BEEP BEEP, BEEP BEEP, BEEP BEEP.

It’s 6am and your alarm is going off on a Tuesday. You wake up and the first thing you do is grab your phone, wishing against all might that you could just sleep in a few more hours as you are just so so tired. You spend 10-15 minutes catching up on everything you feel you might have missed over night on your Facebook feed and eventually crawl out of bed to the shower to start your day wishing you could just have the day off and not go in to the office today. The emails you have waiting, the phone you know that won’t stop ringing and the people you can’t necessarily be bothered to deal with today all await you once you get to the office and it makes you sigh.

It’s not even 7am and you have already had 10 negative thoughts without even realising.

You eventually get to work, but not before you curse that there is no milk in the fridge for your coffee, give your partner a kiss goodbye without any real emotion or feeling and get silently angry on the inside that there is peak hour traffic – AGAIN and when will this routine ever end.

The day comes and goes. You spend most of your day not thinking too much of how you’re showing up in the world and at the office barely giving your all because it’s not your dream job, and at the end of the day rush home, completely missing all of the beauty surrounding you including the sun setting as you make your way up to your door. You walk in your house to give your partner another hello kiss still without much emotion and curl up in front of the tv to watch your favourite tv show, tired, over it and feeling sorry for yourself that you haven’t had an amazing day in weeks.

It’s the same routine you have followed for days, weeks, months or even years now.

It’s pretty late, so you take yourself off to bed to do it all again tomorrow, but before you go to sleep, you spend the last 15 minutes of your night not cuddled in to your loved one talking about intentions of what you hope to achieve tomorrow or nuzzled in to an enriching book, but instead on your side of the bed scrolling through facebook justtttt one last time…..

BEEEEEP BEEEEEP BEEEEEP BEEEEEP BEEEEEP BEEEEEP

Your alarm goes off again on a sunny Wednesday morning except this time, this time you don’t reach over to turn it off wishing and hoping you could just sleep in a few more hours because this time, this time….

 ….you didn’t make it through the night.

Your body lays there lifeless, having finished its time here on earth for no reason – your heart just, stopped.

High above your body you are consciously there, in spirit form, screaming you’re not ready to go, you never got to go to your #1 bucket list city, you didn’t even tell your partner you loved them last night, in fact you start crying realising you can’t even remember the last time you properly told your whole family and best friends you love them. You are shaking with emotion as you realise your last day on earth, was spent like SO many others, sleepily, not showing up, no passion, no love, no…nothing. You realise that although you are dead now, you have essentially been dead for a long time.

You realise, you have lived a life in the shadows.

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Ok, breathing in the story above, now I want you to come back to this present moment and just really let that story sit somewhere inside of you where you need waking up.

It’s a tough subject for some people to talk about, death, but to help you to understand the importance of showing up everyday and leaving everything on the table like it was your last day – the example needed to be given.

What IF today was your last day on earth? Would you be happy how you lived today? Were you present in all that you did? Did you fill your day with nourishing food, meaningful conversations, and love?

I see it all the time, so so SO many people want to live an extraordinary life, one of abundance, of choice, of freedom, and yet they still allow themselves to live as if they have time – and if there is one thing I know for sure Time is one of our most precious commodities on this earth. People who believe they have time live out mediocre day after mediocre day after mediocre day, they blame their upbringing, their external circumstances, their boss or anyothertinythingunderthesun for not being able to live that extraordinary life, not really understanding or realising that THEY  have total control of their life and THEY have total control over how they live out their days.

The way that I live my life, and I truly truly mean this, is I have a deathbed mentality. A mentality that I act as if every day could be my last. Every day I am grateful for the day I am given from the moment my eyes are awake but even more than that I ask myself, if today WERE my last day on earth, how would I want to spend it?

Here is the trap that people get stuck at however. There is a critical aspect to this mentality and way of living and please know this ….. it is not at ALL about monetary value or not having to work either – I am completely aware and understand that majority of society have to go to jobs and have financial responsibility – what it’s about is how you SHOW UP and how you FEEL.

How do you wake up? Do you wakeup and grab your phone? Or do you wake up and immediately fill your head with positive thoughts and gratitude for being given another day, for the warm bed that you’re in and the 2 working arms & legs you have (a luxury a lot of people don’t have).

How do you have breakfast? Do you rush out the door not even honouring one of the most important meals of the day or do you stop and enjoy it, filling your body with nutritious and healthy fuel?

How are your interactions all day long? Are you being the best version of you? Present? Loving? Accepting? Calm? Productive? Positive? Or do you justtttt do enough to scrap by day to day and live in a shell of normality and routine never daring to step out of your comfort zone. Do you enter in to judgement and bitchiness? Or do you maintain impeccability of your word and always always take the positive route (remember, a positive thought is as easy to choose as a negative one…fact).

Do you regularly share with the people you love that you DO love them? If something like “I am too shy to say it” or worse “my dad/mum never said it to me so I have always had the fear to say it others” comes up for you – PLEASEEEEE STOP IT RIGHT NOW. Go back to the story. Remember that time is your most precious commodity and you don’t in fact control when your time is up – how many I love you’s are you prepared to take to the grave with you?

How are you filling in your spare time? Are you finding your lifes purpose and filling your evenings and weekends and spare moments with things that you love? Or are you ‘too tired’ to do anything else other than sit mindlessly in front of the tv evening, after evening, after evening.

This is YOUR life. Yours and only yours to live. I am only here with the purest of loving intentions to share my own secrets to a deeply fulfilling life and know this, long before I started the business I now have that does reward me more financial freedom I lived with this mentality.

How you show up in this world is EVERYTHING. How you live your life day by day by day is even more than that. I have learnt that…

Life isnt about getting to a destination.

The joy & juice & happiness comes from living in every day. Taking delight in the day to day moments of your life. Like waking up in a warm bed and next to someone you love. Like seeing someone smile to themselves in the street making you smile to yourself. Like receiving a delicious cup of coffee & the barrister, who didn’t need to but did it anyway, making a cute heart or leaf on top of your coffee. It’s the moments of pure gratitude you have when you are out for dinner with family or friends and there are belly laughs around the table. It’s when you feel the warmth of your skin in the Summer or your favourite song comes on in the car. It’s when you walk in the door to see your dog so excited showing you more love than anything in the world.

The more beauty you find in each day, the more gratitude you have for each moment, this I promise you; the more beauty & exquisiteness will come in to your life.

Happiness is not a final destination….

 it is living in each moment of every single day of your life. Today, this day is all you have. The quote Carpe diem – seize the day is such a divinely inspired reminder that every day is truly yours and yours alone to seize and live out with love and wonder.

And if nothing else, I hope this next story touches you and inspires something deep inside of you to move your life in to living each day out fully and with love than with mediocracy and comfort zones.

BEEP BEEP, BEEP BEEP, BEEP BEEP.

It’s 6am and your alarm is going off on a Tuesday. Your eyes open and a smile is already spread wide across your face. Far out, you think. What a gift to be given another day … AND it’s sunny outside – double quadruple score. You look over to see the love of your life next to you and wake them with a kiss & good morning. They wake up happy & smiling knowing how deeply they are loved. Before your feet hit the ground, just like every other morning, you pick up your gratitude journal and write 5 quick things down you are already grateful for that day or what occurred the day before; on todays list is a hot cup of coffee you know is waiting for you after your work out, the hot shower youre about to get in, the sunshine beating down outside, the lovely old lady who said hello to you at the shops yesterday that reminded you of your own grandparents & made you smile all day, and the fact you made several of your work mates laugh yesterday. It’s not even 7am and you have already had 10 positive thoughts without even trying.

You eventually get to work, after an amazing morning work out and healthy breakfast and feel incredible. You have listened to your favourite music, giving your partner a loving and thoughtful embrace and kiss & love you as you walk out the door and smile to yourself all the way on the bus / train to work. You realise that although youre going to a job that isn’t your forever gig – youre just grateful that for now, it is comfortably paying your bills and you have a place where you can show up and push yourself every day growing in leadership and personal development with challenges & triumphs.

The day comes & goes but all day long you are present for your co-workers, you laugh, help out where you need to, say hello to all that cross your path and make sure no one leaves your desk feeling less happy than when they came. Your whole office constantly says how positive you are and how you brighten their day and just by hearing that – your day is brightened.

You take the train home smiling at the lunch time laughs you got to have and taking in the most beautiful sunset on the walk home stopping in awe every few steps to watch how the clouds change formation and the sky puts on the most beautiful show that you feel is just for you.

It’s the same routine you have every day – and it just feels so good. You are called to text one of your best friends just to remind them how much you love them and appreciate their friendship and take a call from your mum pouring presence and love in to the quick exchange of words you share.

Walking through the door you are excited to see your partner already home and give them a long hug and big kiss and say how grateful you are for them and ask genuinely how their day was. You have dinner without your phones talking about the days going on’s and laughing and laughing over sharing stories from the recent trip you took that you hadn’t put off even though it wasn’t an ideal time to go.

You spend the night doing your favourite hobby, music blaring, filling your mind and heart with your favourite things.

Feeling content, satisfied and happy you realise it’s pretty late, so you take yourself off to bed to do it all again tomorrow, but before you go to sleep, you spend the last 15 minutes of your night cuddled in to your loved one talking about intentions of what you hope to achieve tomorrow and read a quick last chapeter of your favourite book……..

BEEEEEP BEEEEEP BEEEEEP BEEEEEP BEEEEEP BEEEEEP

Your alarm goes off again on a sunny Wednesday morning except this time, this time you don’t reach over to turn it off because this time, this time….

you didn’t make it through the night.

Your body lays there lifeless, having finished its time here on earth for no reason – your heart just, stopped.

High above your body you are consciously there, in spirit form, although you know those on earth will be so sad at your passing, you float their looking down on yourself smiling, knowing that you left EVERYTHING you had on the table every single day. You know that everyone you loved, knows just how deeply you love them. You had visions board for years and had ticked everything off year after year. You know that all that you had to say every day and all the kindess that you had to pour was given and you served as powerfully as you could on the earth just by showing up authentically as you and giving all of your love. You know you lived with passion, love, purpose & happiness – and you know that your loved ones will be ok as they know that is how you lived as well.

You realise, you have lived a life in bright colour and painted in bold brushes and left the earth a much brighter beautiful place than when you first came.

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So my wishes for you in this life.

I hope you have the courage to live in bright bold colours.

I hope you have the courage to live with kindess and pour love in all of your interactions and all of those that you love know how deeply they really are loved by you.

I hope you have the courage to show up authentically and powerfully every day as you and step fully in to your gifts and power to live out your purpose.

My deep wish for you is that I truly hope you have the courage to live every day as if it WAS your last.

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