The Daily Do

Our thoughts are physical, our brains control our body and prolonged stress can create illness from increased cortisol. This so called 'stress hormone' is handy if enduring a tiger attack, it tells every single cell to focus on the tension required to get back. But we're not and this state of high alert puts heavy pressure on our system, our bodies and minds send us signs but, trapped in stress, we often miss them. Then the damage really starts, cortisol takes it’s toll, so finding stillness as anti-stress is for body, not just soul.

The greatest skateboarder in the park is the one that’s falling most, they know the price of their success and that failing is the cost. Falling, hurting, up again, repeat but tweaked this time, over and over and over again until one day, they glide. Accepting stumbles, public face plants, as the way you learn success can help your path to full potential, yes, failure is progress!

You can’t change other people, stop trying, it’s draining you, but you can inspire change by doing what you do."Do as I do, not as I say" helps you more to part with ways that have you telling others how they must behave. We don't try to change others when what we're doing's good, our need for others way to be depends upon our mood!

Really accepting what you’ve got to do can cut the load in half, it’s the resistance, the just not wanting to, that nearly breaks your back. Anything worth anything takes a lot of work, and sometimes there’s nothing quite like just getting in the dirt. Rolling the sleeves up and facing what you’ve got to do head on, actually makes the whole thing easier with your resistance gone.

You are always in the here and now at this point on the time map, where the needle hits the vinyl of exactly where you’re at. And we can’t change the tune played in our past nor jump to some crescendoed crest, the music of your life plays now and you’re free to play your best. There is no conductor, no manuscript that you must read, just an orchestra of possibilities lying at your feet.

Pursuing calm in daily life blossoms into doing more of what you want. Being more of who you are has a starting point. Find this today by waking when you’re reflex is to numb, dive into the stillness where you find all you’ll become. It’s the adding little parts I want to highlight in bold for you, let change be small and gentle and it changes everything you do. 

When you say you’re 'losing it', what’s the ‘it’ you’ve lost? Ingrained in our awareness is that anger has a cost. We all mess up and anger has it’s way of doing that well, we lose ‘it’ for a moment and our better judgement fails. But abandoning your reason doesn’t mean that reason’s gone, turn off understanding and it simply waits to be turned on, lose ‘it’ and ‘it’ remains, it’s you that’s lost your way, regain composure and ‘it’ is found, ‘it’ never went away.

Ah, momentum! Sweet nectar of honouring your intuition, carried on a wave of doubt free focus, flowing on a force field of "I can do!" When you feel a spark of intuition, follow it right away, fan the flicker of inspiration and set it on it’s way. Get the ball in motion just to see if momentum builds, if it’s right, the starting part will feel like it’s downhill. Doubt and fear love hesitation, stagnation dwells on stalling, so when you hear the call of inspiration, listen to it’s calling!

It’s hard to find your balance when being pushed and pulled by life, tough to find the stillness in a worried, busy mind. But stick to daily practice even when it feels futile, through thick and thin find stillness, and you’ll find your balance in a while.

Obvious results are the days end balm that soothes the soul, progress made through action, clear and tangible. When listing your ‘To Do’ today pause before you write, think, "Are these actions or general goals, can they be ticked off tonight?". Goals are not 'To Do' lists, and should not be written here; only write down actions with results that can be clear!