How To Get Your Own Life

As many of you are aware the theme that has come up for me recently is about getting my own life.  As one of the main components of this theme I am becoming more and more active.  As little as a week or so ago I met someone who reintroduced me to clubs that are focused on salsa.  It was as though she came along with the perfect timing and now I am dancing again.  In addition to this my intention is to work out more and stay as mobile as possible so back to the gym and workouts that last about an hour.  With all this said I want to say that the main aspect of this new approach is that I am no longer waiting for anyone to show up for me and I am showing up for myself.

In a coversation with a friend I thought of this statement that came flying out my mouth: "If you don't live with intention life will happen to you, but if you live with intent life will happen for you".  The key words here are to and for.  When we live with pupose and intention life happens FOR us and not TO us.  I think for a while there life was happening to me because I did not have a plan and was not focused on the most important person: Me.  Life is happening for me and no longer is life happening TO me.  When life happens to me I sit around waiting for someone to call or someone to invite me out.  When life happens for me I take life by the horns and live it with intent and purposely.  When life happens for me I have a plan and when we have a plan we experience newness and we live a life where we plan to dance, sing go to a movie, go out to dinner and buy flowers.  Life is lived with purpose and specifically for enjoyment.

Although we cannot plan everything we should never wait for life to happen to us.  None of us should be sitting by the phone waiting for life to come to us in the form of a call with an invitation.  Although most of us know this logically we don't live with intention and we do often make our plans contingent on someone esle's plan.  When we do this we inevitably are disappointed and even upset.  People are human and they will let us down so having our own plan is the most loving thing we can do for us.

Are you living your life with intention?  Is life happening to you or is it happening FOR you.  Make a plan and stick to it.  You will soon find out that instead of being the giver, the follower, the person in the waiting area of life that you will be the person experiencing your joy because you have a plan and you don't alter that plan unless the person is truly that important.  Make your life about others following your lead to become your very best and experience all there is in life.  Travel, join groups, attend workshops, volunteer your time, make your own path and decide today and now that you will have your own life now.

Elliott Maximo Collazo

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