Fill in the blank? What? What is it for you? Have you noticed how this question changes frequently with the different phases in your life and different reality that you live?
I keep thinking this while I am holding Max in one arm and Jack is snuggled in the other. When they are both content and so am I – wow this is the best place I can imagine myself right now (spit up and all). So when I receive this wave of LOVE and Gratitude-and I try to bathe in it for the moment. Feeling these higher beautiful states.
When or what are the other moments that you have experienced this type of gratitude or contentment? After a good nights sleep? A Sunday you have nothing to do and can just really relax? A clean house ? A great meal? A great day in your business or job? Time with your partner? Helping others? Seeing beautiful colors in fall?
As I have gotten older and stopped thinking my life was going to happen later when “big” events had occurred (again fill in the blank, when I am “married, debt free, have kids, grow my business, changed my body etc.”) I realized these little moments are the major successes. To embrace whats good right now. There is so much of it. This is fulfillment. Much of my life I have missed out on this, because I was worried about the big things and what came next.
If we can see beautiful colors, there is gratitude. If we can, digest and enjoy food with someone we love, there is gratitude. If we can share who we really are with someone close to us. These are fulfilling things in life.
To recognize this earlier on sets us up to be really present to what our life is offering us right now. Doesn’t mean we stop having big goals – it’s great to have future big goals and work towards them! This just means don’t forget there is really fulfilling things happening along the way. Living a life that each day has moments you pay attention to and are “in love” with. This is fulfillment to me. I try to remind myself to be as present as I can be and its work in progress.