live passionately every single day

you never know if today is the last day of ur life..so u’d rather live it with 100% passion..
i believe that each day brings with it infinite possibilities..the condition being that you have to demonstrate total passion for life to give you back atleast a portion of the infinite possibilities…
also..if you give out passion..you get back the same..maybe in multiples !!!!

I did something the other day that I haven’t done in a while. I took a leisurely walk in the park. Stopped several times to take (very amateur) pics of plants, just because I liked the way they looked. Enjoying simple stuff like that is what living passionately is.

I’m counting this as done. I’ve thought about it and I do everything in my power to make every day the best it can be. And I do everything with all I have. Work, play, fight, whatever it is. I do everything with a little bit of fire, and I think that would be what I consider to be passion. If I find myself in the future not doing this, of course this will go back on my list, but as far as I can tell, that’s just kind of how I am. I at least feel passion at all points of the day and that’s… well, more than I can say for most people I know.

I guess I meant live with love every day. But I think I want to live passionately. Fight like there’s no tomorrow. Etc. I want to do everything with all I have because no matter what the outcome it’s better that way. And really, I think this is probably the way I just live anyhow. I do everything with all I’ve got because that’s just how I want to do it. But I’m going to leave this up until I decide for sure that’s what’s going on.

Truthfully, I know it’s only been a week so there’s still hope for me. But this week… I’ve lived passionately but not in the good see beauty in things kind of way. More in the fight like the sky will come crashing right down onto me if I were to lose. Which I did a few times, and the world didn’t end…so that leads me to believe it’s possible that it just wasn’t all that importnat. Some things just aren’t worth fighting about. That being said, it’s been full of passion this week. I just wish I could live passionately in a good way every single day.

I want to be able to see the beauty in every place that I am. I find that it is hard to see beauty in places that I don’t want to be, but I have knowledge that this does not make them not beautiful. And I feel as though if I can perhaps find the beauty in such places, I can start to find the beauty in smaller things like cleaning my dishes after I eat even though I’d rather let them sit around and wish they’d clean themselves. And perhaps in seeing beauty in such things I would have more passion for life because I would have a passion for doing even the little things that don’t make my heart feel that little squeeze inside of it telling me that this is beautiful. I’d see beauty in the mundane things that have to be done every day just as a part of living on your own without the money for a maid, hah. And maybe beauty is the start of passion. For, I’ve never had passion for anything I couldn’t find something beautiful about. But that’s the art speaking. There’s something to be said for pretty pretty things. But I find there’s more to be said for finding beauty in “ugly” things. Reminds me of railroad tracks. I’ve always thought railroad tracks were the most beautiful things. I’ve recently found that most people around here don’t agree with me, thinking they’re ugly metal things that make their car bump annoyingly when they go over them. I still, of course, see them as beautiful, and I suppose I hope just to see more things this way. Every day I hope to see more beauty in things.
And this being said, I hope to make more time to DO things. and MAKE things. because that is beautiful.

I can see the change not since i posted this goal but in the past two years or so really that i have really come into a place in my life that i am entirely comfortable with what i’m doing right now… where i see myself going in the next few years…

This isn’t a compleeting kind of goal.. but i’m not living by anyone elses rules anymore and i am confident in my own path which makes loving the whole package that much easier!

On that basis i’m exing it off my list.

not being ‘passionate’ i’m full of energy and always on the move, BUT, i gotta learn to be positive in my passions.. I tend to love stuff SO much that i get super anxious and start worrying.

So, here’s to being passionate about THIS moment. forget the future and past which you can’t access. I love THIS moment.

I like exciting life, love to be active and enjoy every minute of a day, week, month, year… I’m not doing what I love though.

In this game called life I can’t change what cards I have been dealt, I have to play my symbolic Poker hand as is. I have to throw away, let go of the cards that have no more value for me and then realize that I will be dealt new cards that offer new possibilities. Cards that one gets rid of are all yesterday cards: regrets, resentments and habitual ways of thinking.

Even then the game is not over, for as I know, it is not always the player with the best cards that wins the game. Sometimes the best choice is to ‘fake it until you make it’. Bluffing is part of the game. Remember that in Poker, bluffing is not lying. For this metaphor, in life one is faced with the reality that one’s current situation is not always conducive to having victory. The best option in these instances is to be something first and then allow the ‘doing’ to follow as a result. Form follows function; mind over matter and being becomes doing. These are all statements of truth that apply.

It works like this: First you decide what state of mind you need for success in any given situation. For instance, to have success in one’s business, one has to ask oneself, “What kind of a person do I need to BE, if I want success?” One answer could be that one needs to be confident. Following the argument, you will have to create a picture of yourself as being confident already. If you act from that state of being your actions will slowly but surely be that of a confident person and success will follow. On the other hand (excuse the pun), trying to do confident things will fail because like the opponent in Poker you will see right through it, if it is not backed by affirmative internal dialogue.

Remember, in life you are both the opponent and yourself. In Chris De Burg’s song Spanish Train he sings of God and the Devil playing poker for his soul. For me this is again a metaphor for the eternal battle between our shadow side and our light, our ego and our highest potential. The Devil and God is within, our consciousness is both these forces and we are waging a bet that we will go one of two ways, to the Victory of our Divinity or to the demise of our humanity.
But now you may ask, if I am both the opponent and myself in the game, how can I bluff myself? How can I pretend to be confident, when I am not?

The truth is that we often bluff ourselves for destructive purposes. We bluff ourselves that we want to be successful when our actions reveal the opposite. This means that what we say is not what we mean. We do not “walk the talk” and that there is no or little congruence between our stated objectives and what is happening in our lives. If we care to look honestly enough at our situation we will see that we are not committed to what we want. For instance, I say I want to achieve success and be confident to achieve it, yet I listen to the voices that tell me I am worth less more than I listen to the voice within that is calling me to my highest potential.

This kind of ‘bluffing’ is subconscious – we are conveniently unaware of our sabotaging behavior and this obviously does not work for us, for we find ourselves again and again failing our objectives.

The kind of ‘bluffing’, the ‘fake until you make it’ approach which I am suggesting however is a conscious decision to reprogram the mind. Once the decision has been made to do this, one must become aware of the voices within. When a negative thought occurs, acknowledge it as a thought, in other words bring it into your awareness and consciously replace it with an affirmation that is positive in nature. For instance a thought like “I am never going to achieve this”, can be replaced by “ I live in the totality of possibilities”.

Affirmations are statements of truth in the present moment of now. Negative thoughts are vested in believes that come from one’s past conditioning, whilst affirmations take us to the only place in time we have power, the NOW and that brings us face to face with choices that collectively, over time, make up our future.

“Wherever you are, be there.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is important to remember that one can not, especially when we are still allowing the negative thoughts to be subconscious, avoid having a thought. You are not failing when you have the negative thought. Having them just seems to be the nature of our minds; however one can choose to respond to having such thoughts in a way that does not allow them to sabotage our success.

Viewing your life as a game gives you the opportunity to not take yourself so seriously. In other words, you can stand back and view yourself as a player and hopefully this gives you a perspective that is more objective than being caught so much that you can’t see the wood from the trees.

All that the soul wants is to be at peace and heaven is where thoughts and actions meet the choice of living life to its fullest. Now that’s passion.