We are all guilty of playing the game of Hide & Seek in life. There is an ebb and flow of hiding and seeking. It is how we choose to live out life. “Hiding” in the past, or looking forward and “seeking” into the future.

You have two choices in how to live your life.  You can live your story of who you are, hide behind that, or you can choose to seek and live your vision of who you are.

You can live according to your story. What’s your story? What moments did you let define who you are? What labels do you wear? What limits have you put on yourself?

When did you stop being who you were born to be and start becoming who someone labelled you to be? Lazy, fat, incompetent, worthless, spoiled, shy, crazy, selfish, untrustworthy, unloveable. When these labels are thrown at us, oftentimes, they stick. We accept them as truth.

In doing so, we become what we have been labelled and spend our lives hiding behind our labels and finding reasons to support that these false labels are true.

As we ask, the universe will provide. If you hide behind the label “lazy,” you will live as if you are lazy.

As if this is who you are essentially are. Not because one day, in a moment of frustration, tired and not being able to effectively communicate that she really needed your help with something and instead of explaining it to you, your mom got frustrated and screamed, “You lazy good for nothing little sh*t, you are useless!”

And BAM! That’s who you became. Those words landed on you, and they stuck. And here you are 20 years later, living up to that title.

Living life as it comes to you, doing and asking for as little as possible, enough to just get by – make it through another day flying under the radar.

One little question – “What’s WRONG with you?” – and all of a sudden you are headed down a path of self-discovery, spending years and thousands of dollars trying to figure it out. What IS wrong with you? And then spend even more of your time and money trying to fix yourself.

But what if you choose the other way? What if you choose to live your vision?

Instead of being defined by your past or what someone spoke over you, you CHOOSE who you are. YOU decide. And from this moment on, that is who you are.

And you live your life seeking your vision. Moving towards the ideal you, that you envison yourself to be.

Doesn’t that sound fantastic?

It does to me! Why? It opens up a sh*tload of possibilities that didn’t even exist in your old story of “lazy good for nothing little sh*t” you.

Like you were told as a wee child, you CAN be anything!

July 2014 Issue