Categories: awareness, needs, relax

I guarantee that if you’ve done any reading or listening to self-improvement that you’ve heard to live every day like it’s your last. Then you could say I love you, do the things you’ve been hesitating to do, and feel free. That’s wonderful - yet it’s not the whole story.

I doubt that any of you have actually done this. There’s always a next day, and the people I have lost haven’t really spent their last day in what I would call freedom. So I say turn the idea on it’s head and live everyday like it’s your first. Do you remember your first day?

• Cry. It helps you bring in oxygen and clears out emotions.
• Wiggle. Explore your body like you’ve never experienced it before - like it’s the first time touching your own thumb.
• Burp, cough, fart. OK - You might want to spent some private time with this one.
• Hold and be held. A baby will use it’s hands and fingers to grab and practice holding on - this is an exciting new world and finding a way to ground one’s self with support of a bigger, stronger, wiser person is a good thing.
• Sleep. If you try to live like it’s your last day - you probably won’t want to sleep. This makes the next day more difficult. Sleep a bunch to restore your readiness to continue living like it’s your first.
• Be cute. All babies are cute. They almost know how cute they are. They don’t wave it around - they just exude their cuteness.
• Never look back. It’s all future, baby. But not too fast - take your time and enjoy this new world. Every moment is it’s own, beautiful, simple, sweet, elegant, exciting, fantastic, gorgeous, brilliant, and shining moment.

Truly Yours,

Joseph Lyons

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