My friend Charmain sent me the picture that accompanies this Uplifting Moment. I was mesmerized by the radiance of blissfulness I experienced in looking at the expression shining out of the eyes of her son, Lucas.
If someone took your picture doing what you love to do, would they capture your bliss?
It’s been a year since I started writing these Uplifting Moments, and on this anniversary I realized that the year would have gone by whether I wrote or not! Maybe you’ve had those reflective moments as well, when you stand back and ask yourself how you’ve spent your time. And perhaps you notice that time has gone by and you didn’t get to what matters most.
The way you get things done is to start and continue until it’s finished or becomes part of who you are. It’s the “just do it” decisions that allow you to make room for what matters most. And then you notice that time has gone by, but has been used in a way that makes you smile.
Life has a way of continuing to move forward along the path you’ve set … a path that can bring the experience of blissful moments with it, if you are moving forward, in some way, with the direction you want to go.
It is blissful to write these moments of insight to enlighten my own practice and to share them with you. Writing reveals my thoughts more than any other mechanism I’ve found so far. It’s a process that allows looking into ideas to see how they hold up in the searchlight of questioning.
When you love what you do, what you do transcends the work, even though it may take work to do it! Blissful work or leisure is making time for something that on reflection is time well spent.
So how do you follow your bliss?
- Work like you’re making a contribution.
- Love like no one has hurt you.
- Play like no one is watching.
- Sing along with the music every chance you get.
- Live as if this was already paradise.
Dr. Lee Baumel who regularly sends me different perspectives on love and life inspired these reflections.
Here’s to another year of Uplifting Moments, and something new this fall called “Coaching Moments”.
My love goes with you on this blissful day.
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Mon, July 19, 2010
by Paulette Sun Davis