We only have so much energy.
A secret of life that we often come to realize midway or closer to the end, is that we get to choose where we direct our energy.
We have a choice.
You have a choice.
I have a choice.
If you could say one thing to yourself, every day, that could potentially change the outcome of your life, both in small and enormous ways, if you simply believed it to be true, it would be this simple truth:
I have a choice.
I can choose where I put my energy. I can choose what I believe. I can choose who I align myself with. I can choose where to allow my power to be expended. I can choose to see myself as someone who can’t do it, or to see myself as someone who is learning how to do it.
I have a choice.
I can choose.
What else can be more powerful?
When we were young, life seemed so open. The options seemingly limitless for many of us, overwhelming to the point that a common sentiment is that of wishing someone would simply tell you what to do.
But if we subscribe to this, searching for our why and our purpose outside of ourselves, then we only delay our journey to our true purpose. We take on the weight and the consequences of other people’s ideas and intentions for us, mostly serving them and not us. We pick up more and more outside of us, trying harder and harder to find what we are looking for, until the truth becomes glaringly clear.
We have to shed it all.
The expectations.
The labels.
The shame.
The guilt.
The what ifs.
We have to unpack it all, lay it down, release it, and walk on. Alone with ourselves, in the quiet, listening to only our voice. The one that we had silenced and replaced with every voice and every opinion but our own.
We have to return to the self.
In the quiet, in the warm embrace of acceptance of our true self, all of the damage, all of the broken bits and scars, and all of the incredible beauty that we painted over with someone else’s palette.
When we are there, in our essence, without anything else to hide behind, and we begin to not only accept, but to love and cherish ourselves, there we finally come to the magic of life.
We truly recognize our worth, our value, our uniqueness, and our purpose.
And once we do the difficult, painful, and long work of stripping down to who we are, and we see the beauty in every bit of us and recognize our true worth, we know that we will never abandon ourselves every again.
Thank you for joining me today, and for allowing me to be with you on your journey. Go to www.drshaferstedronova.com for more resources and to connect.
