From the Heart

“I can tell you from experience, the effect you have on others is the most valuable currency there is. Everything you gain in life will rot and fall apart, and all that will be left of you is what was in your heart.”  -Jim Carrey

A few questions to ask yourself as you begin the new week:

-What do you carry in your heart?

-What motivates your actions on a daily basis?

-Imagine you are able to structure your life so that you wake up feeling excited about your work every day.  What are you doing that excites you?  Building things out of wood?  Taking care of children?  Planning events?  Working at a restaurant with great people?  Fishing and diving?  Being a teacher of some sort?  Being a cashier at a family-owned store?

-Now come back to your current, everyday life.  How closely does it align to the life you imagined, in which your excitement for what you do translates into serving others?

Consider whether you’d like to make any changes to your daily life, so that you are more intrinsically excited about what you do each day.  Of course, it is not always a simple series of decisions.  And we certainly may not know the answers to all of these questions.  But by simply asking the questions and then letting them go, we can gain remarkable clarity in who we are and what we want.

And, if you’re able to make small changes to inch closer toward those parts of you that feel truly alive, you may be so glad that you did.  Those changes will allow you to live more from your heart – which will far outlast anything else, material or otherwise, that we accumulate in our lifetimes.

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