All In

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With a new year starting, I bet you have a new adventure facing you. And there's a chance you're coming up with hesitations why you should just ignore it, and get on with life as usual. Living a wellness lifestyle, and making power pantry choices, can be a lot like that. Maybe you have benefited from improvements in your food choices and you've stepped up your physical activity more than any time in your past. Once you have gained ground in this way, you may be compelled to go further...but the pull of 'normal' makes you hesitate. I say, "don't settle for normal."

While I haven't always thought this way, in recent years I've tried to live 'all in'. Life comes at us from all directions, good and bad, but I have to believe that what shows up will ultimately yield some kind of good, either in my life or the life of someone around me. So if I decide to be all in, technically, we should move the ball down the field that much faster, and get to the good stuff, right?

And the blur of life may leave us asking 'why?' Why this? Why that? What next? But maybe those aren't the right questions. Along with being all in, it can also be great to just ask 'why not?' Crazy things may happen, followed by crazy opportunities or alternatives we've never considered. But that's what showed up today, so, why not?

As long as we're enriching our life and the lives of those around us, and what we're striving for isn't illegal, immoral or unethical, I think we should go all in. Choose to lean into the current reality, while holding firm to the vision you have for your future, and you too can benefit from being 'all in.'

By the Way

One issue with living 'all in' is that it may look like you've gone off the deep end. Friends and family may not recognize the new you, and begin showing concern for your mental stability... It's okay, though. If you've committed to new ways of thinking and living which fill you with life and light, and make you more able to share it with others, where's the harm in that? Go be awesome, and maybe you'll rub off a little bit as you do life with others. Remember, "obsessed is a word lazy people use to describe the dedicated."