Creative Director: Embody

I Create: Creative Director of my Life.

I’ve got a couple of flash cards, that I had on my kitchen windowsill for about two years. One says, ‘Mildly Inconvenient,’ and the other says, ‘Incredible Coping Skills.’ These are reminders for me. For when I get frustrated. They are terms that I got from Marisa Peer. She is a therapist, a hypnotherapist, and speaker, who teaches on transforming your life to be healthier and happier. To re-write your story. Every time I see those flash cards, I can hear her saying the phrases with her English accent. Although something might be ‘mildly inconvenient’ (and that’s the max we should allow it to affect us – just mildly), we all have ‘incredible coping skills.’ Now, I don’t say that or pass that on lightly, people do need to learn how to cope and heal. It takes work and dedication. It’s not easy. But that’s the goal, for me at least, that things in life might be mildly inconvenient, but let’s cope with it, and not make a mountain out of a molehill.

Not long ago, I moved these flash cards to the inside of my kitchen cupboard door. The one I open every day, for tea and spices and herbs. I recognized that after a couple years (or more), they weren’t really for anyone else, but I still wanted them in my face every day. I added a new one to the collection: “Become that person every day.” This one is from Joe Dispenza. The person that you want to be, the mindset you want to hold, the habits you want to make part of you, you have to make the decision every day and be that. You have to remind yourself daily, you have to decide daily, and be that person. Every day.

This is another example of how consistency is important, as discussed last week. But now we embody what kind of person we want to be. The person that you want to become every day, you decide and create: when you embody that version of you, how do you treat yourself? How do you go out into the world, being that version of you? If you are that version of you, what energy do you hold and how do you carry yourself?

When you become that person every day, you are honouring yourself, and committing to yourself. You commit to your future self. You don’t let yourself down. You know that quote, that the two people you should only ever worry about impressing, are your 8 year old self and your 80 year old self? When you become that person every day, you have your 80 year old self’s back, and you are the person that your 8 year old self needed. That is who you commit to.

For years, i’ve been reading and learning about Law of Attraction. What’s become evident is that it is not so much ‘wishing’ and visualizing – although visualizing is a valid tool, but along with it, your energy has to match. So we embody, we put ourselves into the energy of, the vibes that we are wanting to live out. We have to ooze happiness, if we want to call that energy to us. We have to feel it first. We have to become that person every day. It takes work. It takes commitment. It can take years, like I said last week, but taking decades is better than never arriving, so it also takes patience and grace. If it means a flashcard in my face every day to remind me, i’ll do it, and it’s worth it. Magnetism follows, i’ll tell you about that next week.

Until then,

Devon

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