It's a Full-time Job

This being human is amazing even if it is a full-time job. And it’s not like it’s even a forty hour a week job. It’s all day, every day, for decades - possibly for over a century.

It probably starts the same way every morning. If you’re lucky, you get to wake up when you feel like it, but mostly we wake up to an alarm – either digital or four-legged. We hop, drag or get ourselves pushed out of bed and begin our day.

How do you accept the challenge of a new day? Is it something you look forward to or do you tend to dread it.

Each day is a new beginning, so even if you dreaded yesterday, today you have a new opportunity.

I love that. I love knowing that I always have the opportunity to try a new way.
Being human is a gift we have given ourselves. Do you believe that? Can you see how your life, no matter how challenging, is a gift?

“Well,” you might say, “if it’s such a gift, why does it feel so hard sometimes?”
If your life feels hard, think about this:

Who do you know who has had the exact same life as you? The same experiences? The same joys? The same hardships?

No one.

Your life is unique and that’s because you have something to offer the world that no one else has. Every aspect of your life has made you who you are.

Can you take a moment and look at the parts of your life you don’t like in an honest and objective way? Step outside yourself and be an observer. Where are you being asked to grow? Chances are it’s the areas that you don’t like about yourself or some aspect of your circumstances.

These opportunities have been given to you, by yourself, for yourself to learn from.

“How can I find the solution to …?” is a question you can ask. What’s interesting is if you aren’t ready to find the solution, you wouldn’t have seen the problem.

If you have a situation that has become a pattern not of your liking, chances are there’s a part of you that wants to change that pattern, to move on from it.

There are many modalities to explore the issues you’re looking to resolve. I find doing inner child work is one way to explore what’s going on. Ask your inner child, “who inside is feeling ….?” He or she will reveal itself to you and you can then find out what it wants you to know – where it’s feeling pain or sadness. You can then parent that little one by letting it know it doesn’t have to carry the burden any longer. You can let it know it’s safe and loved.

Being human might not be a walk in the park all day, every day. But we should at least be able to feel the grandness of it and to be grateful for what we have. When you’re grateful for what you have, don’t be afraid to ask for more of it. Let existence know when you’re feeling it.

Allow yourself to feel the immensity and magnificence of your life. Do you get a kick out of knowing that you’re in this life for the long haul? Can you find your challenges to be experiences to grow from?

You chose this life. You’re here now. Each day is a new beginning to a life worth living. Your life.

We, each and every one of us, are glad you’re here with us.