Live Boldly: Live closer to that thing that makes you sing. Mary Anne Radmacher
Part of living a bolder life is to take risks. To put yourself out there and see what might happen. Many lessons go along with that but today I want to focus solely on what the quote from Radmacher says to me, and perhaps to you as well.
I think that sometimes the thing that makes us sing (in heart, in spirit, etc) doesn't make sense on the practical level (income, etc) so we often place it on the back burner and watch it simmer away down to nothing while we engage in a more practical way of living. But perhaps that isn't so practical after all. Our souls can dry up and burn out in the practical applications of life. But we have to eat, right? We need to have a roof over our heads, right? Right and yet...
If it (what is "it" for you?) makes you sing then get creative, take it off the back burner of your life and begin to let it boil. Let it enter into the practical parts of your life, move yourself closer to it so it doesn't get left to burn out. I think part of the problem is we want all or nothing. And the reality of life is we can't have all or nothing. We have to weave into our lives our passions and see if they will be allowed to become our reality at some point. Very few of us get to do that but many of us can have the thing that makes us sing enrich our lives which will always make us feel bolder about living in the practical ways. And part of living boldly is to persevere. Keep it up, don't give up on the thing that makes you sing. You literally never know when it might become more of a reality.
What makes you sing? Is it creating something (sculptures, pottery, paintings, food, etc)? Take a class, keep engaged in it. Is it writing (screenplays, short stories, books, articles, etc)? Keep it up, at the very least write a blog (gee, think I might be speaking from experience on this one? *grin*) so that you are compelled to write, no matter what it is and no matter who might read it. Is it music (singing, instruments, writing music, etc)? Keep in lessons, grow in your knowledge and skill. Is it a sport? Join clubs and park and rec leagues and keep active in it. You see what I'm saying right? Be bold, let the thing that makes you sing be weaved into the practical parts of your life and don't let it simmer down to nothing, let it gently boil until maybe one day it becomes the main ingredient of your life.
Part of living a bolder life is to take risks. To put yourself out there and see what might happen. Many lessons go along with that but today I want to focus solely on what the quote from Radmacher says to me, and perhaps to you as well.
I think that sometimes the thing that makes us sing (in heart, in spirit, etc) doesn't make sense on the practical level (income, etc) so we often place it on the back burner and watch it simmer away down to nothing while we engage in a more practical way of living. But perhaps that isn't so practical after all. Our souls can dry up and burn out in the practical applications of life. But we have to eat, right? We need to have a roof over our heads, right? Right and yet...
If it (what is "it" for you?) makes you sing then get creative, take it off the back burner of your life and begin to let it boil. Let it enter into the practical parts of your life, move yourself closer to it so it doesn't get left to burn out. I think part of the problem is we want all or nothing. And the reality of life is we can't have all or nothing. We have to weave into our lives our passions and see if they will be allowed to become our reality at some point. Very few of us get to do that but many of us can have the thing that makes us sing enrich our lives which will always make us feel bolder about living in the practical ways. And part of living boldly is to persevere. Keep it up, don't give up on the thing that makes you sing. You literally never know when it might become more of a reality.
What makes you sing? Is it creating something (sculptures, pottery, paintings, food, etc)? Take a class, keep engaged in it. Is it writing (screenplays, short stories, books, articles, etc)? Keep it up, at the very least write a blog (gee, think I might be speaking from experience on this one? *grin*) so that you are compelled to write, no matter what it is and no matter who might read it. Is it music (singing, instruments, writing music, etc)? Keep in lessons, grow in your knowledge and skill. Is it a sport? Join clubs and park and rec leagues and keep active in it. You see what I'm saying right? Be bold, let the thing that makes you sing be weaved into the practical parts of your life and don't let it simmer down to nothing, let it gently boil until maybe one day it becomes the main ingredient of your life.
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