Live As If You Have Nothing to Lose
Are you living as if you have nothing to lose? How?
Yes, I am living each day as if I have nothing to lose by living each day to the fullest and striving towards my goals. I have learned a lot from being a creative person and I apply what I've learned to every aspect of my life. To me, a full life is constant growth, and constant growth means constant striving. Just trying a moving forward a little bit brings eventual dramatic changes to your life. I feel I can no more make instant and huge changes in my life than I can instantly grow a stalk of corn. I just can't. If I want to grow a stalk of corn, I have to start with a seed. If I want to lose 80 pounds, I have to start with losing one. If I want to write a book, I have to start with one word. If I want to improve my marriage or improve my parenting, I have to start with reaching out with a smile. Everything in my life I have improved by applying stuff I learned from hard-won lessons with my writing.
I also have had the misfortune of having some horrific things happen to me. Coming close to death so many times kinda took the edge off the fear of death for me, but I still had/have a fear of dying before my kids are all grown, or my kids dying before me at young ages. My best friend lost a child and seeing how she has been able to survive that and still be a good, loving mother to her surviving child and still be a happy, productive person has had a deep and profound impact on me. It helped me to see that on some level I did not truly see myself as being a valid person in my own right because I felt like I would be nothing without my kids. I also learned that you can do everything in the world to protect your kids, but death can still happen to them as children no matter what you do or don't do. Having someone close to me who lost a child taught me that not living my life to my potential was not, in any way, protecting my children or sheltering them from harm.
It is hard to try to be all that you can be, to offer yourself up and open yourself to the world, but I believe when you face the fear you are richly rewarded and grow in ways you never would if you had not. Think of a baby learning to walk...yes they are afraid but the reward is walking and running and jumping! If that baby refused to face their fear of falling and bumping and possibly hurting themselves, yes, they would be safe from that but a door would be closed to them forever for a better life. Surely you have the bravery of newly walking baby, someone just a year or less in this world. Face your fear and walk into your brand new life.
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Yes, I am living each day as if I have nothing to lose by living each day to the fullest and striving towards my goals. I have learned a lot from being a creative person and I apply what I've learned to every aspect of my life. To me, a full life is constant growth, and constant growth means constant striving. Just trying a moving forward a little bit brings eventual dramatic changes to your life. I feel I can no more make instant and huge changes in my life than I can instantly grow a stalk of corn. I just can't. If I want to grow a stalk of corn, I have to start with a seed. If I want to lose 80 pounds, I have to start with losing one. If I want to write a book, I have to start with one word. If I want to improve my marriage or improve my parenting, I have to start with reaching out with a smile. Everything in my life I have improved by applying stuff I learned from hard-won lessons with my writing.
I also have had the misfortune of having some horrific things happen to me. Coming close to death so many times kinda took the edge off the fear of death for me, but I still had/have a fear of dying before my kids are all grown, or my kids dying before me at young ages. My best friend lost a child and seeing how she has been able to survive that and still be a good, loving mother to her surviving child and still be a happy, productive person has had a deep and profound impact on me. It helped me to see that on some level I did not truly see myself as being a valid person in my own right because I felt like I would be nothing without my kids. I also learned that you can do everything in the world to protect your kids, but death can still happen to them as children no matter what you do or don't do. Having someone close to me who lost a child taught me that not living my life to my potential was not, in any way, protecting my children or sheltering them from harm.
It is hard to try to be all that you can be, to offer yourself up and open yourself to the world, but I believe when you face the fear you are richly rewarded and grow in ways you never would if you had not. Think of a baby learning to walk...yes they are afraid but the reward is walking and running and jumping! If that baby refused to face their fear of falling and bumping and possibly hurting themselves, yes, they would be safe from that but a door would be closed to them forever for a better life. Surely you have the bravery of newly walking baby, someone just a year or less in this world. Face your fear and walk into your brand new life.
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