The time is NOW!!

All day a part of me was feeling down because I supposed to be in Florida celebrating with my closest friends. However, so consumed with wasting time feeling bad for myself, it distracted me from appreciating the smaller but bigger moments that happened today.

It started off with an unexpected email from one of my best friends just expressing her faith in me and her taking a moment to make me see myself the way that she sees me. I don’t know what it was about that particular email because this is by far not the first time one of my friends have expressed their faith or offered their support but I was instantly touched and something within me turned on.

Of course with the constant distractions in the average day that feeling started to wane but suddenly that fleeting moment was brought back to life when I was visited by another friend of mine this evening. We had such an intriguing conversation and I walked away from it feeling so moved and liberated.

For far too long I have conjured up countless excuses as to why I am not actively pursuing what I feel I am here to do and today made me realize that the TIME IS NOW! I admit that I was a victim of allowing fear control aspects of my life and I know that living life in fear at the end of the day is not living life at all. And now is the time to live by what I claim to know. I know I have a lot to offer. I know that I am talented. I worked on my self confidence over the years so the problem has not been self doubt. It was the fear that what I have to offer won’t be appreciated and the last thing I wanted was to expose my inner self only for it to be done in vain. But I realize now that I have been foolish to think this way. And if in fact I’m able to affect at least one person, I have done my job. All is takes is one person. All it takes is one day. All is takes is one lucid moment. All is takes is faith.

I am so blessed to have the life I live and the friends and family that I have.

I end this post with my best friend’s and one of my favorite quotes by Nelson Mandela:

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?" Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

Give it your all to be your best self everyday. :)