In this short video, I talk about the importance of going lightly in life. We all go through tough times, but if we can remember to stay light and not take things too seriously, it can make a big difference. I hope this video provides some inspiration and motivation for you!
"What does going lightly mean to you?" So this is part five of my Nick the Poet of Cadre's "Aspire to Inspire" series. In part one, we ask what would the hero of our story do next? In part two, we talked about following your bliss. How can you follow your bliss in the next five minutes? In part three, we talked about creativity and service, specifically based on this idea of the formless abundance and giving more value than we take. And in part four, we talked about morning pages, the way that we can bring our story to life.
And now, in part five, I would like to talk about going lightly. There's this quote that has stayed with me that my therapist shared with me early in my recovery, my sobriety journey and my mental health recovery journey. And it says, "It's dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly, child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly, even though you're feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them." And this has been so helpful to me because if you're anything like me, life can be very serious, especially when we're struggling with alcohol, and drugs, and mental health crises, and psych hospitals, and DUIs, and detoxes, and lost jobs, and lost relationships, and everything like that, it feels like life and death.
And sometimes, it just frankly is. But I learned this way of just going lightly as much as possible. And even if I get heavy and dark and go into those places, I just get that reminder to go lightly. Just go lightly. So what are some areas in your life that you could start going lightly on, that you've maybe been pressing too hard on? Because it's interesting, if we go lightly, we may even have more, quote unquote, "success." We may even sometimes, by trying so hard, it doesn't mean that we're going to do better.
Sometimes, by lightening up a little bit, take your hands off the steering wheel and just coast for a while. Try going lightly. And so do this for me if you can. For the next five minutes, just go outside with no particular aim or purpose, and just walk around and look at things. Look at the birds and the trees. Look at your neighbor's house. Oh, they got a new roof on. I never noticed. Keep walking up the street, feel your feet on the ground, and just take five minutes and do nothing and see what happens.
And just remember to keep on going lightly. Thank you so much for following along with this Inspire Series. I've enjoyed bringing it to you. Please let me know any questions or any thoughts that you want to expand on with it. And let's just keep inspiring each other because there's so much cynicism and fear in the world right now that we need to dig down deep while going lightly and just encourage each other. We're in this together. No person is an island. We are in this together. OK, have a great day.
Talk to you later. Bye-bye.
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