The Chrysalis

Currently I’m in a state of chrysalis.

I got tired of being a caterpillar crawling around chewing on leaves. I wanted to see changes in my life. The only way to become a butterfly flying freely whenever and wherever, is to go through the metaphorical process of the chrysalis!

Big words yes, but big results!

Sometimes the chrysalis stage can be so difficult, so taxing … so like we just want to burst out of where we are, but cannot quite do it …we aren’t quite ready , but we are growing and developing.

The churning inside, pushing away from the old past…stretching and leaning…yearning towards the new …to what we want to become… at times seems too great!

That’s what every other butterfly had to do and they came out successfully, and we will too… if we stick with the process. Then, when we look back, it won’t seem that long we were in the transformation. It will be so rewarding! We will be so glad we endured through the process.

I am hanging in there through my chrysalis of becoming a better me.

What are you pushing through right now that seems impossible?

Keep pushing; you will find the way!

Who Says I Can’t?

Can’t do something fulfilling and meaningful?

Can’t work on a job I enjoy?

Can’t be my best self at work?

Can’t speak out my creative ideas?

Can’t find people who like what I like?

Can’t find what I like to do?

Can’t live where I want to live?

Can’t make a change in my life?

Who said these things? Is it really true? Do I have to believe it?

…or could there be something better…some other way?

Am I powerless over my own life, to cherish and challenge it, to develop it and succeed?

Is it pride to think or desire to do these things, or is it my fears trying to hold me back…keep me safe…and from what?

Because if I hold back, not only will I be held back, but by my example I hold others back.

I believe we need to think forward and move forward, constantly getting better, making better and doing better.

They said the Golden Gate bridge could not be built, but there she stands…decades later, the result of one man’s turning others ‘can’ts’ into ‘I can’!

Where do we need to take away the ‘t’ in our lives?