Permission to Just...Be

Stop DOING and Start BEING

How are you right now? Like really. Right now as you read this. How are you?

Whatever it is you’re going through right now . . . whatever it is you’re enduring or muddling through or just simply trying to survive . . .

I want to give you permission . . . to just . . . be.

You don’t have to be World’s Best Mom or World’s Best Employee or really World’s Best anything.

You don’t have to write an award-winning sonnet.

You don’t have to tackle that spring cleaning or that big goal.

You don’t have to be productive at all.

Maybe, in this moment, you don’t have to solve anything or prove anything or figure anything out.

Maybe for right now, you can just let it all go. Let go of the endless what ifs and relax into the what is—this present moment, reading this post, where you don’t have to do anything other than just be.

Maybe what you need to do instead of moving forward frantically with no idea where you’re headed is just be still.

Be angry if you need to be.

Be scared if you need to be.

Be honest.

Be lost.

Be uncertain.

Be whatever it is you are feeling without trying to put a happy sheen or a positive spin on it.

That’s how you move on. That’s how you survive. That’s how you become.

Not by running in the endless hamster wheel of mindless productivity but by choosing to be at peace with whatever it is you need to do right now in this moment to get through this hard thing.

If that’s not wearing pants for three days in a row…so be it.

If that’s bingeing Netflix and eating ice cream…so be it.

If that’s running five miles every day…so be it.

If that’s shouting and screaming and cursing and punching pillows…so be it.

Just . . . let . . . yourself . . . be.

Whatever it is you’re doing to get through the day right now…for now, it is enough.

You are enough.

Take a deep breath, and let it be enough.

Take a deep breath, and let it be.

Take a deep breath, and just . . . be.

Learning to just BE in my life, and to let my life just BE exactly what it is, rather than what I think it SHOULD be, has changed my life. And I know it will change yours, too. That’s just one reason why I wrote my new book, Turn Toward the Sun…to help others learn to do less DOING and more BEING. Are you ready to let go of mindless activity and turn toward the sun with me today?

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All for now,

Mandy