I'm on a mission to help more people find and live their authentic life. Check out my Daily Notes where I write a short note each day about the connection of spirit, mind, body and money on the Pursuit of your authentic life.
life's short
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I know I’m stating the obvious in today’s title, but I just read a friend of mine’s beautiful post from last week in memory of his mother, and it served as yet another reminder of how short life is–or maybe how fast it can pass by. As I sat with the post and thought about all of the memories he described, I thought about my own with my parents and finally thought about what I hope will be the types of memories my boys have of me. I then began to think about how many of us spend so much of the short time we have doing things we don’t enjoy–I’m not talking about cutting the grass, cleaning the house, or other little responsibilities that we have (or maybe I am?!?). I’m talking about not living out, or at least pursuing, dreams. I’m talking about continuing to live a life that doesn’t excite us because it’s the easy thing to do. I’m talking about keeping people around us that do not align with where we are going because they’ve always been a part of our lives. I’m talking about not prioritizing the activities that help us feel best. I’m talking about not living a life that is authentic to who we are. This has been normalized and has become widely accepted by society. Bronnie Ware famously wrote about the five regrets of the dying, and they all are a result of not living a life we truly want to live and feel called to live:
Living your authentic life does not mean you live a perfect life–there will certainly be disappointments, “failures,” and aspects that you don’t love. But because you are doing so many things you do love and living aligned with your authentic Self, those “non-ideal” areas won’t seem as bad. As you know, we don’t know how much time we have left in this life, which is why it’s so important to begin moving toward your authentic life and working to minimize the regrets you would have if you continue down the path you currently are on. JC |
connect spirit, mind, body, and money w/ Justin Castelli
I'm on a mission to help more people find and live their authentic life. Check out my Daily Notes where I write a short note each day about the connection of spirit, mind, body and money on the Pursuit of your authentic life.
A friend told me a story his pastor shared, and I've been thinking about it a lot lately: A father and son planned a road trip across the desert. This trip happened before cell phones, GPS devices, and modern technology that makes traveling easy, and the risk of getting lost very, very low. Armed with just a map and a full tank of gas, the father and son began their trip. After a couple of hours on the road, they arrived at a fork in the road—a fork that wasn’t on their map. Confused by the...
As I mentioned in yesterday’s Note, I started the day being lazy–laying on the couch, binge-watching Starting Five on Netflix, and researching different breathwork trainings. My lazy Sunday didn’t stop there. I did some reading.I watched some football.I took a couple of short naps.I cut the backyard.I watched two movies on the couch with Silas in the evening. I didn’t think about work, I didn’t think about writing anything, and I didn’t feel the need to be on my computer planning for the...
I’ve spent a large chunk of this morning being “lazy,” binge-watching Starting Five on Netflix, getting ideas out of my head and into Notion, and researching different breathwork training programs--it's been extremely refreshing being lazy for a bit. Now isn’t the time, but in the next year, I’d like to start a program to become a breathwork facilitator to use in my LifeDesign+ work and even do small group sessions. I know that becoming a great facilitator will require me to learn different...