Practice Patience but never stop Doing

"Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience" Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is nothing like watching the clock while at work. It is completely discouraging and draining. Every hour that passes feels longer than the last. I scroll through my entire IG timeline. I check my FB notifications. I read through my emails. I've done everything except work. I then look through pictures of my bubbly baby and wish I could be at home with him instead of here in this cube.

The beginning is difficult. All we envision is the future...future success, future achievements, future happiness. The hardest part is not knowing how long we must endure this moment in our lives that feel like forever.

How many years must you work in this 9 to 5? How many years must you maintain an entry level position until you can move-on to greater things. How long will you work for someone that doesn't know your name but sees you more like a disposable budget? How much longer will your paychecks give you just enough each month and never more than enough to spare?

It's all about:

When will this happen?

When will this change?

When will this go away?

But when is the piece that needs to be forgotten. When is the piece that is least important. It is easy to speed through time in your mind. But no matter how far down the line you envision, six months from now, a year from now, three years from now, time will move as it may. The life you want to live has to start now and not a second later.

If you want to increase your income, ask for a raise, apply to another position whether or not you’re qualified, monetize a hobby part time, have a yard sell and get rid of the unwanted things in your life. If you want to live in a more aesthetically pleasing environment, paint a room, hang-up pictures, rearrange your furniture.

It’s not about waiting for the things you want in your life to happen. It’s about making them happen wherever you are. And as you integrate all the things you want in the future right now, you start to see it become part the present.

I am a sole believer that the more of what you put in your life, the more that it will come into your life. If you allow drama into your life, the more drama will follow you. If you increase frustration in your day, the more frustration will take hold of you. On the other hand, the more peace you practice, the more peace will find you. The more love you give yourself, the more love you will receive from others.

The world has a way of knowing exactly what you want by listening to what you choose to keep in your life. Plant the seed of what you want in life and allow time to enhance each and every one of your desires.

But remember, a seed must be sown in order for it to grow. Sow your seeds now, not later.

Feel Free,

Mel

Inspiration and Inconveniences: Why You Should Welcome Them Both

It’s at 2 a.m in the midnight hours that I want to do something productive. It doesn’t matter that in approximately 1 hour and 26 minutes a new born will be interrupting me with a cry of hunger, or that I should be sleeping because I have to wake up in 4 hours for work. Inspiration has no sense of time or circumstance. It comes like a gush of wind and when it does you can’t just jump off the wave. You must ride it out.

No matter how much structure you put in place, life is filled with a whole bunch of inconveniences.

What do you do when you’re doing one thing but something yanks you to do something else?

Now if you’re sleeping but are urged to work on your passion, that can be an inconvenience you invite into the present. But sometimes it’s the opposite. You’re working on your passion and something less exciting but more demanding grabs your attention: your job, an important phone call, or a crying baby.

This situation can be frustrating but we all have responsibilities that must be taken care of whether or not we're willing.

You may have said, if I had more money I could pay someone to take care of this, that and the other. Then I could spend all day practicing my craft, meditating, working out, or just getting things done that I actually want to do.

But we all know life is not that convenient. As much as we daydream, as much as we decorate our ideal future with no problems or distractions, and fill it with infinite bliss, that is not a reality. Life is messy, uncomfortable, and forever compromising with time and desire.

Don’t get ruffled when inspiration or inconvenience hits. That is a sign passion is brewing inside you and life has not forgotten you. Your existence matters to someone or something other than yourself and you must answer whenever you are called.

Take each as it comes and give great energy, effort, and attitude towards both. When frustration rears its ugly head, squash it. The things we must do and the things we want to do must find its place in each and every day.

Feel Free,

Mel

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Why you shouldn't get mad about time lost

It’s 6:30 a.m and I overslept. My son is supposed to be fed and out the door by this time. I also should have pumped by now. I haven’t been up for one whole minute and my day is already an hour behind. So what do I do next, I push everything that should have already been done to the next hour. I make it to work but don’t have my wallet and the parking lot only takes credit cards when all I have is cash. Luckily, I find another parking lot but now I’m officially late for work. Thank goodness I don’t have to clock in or out so my money isn’t affected but my schedule is pushed back even more. I catch up with coworkers and shuffle through my email backlog that will never become up-to-date. It’s now 10 a.m and I haven’t done an ounce of work or pumped an ounce of milk. At this point I’m feeling thrown off my game, irresponsible for oversleeping, anxious because I know how much work is on my desk but I need 30 minutes to pump. (If you know nothing about breastfeeding here’s your lesson for the day. The more you feed or pump, the more you produce. The less you feed or pump, the less you produce. It’s a supply and demand thing.) So as I new mom whos baby is solely living off breastmilk to survive, it’s essential that I don’t slack on this task.

There are many tasks throughout our day that are important that we don’t slack on. Whether it’s within our job, our family, or personal life, it’s important to not drop the ball on things that must get done.

But sometimes the ball gets dropped. You oversleep, forget, underestimate it’s priority level, or forget your wallet. What do you do then? I can tell you what many of us do. We go on complaining the entire day of how bad it started out and how much it’s thrown off. There’s lack of energy and enthusiasm in everything moving forward because this day is terrible and completely out of whack. A fresh start is in order and since that can’t happen until tomorrow, you throw away the rest of the day waiting on a new one.

When things don’t go as planned or are less than what we anticipated it is easy to throw the baby out with the bath water. Meaning, it is easy to get rid of something precious (like time) just because it’s tainted.

When it comes to growing a business, starting a relationship, building a friendship, or pursuing goals there will be things that come up that make the situation look less desirable.

A successful business isn’t perfect because it’s successful, it’s perfect because through all the adversity it still found success.

The love shared between two people isn’t perfect because they are perfect, it is perfect because through both of their imperfections they still find love.

Never get caught up in how things should be that you ignore how things actually are and lose sight of what it could be.

When things are not going as planned and feel off course, instead of standing still, veer back on your bumpy road and ride it out, push through until you reach the other side.

The path isn’t perfect because there are no hiccups, it’s perfect because it didn’t stop you.

Feel free,

Mel

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