The grass isn’t always greener on the other side!
If the grass looks greener on the other side then start
tending to your own grass until it is vibrant and filled with radiance! Why are you looking at other people's grass anyway when your attention could be focused on making yours amazing!
This
week has been quite a week for me. Two children’s books released and snapped up
by audio producers, a return to work after being signed off with Deep Vein
Thrombosis and being able to see the world with a new perspective. It is funny
how when you are immersed in routine that you live on automatic pilot. How
often do you stop to take in your surroundings? How often do you stop and say
actually I am living the perfect life for me? I would guess that it isn’t that
often. Don’t you find it amazing that all your choices and decisions in life
have resulted in where you are now? Those decisions must have been made because
you felt your situation would improve… Am I correct? So why do people look at
other people’s lives and wish they were them? Or wish they had their life? Why
do we assume that life is greener on the other side?
A good example of the grass being greener was when I was at
a rowing championship. I was staying in a cottage with a group of mothers (who
were there for their children). They said to me they wished they could live my
life: a life of freedom, creativity and working in business. I had never
considered that people would look at my lifestyle from the outside and consider
my grass was greener. I pointed out that in my opinion they had it pretty good.
They all had wonderful husbands who provided for them and they had a family, lovely
homes and all they needed. They had not had to work up a corporate ladder or
find ways to enable numerous incomes. Instead they had had the opportunity to
focus on nurture, bringing life into the world and they had the opportunity to
do that in comfort rather than struggle. I had struggled, seriously struggled
and there were times where I would have gladly been saved by an opportune
prince. Unfortunately there was no prince making that showy arrival, so instead
I realised my life was my responsibility and rather than waste time admiring
people’s grass and wishing it was mine, I thought well how do I make my grass
the greenest it can be? Since each person’s life is their responsibility and
their grass state is representational of their life, then tending to one’s own
grass is the best thing a person can do.
At this point I would like you to ask how you make your
grass as green as it can be? The thing
is it isn’t just about having more or earning more money, it can quite simply
be a shift of mental perspective. Just think that there are people out there
who aspire to have the life you have. I know… It is a strange thought. The way
I see it is if you have access to the internet and have the opportunity to read
this blog then you are rich. You have the capacity to purchase the technology
to be able to access the world. You have the funds to buy the tools. You are
not sitting in a hovel digging through shit.
Through doing this evaluation, I realised that my life was
good and worked perfectly for me. As much as those images of people living in huge
luxurious mansions bombard us, I realised that actually I would feel very
lonely residing in such a huge space. I would be like a pea rattling around a
warehouse. My little apartment is perfect for me. It is peaceful, cosy and
filled with an air of femininity. In truth it is beautiful, has turrets and is
minimalist. So you might wave a mansion at me and I would smile and know that
in terms of where I live my grass is very green.
It was a few years ago now that I saw through the big
illusion. That illusion is fascinating – we are fed images of ideals in films
and adverts. They are not real. We are shown images of the ideal bodies, yet we
are all different. So why not love the body you have and treat it well? Don’t starve
it, treat it to great nutrition and it is worth shifting perspective to consider
food as medicine and building blocks for the body. Find an exercise you love so that your body
radiates with health. Blood moving around the body stops it stagnating. Finally
money – we all chase money to be rich because everyone else wants to be rich.
Yes money is a decorated piece of paper to accumulate but what if all that
effort to accumulate results in devaluation? It happened to Cyprus and Iceland.
So with that in mind, you can realise that actually what you want is the
feeling of being rich and that comes from appreciating what you have. It is so
simple.
The moment I realised I was rich was quite out of the blue.
I stood on my paddleboard on a beautiful expanse of water. It was close to
sunset and the clouds were decorated with pink and the reflection made heaven
and earth one. I stood there in that moment and thought I couldn’t pay for
this. This endless chase for money is ridiculous because it is continuous. When
will you ever have enough? You know the answer to that... For me - beauty and true wealth comes from being immersed in the experience.
That moment on the paddleboard was when I realised I had stopped to smell the
roses and seen the beauty in life. That beauty had not cost a thing – it was nature
working its daily miracles. What was it that made me rich? It was the
recognition and the feeling of a great connection with the planet. A feeling of
great wealth rose up inside me. I series of pictures connected, as if there was
a thread throughout my life. I saw the sequence of great moments of inspiration.
It was then that I realised that my grass was as green as I wished to make it.
I just needed to focus on the feeling of being wealthy with what I have because
I have access to that whenever I wish. I also realised that the grass is not
necessarily greener on the other side. Instead it is far better to focus on my
own grass, tend to my own grass and then take it with me in the form of radiant
turf!
I hope this inspires
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