Lately I've been engaging in a lot of new things. And it's been really refreshing in so many ways. I started doing badminton, dance classes, salsa, I for Dancehall I am competing in powerlifting a state's level of competition and I've just been exposing myself to a lot of new stimulus. And it's been really refreshing for me, mentally and emotionally. And dare I say even spiritually, because I honestly have come to learn a lot about how I treat myself and talk to myself when I am in an uncomfortable and unfamiliar situation. Having a beginner's mindset reminds me that I'm allowed to fail and to fail often. It reminds me that not everything has to be perfect all the time and that there is absolutely nothing wrong with doing something just to enjoy it. And to experience it. And then not everything has to have a productive purpose. I think it's so easy to get caught up in trying to master something or to make everything have a productive outcome. Because we live in a world that measures everything. And it's worth based on how much it can produce back. It's a very transactional way of living, but by having the beginner's mindset and allowing myself to playfully engage with things that interest me and excite me, with no strings attached, I've been able to reclaim the wonder of what it means to be human and to live. And that is to just be to just enjoy and to allow each moment to be what it will be without having to make it become anything. I have been opening myself up to viewing myself and everything in life with childlike wonder and understanding philosophies like Zen and Buddhism, which embrace the notion that nothing is good or bad. These practices teach us to surrender the need to be right, or the obsession for control. It allows us to stop labeling things as right or wrong and to just see them for what they are, and experience them fully in the moment, which is what I have always inherently believed to be the purpose of being human and living life. And ironically, the more that I've allowed myself to surrender into the joy of just doing and being, whatever lights up my soul or feels most exciting to me, the more that I've found much joy, fulfillment, alignment and return and I think that speaks to the nature of abundance. In our natural state. We are often told that to unlock the experience of abundance and to live in a wholesome state is to become childlike to be fully present. And to remember that we are enough. And by engaging in a lot of these activities that make me feel like my childlike self. I really can tap into what abundance feels like for me.
It liberates me to create with more purpose to show up for my business for my clients, my relationships and everything else that I care about in a more wholesome way and that is a childlike state that I now live and practice day to day without trying. Because for a few months, I really did just allow myself to play and so I wonder if there are things that you have suppressed within you. Maybe desires that you have little joys, adventures you want to go on. Childlike expressions that make you feel uninhibited and unrestricted that you can try today and give yourself permission to play with for the next few months. And I wonder how much it will affect the way you show up and the way you feel about your life.
