Impress Yourself

We only have this day.  Today, push beyond your limits.  Go farther than you thought you could.  Do your best.  Your best is good enough.  Today, I am stepping into my life in a relationship with myself.  I have been on this planet for more than a half century and I am still rocking it. 

I have had two hip replacement surgeries and today I did something that had been on my list a long time.  A new Soul Cycle opened in my area.  I did not know whether I could do it.  My fears were high.  I purposely did this alone.  I wanted this experience to be with myself and without any comparison to another.  As I walked into the darkened room full of cycles, I was nervous.  Could I do it?  What if I had to go to the bathroom and I was locked into that bike?  How would I ever last 45 minutes?  As the music began to play and get louder, I heard the moderator say just feel the beat and go with it.  Take a journey.  It was then that I realized how elated I was to be there.  I had not felt this excited in a long time.  Not even during sex.  As I was pumping and sweating and going with the music, I felt my emotions coming up and I just closed my eyes and connected to them.  I let them flow and I heard my inner voice say, yes, we are home.  We have to notice things around us that excite us, and we need to pursue those things.  If they do not register high with one of your five senses, then it needs to be noticed.  Only do things that make you feel something.   Today was exhilarating!  There was an emotional release for me.  I was impressing myself.  I was connecting with myself.  I was experiencing joy.  Joy because I was doing something that was challenging for me, and my body was going beyond what I thought it could do.  I took on the class and I stayed in the present and I completed it.  This is the most fun I have had in a very long time and I realized that I had not shaved my legs, done my makeup or had my hair blown out.  I just showed up as me and I was enough.  Many of my women friends and family impress me.  My aunt Beverly who still walks around the lake near her home every day, rain or shine; my cousin Mindi who has been married over 30 years and is a wonderful sister, mother, aunt and wife and is sugar and alcohol free; My cousin Monica who runs Marathons; My friend Victoria who hikes daily and ‘shakes it up’ everywhere she goes and my friend Deb who rides her huge percheron horse on the beach.  All these women impress and inspire me and today I am one of them. I am inspired and committed to do my best every day to connect with my inner self and do what stretches me to be my best and brings me and others joy.   It is my wish to inspire and show others how to show up and do their best every day until they can see their beauty and impress themselves.