Just Be It

I love words. 

Do you ever hear a word like “clementine” and it just makes you feel warm inside? 

Sometimes, people will just say a word and I’m like “Yes!!!” 

Ask my older sister, I have about 7 journals around me at all times. I have journals on my shelf, I have journals from Vietnam and El Salvador, I have journals on my iPad, iTouch and MacBook, I have a Chopra Center journal and a journal of recycled paper, I have an online journal, I have a private journal....

point is- journals filled with words. 

Some of my favorite words are:

Passion

Culture

Learning

Thriving

Peace

Fulfilled

Inspired

Inspiring

Compassion

It’s weird when you have these words constantly in your level of consciousness, they come up everywhere.

When you have a moment where something REALLY resonates with you, write it down. Pick a word. 

Keep those words around you constantly. 

Engage in things, businesses, experiences, opportunities, jobs, hobbies, activities that bring out those feelings. 

Sometimes, we cannot put our finger right on top of what we want in life.

I still cannot answer the question “what do you want to be when you grow up?”

Actually, I do not even spend any time dedicated on answer that anymore.

You know why?

Because I don’t freakin know. How the heck am I supposed to know?

I don’t know if I’m gonna be sick tomorrow, have time to wash my hair tonight, or if my 10 year old car will start in the next 15 minutes.

I truly believe in having dreams and aspirations, don’t get me wrong. A small goal of mine that have no doubt in contributing to is World Peace.

Also, having some plan and structure in life is great.

My point is that thinking and thinking about what you want to be when you grow up can be a daunting and confusing task in our world of endless opportunities in New York, which can bring about a great deal of anxiety for the mass of us.

What I realized quite recently is that I am being right now what I want to be when I grow up. 

Merely by living my life with my “words”, (compassion, passion, fulfillment, culture, peace, learning, growth, inspiring) in mind, I am being what I want to be.

So you know that saying “just do it”.

Just be it.

It seems silly. It seems simple.

And it is.

The greatest part of it all is that it works.

I have worried a lot about my future. About my family. About my friends. About myself. 

I still do, let’s not lie.

However, I have been much more conscious and aware of living from a place of “just doing what resonates with me”.

Some people call that “following your heart” or “dreams”.

It sounds floofy. But before I knew it, I won a scholarship to continue studying in the field of peace, I enrolled in a Yoga program abroad, I was making more money, and published with many honors of recognition on one of my favorite online publications for wellness. 

One of my favorite books, that I have read numerous times, by my favorite authors, Paulo Coelho is “The Alchemist”.

He taught me that the Universe will conspire for you. Just show the Universe what it is that you truly want to live for. Do you know?