Are you surviving or thriving?

How do you face the world when you walk?

🔥 Do you feel the sun on your face, breathing in the abundance of air?
🔥 Do you see the challenges, and feel both nervous and excited to meet them?
🔥 Do you hear the pulse of your own heartbeat as you step out of your comfort zone?

Or do you:

🪨 Bury your head in your device scrolling through socials to keep you distracted?
🪨 Constantly look at your watch counting down the time until 5pm?
🪨 Avoiding other people so you don't have to pretend to smile?


Same walk.
Different feelings.
Different attitude.
Different approach.

When we are merely surviving, we often contract and numb ourselves through distractions such as alcohol, devices, TV, drugs. There is a sense of constant churn through life, living pay day to pay day. Simply existing.

Thriving has a different quality. Thriving can feel like a sense of opening, looking into the world as you walk, connecting with people - simply with the eyes. Thriving can feel like an opening to opportunities - whether planned or unexpected. You may or may not look forward to each day, but you know that you have options - you can choose to take them or not.

To choose to thrive takes courage. There is the unknown AND the potential to see, experience and feel more. The courage to step out of your comfort zone. The courage to be vulnerable and be open to life's ups and downs. The courage to experience something different.

The courage to be YOU.

Wholeheartedly you.

How does that feel?