Find your Butterflies
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The feeling of butterflies in the stomach, it’s a love hate relationship. You love the rush it gives you, but there is also that desire to be cozy in that safe comfort zone and you hate the idea of leaving it. Usually butterflies appear when something big is happening. Having butterflies means it matters.
Having butterflies is an important part to living with passion and purpose. So often I’m told, “nothing really gives me butterflies” or “I don’t get excited about anything”. My answer to that is, it is your job to get butterflies about finding butterflies if that is where you are. Be excited about getting excited if that’s all you have right now. Be excited someone reminded you having butterflies is an important part of life and you want to find some. Do you really want to go through life without having any butterflies? Once you find your butterflies, no one will be able to take them from you, which is a natural high that will drive you to find more of them. Imagine your energy and enthusiasm causing that same experience in other people, which is a very powerful thing to share.
You know what I’m talking about. You see someone that is excited and passionate about something and it stirs up something in you whether that is curiosity, interest, or desire to have “that” for yourself. If you have stagnant internal activity, that’s exactly what you’ll get more of in your life. Don’t be bored. Get butterflies.
Organize: Give me 5 minutes
When you walk into any room of your home or office what do you see? Chaos, clutter, a mess, dust, junk, or do you see peace, joy, cozy, fun, and clean? I could use many more adjectives, but the point is to get you thinking about what you see now and what you want to see.
I want you to take 5 minutes right now, in whatever space you’re in and look at specific objects throughout the room. Are they things you really appreciate, enjoy, and use or are they things just taking up space or something someone else could use more than you at this point. Now granted, I have a fairly organized space because this is something I’m passionate about, however, things creep up on all of us everyday and can be overwhelming before we know it. I’ll give you an example of a few things I just addressed in the last few minutes.
I looked around my office and for the most part I saw what I wanted to see a peaceful cozy space. However, I realized a few things on my bulletin board were not really inspiring me, I had a business card holder that I never use filled with business cards it’s just sitting there collecting dust, and several motivational pictures that were sitting on my desk that I used to enjoy, but just looking around the room with this intention made me realize, I’m ready for something fresh.
So in just a few minutes I rearranged my bulletin board to have things on it that inspire me more, I ditched the business card holder, I put those very cute pictures with motivational sayings in a box that I have in a designated spot for future white elephant or give away box that I’ll take to good will. Sometimes things I don’t want I just put by the curb and they are gone in a flash. Try it sometime. People will take your stuff!
Wow, I feel lighter and more inspired in just 5 minutes. I’m looking at new things and I’m already thinking of what else is in my way that I can toss out so freely and know that I’m not wasting resources. I know that I’m the most important resource and with distractions and clutter I’m not my best. So no matter what material item you’re throwing out, it’s not worth what you can feel inside without it if it’s not appropriately serving you.
Golden or Goal Done?
Driving in my car tonight I was feeling really good about getting a lot done, and I had this thought come to mind, “I’m golden” something I say when things seem to be aligned and things in life are running like a well oiled machine. I specifically make myself take note of these “i’m golden” times in order to remember what I’m striving for when I feel like saying to myself “just forget it” when I’m getting frustrated and just want to give up.
So I analyzed this bizarre play on words that I had in the car tonight, and I realized maybe there was something really powerful going on here. I don’t know about you guys, but when I was in school I often had to figure out a way to remember things for tests, because if I didn’t have some creative acronym or silly sentence I would potentially forget it all together. I never did consider myself the smartest kid by any means, but by golly, I could ace a test with my memory and have years of A’s to prove it, so I’m pretty sure there’s something to it. It never failed, I would memorize those acronyms or sentences and it was in my brain for years to come. Which is why I think this article could potentially be the “golden” ticket.
Every time you think about giving up, ask yourself if you’d rather be “golden” or “goal done”. As dorky as it might be to ask yourself that, since grammatically it doesn’t even make sense, mark my words, next time you get discouraged and think about giving up, you’ll remember this conversation and decide you don’t want to be a quitter and maybe, just maybe, you’ll reconsider. You know in your heart it’s not time for that goal to be DONE. That’s just when things start getting interesting. Trust me, I know that’s what’s going to happen because I just hypnotized you! Okay, so maybe I didn’t hypnotize you, but I do know that this article, if nothing else, has inspired you to shoot for being “golden”, which is well within your reach if you simply don’t give up.
I applaud you for all your efforts in whatever goals you’re striving to achieve, and I encourage you to continue to have the courage to keep trying even when you feel like the goal may not be worth it or think it would be easier to walk away. So which will it be, “golden” or “goal-done”? You decide.
