SHINE: Discover your brilliance
“What are you going to do with your one wild and magnificent life?”
~excerpt from poem by Mary Oliver
I’ll just launch right in and say it: the world needs our magnificence more than ever right now. It may not be easy to SHINE in these days of depressing news and impending doom, but it’s more important than ever to pull out all the stops and remember who we really are. And we are talented, intelligent, brilliant wo(men) who have an array of gifts to give and solutions to offer.
We really ARE the ones we’ve been waiting for, and it’s time to give ourselves completely to this ‘one wild and magnificent life’… it’s time to truly SHINE.
If you don’t know how to do this, ask yourself a few simple questions: What brings me joy? Where do I find sustenance? Which of my talents come most easy and naturally? How might I share more of these natural gifts with the world?
When you enter a dark room, all you need to do is flip the switch and the darkness disappears. What if WE are the switches bringing light to the dark areas of life? Perhaps if we each click ON and give of our radiance in a hundred simple ways each day (rather than being dulled to sleep by the negative news), the world will become ablaze with solutions rather than burned out by problems.
It’s time for boldness of being and doing. Difficult times call for asleep people to wake up, and for awake people to take action. As someone who’s passionate about creativity and always looking for the silver linings, I know some of the most innovative solutions come during hardship. So let us create!
Take a look around you. Where can you bring a little more light to someone’s day? How might you help a friend shine more brightly? What simple, significant things might you do with your one wild and magnificent life?
Find something to believe in, and turn UP the light. Let yourself shine.
~Sor’a
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