How much time this last year was spent in judgement of the people around you? Feeling jealous, gossiping and critiquing what is wrong with the world, our leaders, your neighbors or your loved ones? If we are spending our time in those places we cannot be spending time in our own deepest places, evaluating our character and how we show up in this world.
If we are spending our time in those places we cannot be spending time in our own deepest places, evaluating our character and how we show up in this world.
When I went though my year of cancer, I thought about dying. It was normal, not morbid. I thought about death in a way that my pre cancer, diagnosed self never needed to explore. Two things emerged that were most important if I were to die:
I wanted to know that people truly knew me. That they knew my true character, what I feel is important, my values. That they knew my heart.
That people had felt loved by me. That I deeply knew them and their true character, their values and what was important to them.
If I were to die how could anything else possibly be important to me?
To accomplish this in my life today I need to make sure I AM asking myself what is important, really important, and is this where I am spending my energy? Not what is important on Facebook, Snapchat or Utube, not what is sensational, shinny, expensive and new. What is deep down, under the surface important?
If you are still stuck ask, who is important to me? Who makes me feel loved, supported, empowered, special? What do they do? Now go out and do it back.