Observation

Observation:

1. Nine hours is a very, excruciatingly long time to be in an office every day
2. I may or may not be going looney
3. I don’t give a damn
4. I match the office walls
5. Low on Vitamin D
6. In love with Yoga
7. Gansta tunes, don’t care
8. I still have a conventional j.o.b

Yoga Love

Just a little yoga-love inspo for you today.

Remember to breathe, soak in beauty, express and live in your joy, harness gut-fear, and be the amazing mortal that you truly are!

See your dreams vividly, and should your dreams be shrinking allow yourself the time to see the impossible as possible. Design a little space to get to know who you are again. Continue being great. Dig deeper, have that hard conversation, fuel that burning fire in your heart. Feed your spirit, eat healthy, move your body. Let go of frustration. Write down your passion and do something to make it a reality.

May every day feel like the weekend.

Take a Chance, Make a Change

We have a chance to make numerous choices every, single day. There comes a point though, when maybe our auto-pilot life becomes comfortable. Boring, stagnant, and comfortable. We realize beneath it all something is lacking. Our joy has been squelched due to the day-to-day demands that we dictate to ourselves. We measure our worth based on checking off the to-do-list and then beating ourselves up when we simply can’t accomplish it all.

That’s a rut. It’s a tough one to admit to, and a stickler to dig out of.

That’s where I was just a few short months ago. I started running – not walking – in the opposite direction.

It was time to take a risk: I have to change and take some risks, here. 

This realization and admittance that I am in fact, not Super Woman was a little hard to come to grips with, but there was truth beneath the surface.

I don’t want to be Super Woman.

I don’t want to be living in chaos. I don’t want to feel overwhelmed and full of anxiety. I want peace and joy.

The contrast between the two are pretty drastic.

That means I have to open my mind and try different solutions to my struggle.

Day by day, my slow changes are really easing my anxiety and happiness is finally creeping in. I do things a little differently now by:

1. Getting rid of excess and clutter for clarity and less wasted time on organizing and picking up.
2. Removing social media from my life so I can focus on myself and what’s important.
3. Thinking positively by meditating and appreciating what I have and where I’m going.
4. Letting go of other people’s behavior and my past.
5. Changing daily chores: I hang clothes to dry, use less dishes and hand-wash when done, put things back where they belong, and let it go when I want to do something else.
6. Eating well helps me feel energized and lose excess pounds.
7. Paying off debt by getting my finances in order and stop useless spending.
8. Daily Yoga helps my body stretch and tone as well as a great way to integrate balance in my life.
9. Being conscious of my beauty routine where less is definitely more.
10. Creating a capsule wardrobe so my style is consistent and less stressful when getting ready and wasting money filling the gaps for sake of fashion.

These 10 changes have taken time. I began slowly and deliberately and have really tried to understand myself and my past along the way. It’s been my saving grace in the stickabilty to a major life change like this one.

Knowing you need to make a change and then taking the plunge can be scary. But there is nothing to fear. You can always go back to the way things were before. I mean, what’s there to lose?

We run things, Things don’t run we

I have this really amazing playlist I made for my yoga practice. It’s not ocean sounds and birds chirping like you would imagine (although, I love that too and need the zen sometimes as well). This particular list has songs like:

Radioactive

Boom Clap

Holla Back Girl

We Can’t Stop

I’m So Fancy

You know, just your basic ‘gettin’ into it’ music. Anyway, I am who I am and I like a little funk and pop while I fold into a pretzel sometimes.

In the middle of my side crow pose, We Can’t Stop by Miley Cyrus came on.

Now, what do me and Miley Cyrus have in common you may be wondering?! Not a damn thing. Except the lyric:

We run things, Things don’t run we

It hit me then that my things: whether it is my material possessions, stress, guilt, shame, fear, frustration, other people’s behaviors, finances: have all been ‘running’ me for far too long.

In truth, I AM THE ONE WHO RUNS THINGS, not the other way around. I am taking the power back to my center. I am taking control back over my heart and mind. I am choosing what I do and what I allow in.

This shifting is monumental and also necessary for change. 

So, thank you Miley for allowing me to get deeper into my poses, have some fun while I sweat, and reminding me that it is WE who run things.