“Acceptance will free you.
You don’t have to like something to accept it… but make no mistake, it WILL free you.
Break away from anything that ties a noose and grab your life in both hands. No matter what shape it’s in now, honour it for sticking by you.
Now go out there with all that you have, the good, the sad, the difficult, the glad… it’s brought you to this exact place on the map where you stand now.
Lean forward.
Take the steps and keep walking.
Do it in honour of what you’ve lost, in respect for what you’ll become.
Live it W I D E and deep.” ~ Lynika
“So much of the ordinary is extraordinary, we often don’t pause long enough, to see the daily miracles tucked inside our days.” ~ Lynika
How to survive…
“Live your life in new ways…
Climb out via the other side of the bed each morning.
Don’t reach for your phone, let your soul come back all the way first.
Notice small things, kneel in the garden, watch the tiny worlds living amongst the grass.
Remember how your heart beats for you each day, take deep breaths in return.
Work in a different room or corner of your home.
If you don’t work or you work for someone else, carry a stone or scrap of paper in your pocket with something valuable written on it.
It can be a quote, a word, a wish, your name…
Remember your world is bigger than 4 walls and it calls to you.
Eat outside.
Help someone.
Love the miracle of being here, alive, playing yourself for a short time on this magnificent stage.
Love your character. Write it new lines.
Remember to let it laugh, weep, dance, fall down, get up, love.
Think outside the old lines.
Don’t stay in one repeat episode.
Walk into new rooms, make new chapters.
Own your life.
Occupy it.
Our time here is brief.
Live it wild, w i d e, open and deep.” ~ Lynika Cruz
“If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. Otherwise, you’ll just be rearranging furniture in rooms you’ve already been in.” ~ Anne Lamott
“Remember you can stop at any time and be in the moment. If the path feels hard or too serious, recharge in the power of laughter. Look up and notice the joy of life itself. It’s woven everywhere.”
~ Lynika Cruz
“For some folk, holidays and celebrations are the loneliest of times.
A time when the absence of support and care are even more prevalent to the person in isolation.
Be it through age, illness or other reasons, there are lonely people on this planet, some who are suffering great pain…
And your kind word or shoulder squeeze can mean the difference between giving up or holding on.
Never underestimate the power of kindness and don’t wait until it’s too late…
Open your heart to someone in need and help make this world a warmer place for somebody today.” ~ Lynika Cruz
“Mistakes are wonderful opportunities to learn and without them we remain a block of wood without the chisel.
When we learn from mistakes they are no longer mistakes but lessons.
We are making mistakes and learning from the moment we are born…
And among a great many other things, mistakes help us to discover how to walk, talk, read, write and create.
Along the way many of us were told that mistakes are to be ashamed of and avoided at all costs.
It’s time to let that illusion go now.
We grow and shape and become mighty beings by moving through mistakes, improving and adapting as we go.
Pick yourself up from mistakes and take the lessons from them. You don’t need to permanently carry textbooks and grade papers after you graduate from school or University; it’s the same with mistakes.
Take what you’ve learned and stride forward, armed with new knowledge and strengths.
Life isn’t stagnant. You aren’t designed to stay in the same place looking backward.
Mistakes ARE your teachers, no need to cower in their presence, listen to what they’ve whispered to you and carry it forward with confidence.
You are better for your mistakes, bigger, stronger, safer, wiser.
Keep powering!” ~ Lynika Cruz
Psst… has someone snuck into your home?
You wouldn’t allow anyone to come traipsing into your home unannounced, set up camp and start criticizing your every move would you…?
Even if you did invite someone in for advice, you wouldn’t have to listen or take their suggestions on board if it didn’t feel right.
And I doubt very much you’d ask them to move in and accompany you every day, everywhere, to give you moment by moment blows on your every thought and action?
Yet shockingly this is exactly what many have happening in their ‘homes’ right now.
Here’s a reminder of something vital the majority of people miss…
At the end of the day, we come home to ourselves.
You spend more time with yourself than anyone else.
Your friends, your family, all want to spend more time with you, but more than anyone else, YOU are the one who gets your company 24/7
It’s seriously time to drop all the effort you put into what you should:
• Act like
• Talk like
• Think like
• Dress like
• Sound like
• Work like
• Live like
And instead — live like there’s already a tenant in the building.
There is.
Someone is home paying the mortgage/rent and bills, taking care of the property, business and all that responsible good stuff…
Somebody called YOU. And YOU is doing just fine thank you very much.
Let me ask you this:
How long are you willing to wait in your life to break out and be yourself?
After you move house/state/country?
After you break up, make up, get married, divorced?
After you lose weight, gain weight, work out, join a group?
After next Weekend, Monday, Wednesday, Month, New Year?
Stop right there.
There’s NO more time to wait.
No magic number or date, no right state of being, no right person to be with first.
Any day, any moment, any time, YOU can choose to begin to be yourself.
From this point on, be your authentic, genuine, complete with virtues and vices, ‘self’
When you get home or wake up, have a rough time, or a good time, you want to know there’s one person who will always be there.
One person who’s proud of you and in your corner cheering you on no matter what…
That person is YOU.
Time to begin to really be YOU.
Let ‘er rip and to heck with anyone who thinks they could possibly know how to be a more authentic version of YOU.
This includes everything; your work, your art, finding your own voice and letting it have a home in the world etc.
What have you done today to praise the one person who needs and backs you the most?
Take precious care of your amazing self; this world needs YOU and YOUR light!
“Dream outside the box… live wide and deep”
Find more on the power and use of self-talk, go here: www.BeggarsCanBeChoosersBook.com
“Sometimes people are judgemental of those who have overcome great tragedy.
They say things like:
‘Oh you must have run over a China Man in a past life’ or ‘I wonder what you did to attract that!’
The trouble with phrases like this is, they portray adversity as either punishment or something to be ashamed off.
Both are incorrect.
Those who overcome adversity and those who are dealing with it right now deserve great respect and honour.
They are passing through new modules in their lives on the way to becoming greater, stronger, more compassionate and empathic versions of themselves.
The Gurus, the Saints, the Holy ones and the Wise are all those who have overcome great obstacles and challenges in life.
If you’re walking a hard path right now, take courage from these words:
You are the light we need most in this world. What you learn from this will create paths for others and grow new places in you that will serve you and this planet for life.
If you know someone going through a difficult, challenging time right now, give them the honour and respect they deserve and most need.
Words can wound or empower, make sure to check what you’re saying to others and yourself.
You are as valid and deserving as anyone else who needs your support and encouragement.
Speak well to and of others and the next time you see someone with a heavy load, embrace them, encourage them.
Remember you’re witnessing the most crucial act on this planet at its most vulnerable – Survival.”
“Today I achieved something that has taken well over a year and a lot of commitment. But there was no doubt it would happen…
In the absence of doubt there’s only forward.
Doesn’t mean there’s no obstacles, setbacks, fear or opposition. It means nobody and nothing will stop you from bending yourself toward it and eventually reaching it.
A mantra of fierce perseverance and self-belief is what gets us to the finish line, every time.
Whatever you’re working on or striving for right now, I’m thinking of you and sending a big wave of kudos!
It takes courage to dream and guts to achieve but it’s worth every step for the immense strength you develop alongside the success.” ~ Lynika Cruz
Pssst… Look around you…
Life is happening right this second.
This very moment right here, right now, is where you are actually ALIVE and living.
We spend so much time thinking and planning ahead that we sometimes don’t realise we have accidentally abandoned our current life and moved there.
Moved to a place that doesn’t have solid, earthy goodness filling you up and sweet, present, ecstatic joy slapping you in the face with a big, happy kiss.
Planning ahead is important but be careful not to live there.
We lose precious moments on words and half sentences like these:
Meanwhile those lost moments accumulate and turn into days, then weeks, months, years until one day you realise…
“These moments are my LIFE.”
Go outside for a moment, really. Get up, look out the window if you’re in a blizzard or heatwave, but LOOK out there, look at life, it’s happening right now around you and TO you.
The loose leaf, the sudden dot of a small bird lifting against the sky, the rustle or stillness of this very moment and your own heart beating in your chest, right now. THIS is living.
And it’s happening NOW.
Be happy in it.
Satisfied even…
Take one small moment if you will and just LOVE it.
Turn it over for a brief second and say out loud, in this moment, this very moment I’m alive and I am noticing it and feeling it.
Now breathe and breathe and breathe.
Life is brief…
Live it W I D E and DEEP… you gorgeous, magnificent, amazing miracle!