Good morning and happy Monday listeners. Coach Kate here with another episode of Minute Motivations to help get your day, and even your week started too! I host this space weekdays to start your day off with some quotes, some perspectives, and even some explorations to hopefully open your mind for questions, and find what answers are meaningful for you as well.
So Today. Today. Today is not only Monday, but Tax day here in the US. So today I thought we could dive into the things we don't want to do and even talk a little bit about reframing these obligations into joy or less optimistically, even just reframing them into simple acceptance.
We are on this path in life to chase joy and happiness, and not settle for anything but. The truth of it is, life is a balance, a dance within itself. And the sooner we choose to accept the hard, the sad, the annoying even as a part of life, the more we allow ourselves to open the door to peace and acceptance too, and even that joy of the difficult passage. You see, the faster we acknowledge that this is also a part of life, the faster we allow ourselves to carry both the good and the bad. We don't need to carry these things or emotions, we just need to carry ourselves through. Sometimes that looks like acceptance, sometimes that looks like joy, and sometimes that looks like just trying again tomorrow.
Something that helped inspire this talk today, and also helped me finish the mundane task of completing my taxes-- was this wonderful quote by Ram Dass
"you can do it like it's a great weight on you, or you can do it like it's part of the dance"
- Ram Dass
Not only do I love what Ram Dass says here, but I love the idea of thinking of life as a magnificent dance. Sometimes we take steps forward, and sometimes we spin out, but the thing about life that I love most is the opportunity to live it. Sometimes I lead, sometimes I follow, sometimes I don't like the song, or I get a blister and everything hurts-- but if I think of life as an opportunity to dance, I know I'll want to dance it, I know I'll want to live it. The good, the bad, the mundane, the magnificent. And I know, deep down, I'd want to relive it all if I had the chance: the falling in love, the birthdays, saying goodbye, watching those first steps, the heartbreaks- -I'd do it all over again as a dance, even the taxes.
We don't get to choose when we have our happy moments, or our hard moments, but we do get to choose ourselves, and how we carry what we have to carry. So, this fine Monday, if you're staring at a pile of paperwork you don't want to do, or you get stuck in traffic, or if you watch your kiddo win the state championship-- I hope you look at it all as a beautiful thread to your tapestry of life. The setbacks in life help us taste the sweetness of the joys we encounter too-- and all of this can be an exquisite dance if we choose to dance it.
I'm coach Kate, Thanks for listening today. I host this space weekday mornings here on NoomVibe. If you liked what you heard today, feel free to give me a follow. You can also dive into some of my older talks under the talk tab in my profile. A text based version of this talk will also be available under my link in my bio, so if you'd like to get this talk in your e-mail, or to read it later, feel free to check that out and subscribe there as well. I will see you all again tomorrow.
Enjoy the dance my friends.
