SIPHON

Each day presents us with an overflowing cup of potential. How we draw out that potential is a choice.  We can either siphon it out by choosing to focus on a steady stream of negativity (which entails dwelling on the failures of yesterday). Or, we can sip the potential out, savoring the experience of right now as it unfolds, minute by minute.  

Take a deep breath and savour.

SOON

Soon is a place of perfection.  A place where our ducks sit in a row.  Where stars align and every contingency is planned for.  Soon is a list with more check boxes than check marks.  

Soon is what we wait for as our life passes us by.

PATH

Achieving a state of serenity is not dependent on whether people and things cooperate  with us and “start acting right” in order for it to descend on us.  All is already aligned for serenity.  The problem is that we look out to find it, when it has always resided within.

Our perspective, how we look at things, whether we’re the martyr, victim or bully, under-achiever or over-achiever, spinning our wheels or feeling entitled, has everything to do with whether serenity escapes us or wether we know the path to it like the back of our hand.

OPEN

We can’t expect to be received openly and lovingly if we don’t lead with love and acceptance.  The way we lead with love and acceptance is by not being judgmental, by not dismissing someone by the way they look, or the way they act.  We have no way of knowing what’s going on in their lives.  We have no way of knowing who people truly are, what their story is.

It’s not how we would want to be judged is it? 

WHY NOT YOU?

Trials, tribulations, challenges, bad days, failures, why you?  Why not you?  

If we’re lucky, really, really lucky, our lives will have all of these struggles in it.  How else can we tell how strong we really are?  How else can our life be an education, how can it be growth?  

AWE

Each day we should cultivate awe.  Awe is wordless, jaw-dropping wonder.  If you think that your life is not big enough to contain awe, think again.  Look at your children, trees, sky, clouds, birds, your pet.  Awe is all around us all the time.  We really just need to pay attention to what's around us right now. 

DHARMA

It’s about our life calling.  It’s not about our dreams because dreams suggest a certain wishing, a far off vague idea. Dharma is baked in, it’s part of our nature.  But it’s inert, it’s up to us to pay attention and bring it to life.