Blog #765: When You’re Hard to Find

When I’m feeling…

Dry.
Down.
Stuck.
Empty.
Surviving.

I know what has to happen.

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To FIND Me…
I MOVE Me.

There are days I don’t like sitting inside my head.

My confidence gets smaller.
My body hurts…extra.
My patience gets shorter.
My next move in life…gets harder to find.

And suddenly…

My spirit feels heavy.

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I’ve visited that place enough times in life to know…

I need to move.

Not because movement is the magic wand.
Not because movement fixes my stuff.
But because doing nothing is a habitual liar.

When I’m stagnant for too long…
I start believing the worst thoughts in my head.

That I can’t.
That I shouldn’t.
That what comes next isn’t worth it.

My mind shrinks in potential.
My vision for me shrinks.
My doing shrinks…massively.

That’s when I hear the Whisper.
From somewhere deeper.

“MOVE!”

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Sometimes…

It’s not more knowing we need.
It’s more moving we need.

So…

I get off my ass.

Out of bed.
Into the book.
Out the door.
Onto the trail.
Into the work.
Into the world.

I move.

My legs.
My head.
My attitude.

Me.

And as I begin to move…

My attitude stops working against me.

Not because I found my best.

Because I stopped feeding my worst.

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Maybe…

You don’t need to know what tomorrow looks like.

You don’t need your 100th motivational quote.

You don’t need to sit there trying to figure yourself out.

Maybe you just need to move YOUR butt.

Do it when you get the thought to MOVE…

Before your mind talks you out of it.

Again.

Maybe this reminder hits you today, too.

To FIND me…

I MOVE me.

S.

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