My Life Design Studio

So here we all are; creative, spirited beings, each endowed with our own unique set of skills and talents that are just waiting to be shared with the world yet we don’t do it! Instead, we hold back or hide what it is that only we can create and share. We choose each and every distraction that comes our way, create excuses for waiting and procrastinating and spin ourselves around in circles just so we won’t have to step out of the rabbit hole.

Why do we do this? Is it because we lack courage? The courage to step away from the herd, the courage to be different, to be bold, to open up and share who we really are, the courage to be seen, to be noticed, the courage to stand out?! Standing out means we may not only be noticed but also be talked about, even judged or critizised. Is it the fear of judgement that holds us back or is it something other than that? Is this fear even real? Is it the perceived enormity of the task or overall goal that holds us back? Does it feel too big, will it take too long or be too difficult? Do we feel we lack needed resources or that we do not have necessary skills?

Whatever the ‘story’ is, it is just that… a story! We can choose to step out of it and into a different story. All creative artists and entrepreneurs have had to get their boldness on and dare to step out and stand out! The very gifted singer, Adele admits she has stage fright right before going on stage, event to the point of having tried to escape from a venue and throwing up before a show. Still, she says; “the bigger the freak-out, the more I enjoy the show!”

So what’s the worst that can happen if you follow your dreams and decide to DO and BE everything you are meant to BE? How horrible would that really be? How wonderful would that be? What can you do to step above and beyond whatever it is that you’ve been allowing to hold you back? How about looking that fear or story of fear in the eye and see how ‘small’ it really is compared to be ‘bigness’ of you. Is it time for you to stand on your own stage? When will you go for it?! Working with a great life coach can help you get to where you want to BE and BE-ing who you want to BE. Are you ready to step up your game!?

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.” -Ambrose Redmoon

These are the only two situations possible, and you are in the sad situation. Everybody may know about you — who you are — but you yourself are completely oblivious of your transcendence, of your real nature, of your authentic being. This is the only sadness in life. You can find many excuses, but the real sadness is this: you don’t know who you are. How can a person be happy not knowing who he is, not knowing from where he comes, not knowing where he is going? A thousand and one problems arise because of this basic self-ignorance.

People go on repeating the same thing, again and again. If you look at the faces of people in the world, you will be surprised: why do all these people look so sad? Why do their eyes look as if they have lost all hope? The reason is simple; the reason is repetition. Man is intelligent; repetition creates boredom. Boredom brings a sadness because one knows what is going to happen tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow… until one goes into the grave, it will be the same, the same story.

Be creative, and the more creative you are, the more rejoicing, the more dancing, the more songful your aloneness becomes. Those periods of sadness, of grumpiness — old habits — will start falling like dead leaves falling from the trees. They also cling for a little while, but they have to fall.

Osho