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Perception Shift : Whose Life Are You Leading?
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Did you ever notice that the word “help” is only one letter away from “hell”? Remove an L, add a P. Sometimes the greatest help we can give ourselves is recognizing when we’ve created our own small hells—those rigid routines we’ve convinced ourselves are necessary, the shoulds that box us in. One gift of working for myself has been learning something embarrassingly simple: I get to decide where I do my work. This revelation took me years to fully embrace. Some mornings I walk first, then write. Other days, I sit in a coffee shop with my laptop, words flowing, knowing that afterward I’ll go for a walk or take a zumba class. Both of which bring me joy. Why did it take me so long to claim this freedom? Why does it take any of us so long to realize that what we think our days are supposed to look like... don’t have to look that way at all? The Myth of the Fixed PathEven when I worked as a Certified Financial Planner—days starting at 6:30 AM and ending at 8:00 PM—there were still moments of my own time. Pockets of possibility. Times I could put down the phone and walk around the block, letting my mind quiet, my body remember it was more than a productivity machine. We have choices. Always. Not unlimited ones, perhaps, but more than we typically allow ourselves to see. Don’t let society, old habits, well-meaning friends or family, or the deadly “this is how it’s always been done” decide something as fundamental as how you organize your time. It’s your life. Your unique and precious expression of the divine moving through you. Yours. The small rebellions matter. Taking a different route home. Rearranging the order of your tasks. Pretending Friday is Sunday and noticing what shifts in your awareness when you do. Finding Sanctuary in the WildI don’t think it surprises anyone anymore that even brief encounters with nature profoundly impact our emotional and mental well-being. Science backs this up—research shows that time outdoors improves our lives in measurable ways, even reducing violence in communities. But for me, walking—even just around the neighborhood watching the seasons shift—goes beyond “good for me.” It’s essential to my creativity. And creativity, I believe, keeps us all sane. Truly sane in a world that often feels like it’s losing its mind. It doesn’t matter how that creativity expresses itself. It doesn’t matter if it matters to anyone else but you. It doesn’t even have to look like what people conventionally call “creative.” One morning in the woods, I found these words as the leaves quaked overhead: “Does the forest care if I’ve sold books today?” And the answer, of course, is “no.” The trees don’t care about my metrics or yours. They’re busy being trees, which is precisely what trees are meant to do. They’re fulfilling their purpose simply by existing, by photosynthesizing, by reaching toward light. What if we gave ourselves that same permission? To exist. To create. To rearrange our days according to what feeds our souls rather than what feeds our anxieties. The natural world doesn’t just refresh us—it reminds us. Of rhythms older than capitalism. Of the way things grow in their own time. Of how creativity and rest aren’t luxuries but necessities woven into the fabric of all living things. Your life is waiting for you to claim it. Not someday when circumstances are perfect, but now. With whatever small freedom you can carve out today. What will you rearrange? Where will you walk? What new order will you try? Nature is calling, and when you answer, you will find your unique expression of life is waiting to unfold like the petals of a flower. Choose The Life You Want To Live!
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While you wait for spring and the flowers it brings, why not take a little time and prepare the ground for your own life to bloom? I wrote this book while watching the seeds I had started in my kitchen, so, in a way, you could say nature wrote it. But first it was a blog, then a talk, and finally a book. It grew, just like a flower. So the question is, is it possible to be consistently happy? The answer is yes. Try it and see for yourself. Purchase:
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Beca Lewis
Shifting Stories and Writing Stories--all focused on the reason perception is reality and practical ways to shift it towards what you wish to experience in your life.
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