Some days the world passes you by and you are but an observer. Some days the world is on your heels and you can not find sanctuary from it. But then, oh then there are days when the world is at your feet and with each forward step you take, the world and you become partners.

Those are the days that make life worth living. Those are the days when you seek life and in turn life finds you. Seek life. Seek what the world has in store for you and meet it with open arms and open heart. 

Seek. 

Write A Symphony.

Music. Such a simple and yet complex thing. Everyone loves music. No matter what music each of us love or despise, music is what brings out emotion. It can dictate our very mood or rather be our ally when we need a soundtrack by our side. 

We celebrate, smile, dance, ponder, dream, cry, sigh and even cringe to music. It is a part of each one of our days be it either a starring role or a simple back drop. 

Take time to appreciate and recognize the role it plays daily on your life. Take it in, use it to create the energy you want to shape your world with. Ride the momentum of each inspiring chord and lyric. 

Write a symphony. 

Arise.

Perfect situations, perfect days, perfect moments..those are the most ideal times to shine, to ride to the occasion, to be your best. The problem is, perfect only happens every so often. I don't know about you but perfect only happens 10% of the time or even less. 

So when should you give all you have? When should you be at your best, do your best job, push your talents? Today. No mater what the day's tone is. Sunny, stormy, cloudy, boring. Ideal or not..this is your moment whether you like the setting or not. 

Arise. 

Time.

Seconds. Minutes. Hours. It is inevitable. Time moves forward with or without us. When we are in a good place, time zooms by us..we enjoy every moment to it's fullest and can't get enough of life and time. When we are in a place that is not desirable, time slows down..giving the effect of a slow motion weight that snowballs around us. 

Nonetheless, time is going to happen. Life is going to happen and no matter what. Make the decision to take control of time. In the good moments, don't let it go too fast. Savor it. In the bad moments, don't let it hold you back or drag you down. Learn from it. Every second. Every minute. Every hour. Live it to it's full potential. 

Time. 

Practical Logic.

Roadblocks. They are bound to happen. In fact, they are bound to happen a lot. Somehow, even the most rational and brilliant people blank at a sudden roadblock. Stress, loss, circumstance can take the most strategic of people and cause them uncertainty and impairment. 

Some people shut down and become blocked when faced with adversary. Others begin to panic and think only of the problematic side of things. Whether it be a depression and lull when you are stuck or a panic and frenzy when you are flailing..stop and think with practical logic. You only have a few options and in that, you can control the outcome and what you make of it. 

When something bad happens you have three choices. You can either let it define you, let it destroy you, or you can let it strengthen you. 

Practical Logic. 

Cat and Mouse.

There are two categories that we live in. You either are chasing what you desire or you are running and hiding out of fear. What personality are you? Do you like to stay comfortable and live hiding in your safe zone? Do you fear the new and different or run from adversity? Think of the dreams and possibilities that could result if only you stepped out from what is routine for you. Think of how much you would grow and learn if you were to meet your challenges head on and try to conquer them. 

It is scary and sometimes you will fail but in the end, when you learn to stop running and learn to put your self out there and be vulnerable, you might just find that you will gain the courage to become the chaser rather than the chasee. 

Cat and Mouse. 

Turn.

It is far too easy to stay on the same page. Be it if you are in a place that you enjoy and you want to savor the moment and keep things right where they are or if you are paralyzed by your roadblocks and challenges, emotionally or physically unable to move forward. Staying in place good or bad creates an environment where life can not be lead. 

Each day was not designed to be a carbon copy of the other. We are here on earth, living to create movement and story every single day. If you are happy or unhappy. Bored or stagnant. Comfortable or uncomfortable..turn the page, seek the next adventure. Seek the next obstacle. Seek the next smile. Seek the next tear. Seek the next. 

Turn. 

Every Side Is The Right Side.

How we begin our day sets the tone of the entire day. How we live our day sets the tone for our week. As our week turns into months and months turn into years, years turn into the sum of our lives. So how are you choosing to begin your days? Are you allowing your morning and day to dictate the next step for you or are you deciding where you want your start to lead?

No matter what circumstance, what interaction or interruption..you choose your day, you lead your day and you drive your life. Wake up on the right side of the bed and make the most of each moment from there on out.

Every Side Is The Right Side.

Ready For The Show.

Preparation. It is the very thing that gets us ready for where we are meant to be. There is always something we are working on, always something we are are preparing for. So it is more than rewarding when you are on the brink and you get that place that is the next step. All of your preparation, rehearsal and work is ready to be executed and performed. 

It is a moment of anticipation and excitement. A moment to remember and relish. It is a moment to step on stage and do your thing.

Ready For The Show. 

See What I See.

When we were children, we looked at ourselves as invincible, talented and full of possibilities. As we grow, we tend to adopt outside feedback good or bad as our own. The way we view ourselves and the way we interact with others and others view us is what forms our confidence or lack there of. The mirrored image is also what creates our reality.

It is a beautiful thing when we take perceptions of others and use them to build us up or change our behaviors for the better. By doing that, and truly getting a clearer image of who you are as a person and what makes you talented and amazing you shine with confidence from the inside and out. In turn, when  we also listen to the things about us that others perceive as getting in our way or holding us back from a positive interaction or outcome, it is then that we can truly grow and look in the mirror with an unbiased and always growing image of ourselves.

Listen and look..but not just look. See. Truly match your perspective for the world around you.

See What I See.

If We Never Took That Road.

Experiences. Good, bad, in-between..the way we look back at them all depends on the experiences we had with them. With the good experiences, we think to ourselves, "I wish it was still like that..I wish that I could still do that." We all do it, it is the way that I will always talk about when I was a size 2 like it was an hour ago when it was over a decade ago.

With bad experiences we can look back with relief that our experience is no longer that way or even as a martyr that we can not get over that the experience happened to us. These are the experiences that can either grow us or stifle us based on how we choose to use them.

With the in-between..the experiences that are far too easy to forget or to see the importance in those moments. Within monotony and boredom lies some of the best moments that fly under on the radar if we were to just open our eyes.

Good jobs, bad jobs. Good relationships, bad relationships. Nice people, bad people. Being broke, being loaded. Being amazing, embarrassing yourself. Screwing people over, getting screwed over. All in all, we look back on experiences and no matter what emotion it brings, respect the road that brought you to today. If today is amazing, sucks or is monotonous..respect where you have been and where you are today and where you will go. Look back on your path with reverence and look to today, taking the celebrations and lessons from your past road with you all the way.

If We Never Took That Road.

Hold The Key.

Keys. They have so much power and yet we only seem to notice the doors. At a glance, depending on where you stand and what your perspective is..the door can represent a roadblock, an entry to the unknown. It can also represent security from outside elements and privacy. It is so easy to get involved in the outer elements of the door and lose focus of the most powerful element in the situation, the key.

A key is so small and so insignificant at a glance but it is truly the component that can change the entire situation of what the doors significance means to you. A key can unlock a boundary, a key can create a boundary. It is yours for the choosing. 

Are you looking at a door as an obstacle? Are you hesitating on the next step you want to take in life simply because there is a door? Look beyond, find the keys that you have..try them on for size. Empower yourself to find solution and the key to overcome your roadblocks and hesitations. 

Hold the key. 

Leave Nothing Behind.

Fall. The time of year where a new chapter begins and the world opens up to you with new ideas and experiences to behold. It is my favorite time of the year. Filled with possibilities and new directions and this Fall for many of us will give us permission to do the things that we have only dared to dream and align ourselves with who we know we are and our greatest potential.

This is a time where we can take all of our life as we know it with us as we move in a better direction. What have you been only dreaming about? What have you been stuck on the brink of? Break through, bring all you are and all you have. The time is now to begin your new chapter..I can just feel it.

Leave Nothing Behind.

Basque In Light.

Light. There is always light. Be it shining bright, under the cover of cloud or hidden from view but it is always there. As the sun sets where you stand, it rises on the other side of the world for someone else. 

It is easy to feel as though there are times when light has deserted you and bleakness is in it's place but know with certainty that it is underlying somewhere in your life whether you can detect it or not. Search for it, each and every day. Look for the good, the inspiring, the things that bring about a positive momentum in your daily life. Seek out the light, seek out happiness. It is always there. Be it bright and shining, hidden or feeling just beyond reach. 

Basque In Light. 

Star.

Where do you shine? Where do you shine so bright that you feel a rush, a glow, a satisfaction and it comes with such ease? Each one of us have a talent by nature that we excel at. Each one of us in our own unique way enhance and dazzle those around us. 

So now ask yourself, are there times that you do not let yourself shine? Is it that you feel unworthy or guilty doing something that is fun and you enjoy doing? Is it that you fear that others will not see the value of your talents? Is it that you don't believe in yourself? 

Today, allow yourself just a brief moment to let yourself shine. Do something today that you find fun and that you excel at. Do something that you can be proud of and others can be proud of you in turn. Shine. 

Star. 

Don't Get Hung Up On It.

Reverence. You have to have reverence and gratitude for the things in your life make up your past and where you came from. An appreciation and learning from the last few minutes ago that just got you from one simple step to the other to the large stories and experiences of yesterday and your past that brought you to this very moment.

Experiences and stories assist in shaping who we are as people, how we feel about ourselves and others and helps to determine how successful and happy we are. That being said, they only assist in shaping us but when we give them power, they then can define us with or against our wants and will.

So the good, the bad, the mediocre of yesterday and before..take it with you. Learn from it, celebrate it, grow and appreciate..and then move forward with those tools and experiences in your back pocket but on a quest to live today better than yesterday. Make your story move. Live.

Don't get hung up on it.

Pay Gratitude.

The spirit relies upon feeling gratitude and appreciated. Every being's happiness is at the root fueled by feeling as though they contributed and that it was noticed by someone. As a fast paced society, we have all learned to supply the deficit of gratitude given from others and self-supplemented within ourselves a confidence and gratitude for ourselves. 

What I have learned and am constantly learning is that feeling satisfied in yourself..by yourself is simply not enough. As Thank You's become more empty and robotic, standards get raised for what a good work looks like and progression numbs us from simple human interaction there is more need than ever to express gratitude for the people around you and the good things they do. 

Are there people walking around your life that contribute to your day be it emotional, spiritual, relationship, friendship, career..simple day to day things to large things that make a difference for you but are going unappreciated? Are there simple yet heart felt "Thank You's" and "Great Job's" or even "I don't know how I would have done it without you. You make a difference." that you are in debt to people?

Be the change. Pay the gratitude debt you may owe today. You would be amazed at how much that could mean to someone to verbally hear how they are appreciated by you. 

Pay Gratitude. 

Point Of View.

We all see through a different set of eyes. Right or wrong, positive or negative, good or bad..it is all relative. We all have different personality types and a natural instinct to find the downside of everything and blame others around us for our misfortunes or situations that we have gotten ourselves into. 

What if we decided each day to make a conscious decision to fight to see the right in other's opinions even if they differ from our own? What if we decided to find the positive to a negative? What if we decided to take ownership for the role we play in our misfortunes and situations we get ourselves in to?

My mantra when I need focus is "The grass if greener on the other side but if you took the time to water your own grass it would be just as green." I live by this. It is far too easy to want the things that others have tended to and not want to tend our own things to make them pleasing. It is also too easy to get in to the mindset when someone or something ruins our grass to get stuck on blaming and victimizing ourselves rather than wasting precious time fixing our grass with the things we can control. 

So take control of your life. Take control of your happiness. See with a broader pint of view. 

We Need Each Other.

Amongst the daily lives that we all live, from our own personal focuses to the bubble that is far too easy to get involved in that is our life, it is easy to forget that we all need each other. The intricate network of close friends, family and acquaintances that make up our environment are the very reason that we all live. All of those people play a part in molding our daily existences and in turn we all play a part in molding theirs. 

Human interaction is so simple that it is easy to take for granted the power that it holds in all of our lives. 

So what are you doing with that power and how are you going to use that to make your life and the life of other's better? Who can get support from, share with, show appreciation for all they do for you? Who  can you make happy, show love to and make their lives better? 

Today, and every day..reach out and experience the people that are all around you from the ones that make big differences in your life and the casual passerbys.

We Need Each Other.  

Find.

Today. What are you seeking? What are you looking for? Have you stopped dreaming and actioning on your dreams? If you did not have fear, if you completely trusted yourself..what would you find if you gave yourself the freedom to really look?

When we were young, we had no fear of dreaming. We had no fear of creating ourselves. We trusted ourselves and our imagination. We believed in our talents and abilities and even better, we trusted in what we could be if only we believed.

Now, as adults..we dream smaller, action rarely and trust our abilities so little that our dreams never stand a chance to be recognized.

So change this. Let fear go, allow yourself to really explore. What do you dream? What are your talent and abilities? Now trust yourself and believe. What will you find. Who will you be? It is never too late.

Find.