April 24, 2010

I have not posted a blog since Thursday. Chase, our youngest, has the lead role in Les Miserables at his school and time has been consumed between the play, family in from out of town, and work.

I had a very exiciting thought today as I was working on the fearless living process that I have developed. Chase is 17. About age 15 he figured out what he really wanted to do. He was a dancer and an actor. I have since discovered that he can also sing. Notice that I didn't say he wanted to be a dancer and actor. He was a dancer and actor.

He did what anyone who follows the path of fearless living and intentional living does. Instead of trying to always get there, or be good enough he began to think of himself as a dancer and actor. We saw a marked difference in his performance from that point forward.

The journey to live very intentionally is about being rather than doing. Most of us, me included, spend way too much of our time trying to "get there" rather than living in the present out of our being. When we do that, live out of our being, the magic begins to happen. When we live out of our being we see ourselves and the world around us in a different light. We see opportunity where opportunity did not exist before. We see the path to success (whatever we are seeking to succeed at) where we only saw trees before.

Tonight is the last night of the play. It will be tremendous.