Your money is only worth what you spend it on.

Your Life is only worth what you express it on!

 

Take in those words.

To me they ring true in a way that I’ve not considered before. The original concept came through watching a Youtube video from Kyle Cease but I’ve expanded the original money concept into a fully blown ‘Life’ concept.

Let me explain….

Imagine that I give you a brand spanking new $100 note for you to spend in any way that you choose. You might feel a sense of gratitude (or not) and decide to take yourself to the movies and a nice dinner. You even buy yourself a glass of wine and you have a really lovely night. This night takes you out of the normal hum drum of life and gives you a reprieve but next morning after sending a little mental ‘thank you’ my way, you move back into life… work…. kids…. stress.

Last nights little treat soon starts to fade into the background of life and becomes just a nice memory. $100 gone and nothing left to show for it!

Alternatively you may decide to spend your $100 note on a couple of bottles of really nice wine that you’ve always dreamed of devouring (and never allowed yourself to buy). You drink it joyously, even sharing it with your best friend and have a great time. It’s a bit unfortunate about the headache you wake up with next morning, but oh well…. it was worth it!

Last nights little drinking extravaganza soon starts to fade into the background (along with the hangover eventually) after a couple of headache tablets. It  also leaves a nice memory… but….$100 gone and a very slow and laborious day ahead as you struggle to think and act clearly. 

There’s one more alternative ………

What if you decided to do something outrageous and spend the $100 on some books that you’ve been eyeing off but never had the spare cash to buy, or a healing or an interesting workshop, or you passed it along to someone that really needed it desperately? All great options!

We’ll use the books as an example. You buy these books, read them and they inspire and help you with making new and better choices. You wake up feeling excited about the possibilities because of this inspiration, and you bounce happily into your day (no hangover…. just happiness).

Or perhaps you decide on the healing that you keep promising yourself or the workshop that you know will help you and could have the same effect of lifting you up to a new level of enjoyment or knowledge. And…. the look on the face of the person you gifted the $100 note to – was priceless.

You’ll remember that smile and ‘thank you’ hug forever!

It changes YOU for the better!

You get the drift? Each choice really changed the value of the $100 note. Where one choice enhanced the value – another choice diminished it!

Now convert the concept to Life……

Your Life is only worth what you express it on!

We are given choices constantly around how we spend our day, our week, our life. We can get caught up in the petty things that don’t really advance us along the journey we call life. They’re really just space fillers e.g: TV, Facebook, drinking, junk food. Not that there’s anything wrong with these in moderation.

Imagine Life when we’re conscious of the lasting effect we have in each moment.

Everything that we do, every expression in life…. has an effect on not just ourselves, but our friends, family and society. The effect either adds value to our lives and the lives of others or it diminishes it!

Perhaps before you start out on your day today you can take a moment to make a choice about the effect you’d love this day to have.

What difference do you want to make? More Passion and Purpose? Greater Love? Awesome friendships?

Everything is possible!

Invest yourself into your day expecting and knowing that you’re expressing yourself in each moment AND each moment counts.

Do what brings you closer to your Truth. Decide that you are worth investing in yourself. Read that book. Do that workshop. Bring more satisfaction into your life through adventure and growth.

Add value!

12th February 2017

Last night I found myself sitting alone on the man made rock wall at Brunswick Heads under a glowing full moon which shed it’s brilliant creamy light on a surging ocean continuously rampaging towards me.

The Lunar eclipse and expected comet were also adding to the celestial intensity as I defiantly sat there daring the huge rolling waves to break over me and take me away – not just splash me relentlessly in it’s teasing fashion.

I was distraught.

I was emotionally exhausted.

I was alone with my thoughts and fears that had risen unceremoniously while in meditation not much earlier that evening.

Meditation is for quieting the mind and stilling the senses bringing peace…. but not this one!

This one felt like a rupturing of my safety net. I saw myself in a haze of intense feelings walking into ocean waters and swimming towards the horizon, knowing eventually the waves would take me and I wouldn’t return.

At lease I’d find some sort of relief and escape.

I’d seen this image many times before over many lives. The watery substance of feelings rising… going into overwhelm… looking for the release that never comes and then the choice to escape.

I started with a statement that I was screaming internally,”I don’t want to start over again!” “I don’t want to do this anymore!”

Daring those waves to take me away and me not have to make the choice to enter the watery depths was the first sign that a new choice was arising- although I didn’t know that at the time.

I could have sat closer to the edge.

I could have jumped into the tumultuous seas.

I didn’t though. I needed to vent my frustration and feel my vulnerability. I needed to surrender, not knowing what to do or how to do it.

I needed to let go of my old ways of escapism, my old patterns of overwhelm and not deny my vulnerability… my humanness.

I wasn’t broken on the rocks, yet I felt broken inside. Cracked open.

I still didn’t have any answers. I still didn’t know whether I was willing to face another day. I didn’t know whether I could muster up the energy to keep going and start over again. I did feel my statement change to a plea, “how can I do this? How can I start all over again?”

Maybe it was in asking the question, asking for help – that the shift came.

I wandered home slowly. Begrudgingly shared a little of what I was feeling with the one who knows me best. He felt my pain but allowed me to own it.

I made myself read a chapter of my book taking me into a place of reverence and acknowledgement of the pains we all go through in these human lives on this spinning emerald green planet.

As I eventually sunk into sleep with my sacred items close at hand -crystals, sacred photographs and tokens. I asked to be healed and nurtured by the Beings for Light and Angels that I know so well.

I only woke once during the night fresh from a potent dream showing me my healing was being enacted. I gratefully allowed myself to fall back into sleep state until morning.

I awoke in a new day with a new chance, having made a new choice.

These times are precious, demanding, challenging beyond anything we’ve ever experienced. They have been created for our freedom and release, not from this life but from our old burdens and old ways of coping that no longer work and cannot come with us into the New Earth that is evolving.

2017 promises to be a doosey! It’s not for the feint hearted…..but it is for me.

I hope we find each other there!