Don’t like it? ACE IT!

“The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind -Maya Angelou 

Place your hand over you heart. Do you feel that beating? Place two fingers on your wrist. Can you feel your pulse? You are alive. There is only one heartbeat like yours. Everyone has a unique heartbeat that electrically beats different than everyone else.

WHO cited the average life expectancy, globally, in 2016 was 72 years.  That’s honestly not very long. The Bowhead whale can live to 200 years old.  An Icelandic clam was recorded to be 507 years old. Jurupa Oak trees in California are estimated to be 13,000 years old. The President (no, not that guy), the oldest know living giant sequoia in California is 3,200 years old. We, humans, are here but for a fraction of the time as many other living things. 

Okay so did I give you all of the information so you’d get a few more points during trivia at your local pub this week, no (I mean, hey let me know if it does!). I am just trying to put into perspective how little time we really have.  And the reason for that is so we can understand how valuable it is that we spend that little time the wisest. 

If you are unhappy in a relationship. If you don’t like your job. If you want to move to another place. If you aren’t satisfied with your body. If you want things you don’t have or have things you don’t want. If there is something in your life that isn’t the way you want it then you have 3 choices. Adapt to it. Change it. Eliminate it. 

Adapt. Change. Eliminate. 

ACE it! 

You’ve got one chance at this thing called life. Make it count. Don’t settle for less and become complacent. Don’t just simply exist and not live. Don’t just go with the flow of things, not really caring. Be brave. Take risks. Fear making changes, but do it anyways! Don’t let chances pass you by. Step out on a limb. BREAK OUT OF YOUR COMFORT ZONE! DO YOU HEAR ME?!? No growth will occur in your normality! If you’ve read any of my other blogs you’ve probably seen this but here it is again: A ship is safe in the harbor, but that’s not what ships are for. Let that sink in (no pun intended). 

Only we know what we truly desire. Only we can hear our hearts speak to us. And we are the only ones who can stop ourselves from living the life we want. We are our biggest champion and warrior, and yet equally, our biggest enemy. 

I’ve been all over the place with this message so far. It’s all about finding happiness and what we want in life. So take inventory of your life. Make sure you are still working on the things that are going right. But for everything you see as a negative in your life, ACE it! Make every second you have, count.