We’re Already Abundant - Let’s Act Like It

As always, life is a roller coaster – but I am continuing to work and grow from the inside, so my outside world is better too! Apparently, I’ve been putting conditions on joy. I’ll relax when the bank account looks better. Celebrate when the body looks different. Enjoy life when work settles down and everyone I love is healthy. Quite the waiting list. At this rate, joy needs a project manager and maybe fairy dust.

But we can live with joy today. With the unfinished work, the uncertain news and the ups and downs. We woke up. We’re here. There is still something to taste, learn, create, love or laugh about. Today already holds a little wealth, even before we check our phones and discover what everyone else is supposedly achieving.

Some days, that wealth is a laugh with someone who knows the whole story. Other days, it’s a hot shower, a good song or ten quiet minutes talking to the dog. Life can be hard, and a moment can still be beautiful. We’re allowed to enjoy it without solving every problem. Otherwise, honestly, who would ever have fun?

We deserve good things now: connection, kindness, adventure, room to grow. We can want a different job, more money, a stronger body or better health while loving something about this day. Joy doesn’t have to be the reward for finally getting our lives together – it IS the journey to all of those things.

So today, ask: What is here that I can enjoy? Notice it. Stay with it for a minute. Share a laugh, send the loving text, play the music.

We have life, something to give and something still to discover.

Today, we are rich. Let’s enjoy some of it.

- Kim