Mirrors

I said something last week about how once we declare who we are and what we want in this life, that we better brace ourselves because everything that follows will knock us flat on our asses to make sure we really meant it.

Talk about a lot of "aha" moments with that one.

I get confronted a lot. And I have it that I'm confronted when exactly that is happening and when I am faced with opportunities to either stay the same me I've always been or step out of myself to see something new and hear something differently. My default kicks in quick, and often without me even knowing it's there. Choosing to stop it, get out of it, and see and create something different is a conscious choice that I get to make. And man oh man is it hard to do sometimes.

I had a swift kick in the ass the other night when an opportunity to have an empowering conversation was there and it didn't happen. My frustration and my complaints lingered with me all the following day and into the next morning. That's AN ENTIRE DAY that I will never get back, and I lost my ability to be present to the thoughts that run on auto pilot in my head. It's insanity to me.

But I believe that in life, patterns are created and re-created over and over again to provide a new opportunity to learn, grow, and have a shift in the outcome....if we choose. So I can go through life, encountering similar situations and continue to do the same thing I've always done and have the same outcome over and over again. Or ...I can choose to create a new outcome by doing something different. The smallest of changes can yield the greatest results. It all goes back to curiosity for me. It's about having a curiosity and an open mind that allows for growth and learning.

So right now in this moment, I'm very present to all the human beings in my life being mirrors into parts of myself that I am not always willing or able to see. And every interaction is a possibility. The quote that has been on repeat in my head the last few months is, "When the student is ready, the teacher arrives."

So with that, I have the power to create a whole new world.