed.
The other thing about birthdays is that for me it’s a day where you are the artist, the author, the maker of the day. I remember when I first decided that what I wanted for my birthday was to choose every moment. In the beginning this had me spend the day alone, slowly moving through spaces at my pace, my location of choice, soaking it all in to the fullest. It initially throws people off as what people expect is a party or dinner and their involvement. While I love so many people in my life so deeply I found over time this actually wasn’t how I wanted to spend my day. I didn’t want any organizing of others, planning for people, making sure everyone’s needs were met, and the list went on.
Year after year I got better and better at taking a full day for myself. Some years I enjoyed soft service and sushi. Other years I booked in a new tattoo followed by pizza delivery. There were years where I did want a group dinner and it looked like I booked a space and whoever showed up showed up. Every year I went to bed feeling so full and peaceful and blissed out.
It wasn’t what I did but the action of me being the source of my day that made it feel so good.
This loops us back to my first statement about sitting here on a Sunday morning doing what I do on Sunday mornings which is wake up, tuck in to a local coffee shop and work. Since I discovered how powerful sourcing my day truly is, I have adopted it to every day. A life where I used to get so excited for my birthday knowing that it meant my day was fully mine - is now my every day.
I wake up every morning knowing my entire day is mine to create. That is peace, that is fulfillment, that is fun. (a lot of fun)
So the reason I sit here writing is because of all the things I could do to start my Sunday. It's exactly this, to create and contribute to the world. People ask what I’m doing to celebrate my day and I love to reply that I celebrate my day every day. I wake up every morning and treat life as the gift it is, I breathe deeply and allow myself to check in and create from what my soul desires, always. AND this is exactly what I want for the world and why Best Life Coaching exists.
The world where we act like we have to wait for a birthday to enjoy our life or celebrate makes no sense to me (let alone those who don’t even do that). I have a vision for the world where people allow themselves the time to really go inward and know themselves deeply, know why they are here, and have the tools to wake up madly in love with life and create it every day fully self expressed, going to bed fulfilled, peaceful and free.
So, what am I going to do to celebrate my birthday today? Write this for you as an invitation to shift how you view life and create your best day today.
Will You Accept the invitation?
