I’ve noticed that my living spaces have been dark these past 6 months, and I’m done with it. Burned through 3 light bulbs and taken to carrying a notebook to a favorite place near the canals… all to write in the light.
It’s not just dark spaces but hiding in them that I had become too accustomed to, so I went with my housemates to see a beautiful home right on the ocean, with design details that make you go, “I could get used to this,” and a view that leaves you gobstruck in stillness and silence.
“I want this,” I said, but first I had to decide to stop hiding. I hadn’t noticed I was doing that, by the way, but good friends and allies do, and gently bring it to your attention. So what did I come up with to do?
- Pick up the phone! It’s so easy these days to hide behind our telephone’s other functions that conversations seem a big deal. Make it not.
- If part of my work is to do social media and marketing, I’m putting myself – my authentic self – back in the equation. Out there. I’m Val Joy, and here’s a new picture!
- As an agent, own what it really is and my talent for it, instead of hiding behind my client.
- Don’t wait – hunkered down in my dark space – for the opportunities to come knocking on that door. Step out onto and into the Life Path that I designed for myself at some point. Have you had a reading by the way?
What do you resolve to do today when you decide to come out from hiding?
Fighting for Happiness 