“You are the truth from foot to brow.
Now, what else would you like to know?”
– Rumi
There’s a blogger I’ve been following named Seth Godin. I like the way he thinks. I find his posts to be clean-burning, out-of-box, and dynamic. Mostly I’m amazed how he lasers his message in a few short sentences (something I would love to be able to do someday).
Seth wrote a post recently called “You Matter,” which touched me and has had me playing with these wonder questions ever since: How do I make a difference? Why do I matter? How do I matter? …Does it even matter?
As Seth Godin puts it…
When you love the work you do and the people you do it with, you matter.
When you leave the world a better place than you found it, you matter.
When you touch the people in your life through your actions (and your words), you matter.
When the room brightens when you walk in, you matter.
And when the legacy you leave behind lasts for hours, days or a lifetime, you matter…” [Read full post]
My personal inquiry led to these free-associated variations:
- When I put people at ease, I matter.
- When I laugh at my own quirks and flaws, I matter.
- When I can let others’ blow off steam without taking it, or them, personally, I matter.
- When I take time to nourish myself (take a hot bath, enjoy my coffee time, meditate, listen to the birds), I matter.
- When I wash the dishes with total love for the process: the feeling of the water, the scent of the soap, and the conscious placement of the dishes in the drainer, I matter.
- When I put the dishes away with the same reverence, I matter.
- When I can allow myself to make a mistake without beating myself up (for days afterwards), I matter.
- When I can say no and not feel guilty, I matter.
- When I keep writing my heart out – even when it feels like nobody is reading what I write, I matter.
- When I speak from the heart, I matter. (And even when I can’t manage it…I matter too.)
- When I notice the energy in the room brightening simply by showing up and being present, I matter
How about you? What happens when you sit comfortably, take a deep breath, and enjoy the exercise of playing with these phrases…
- Why I matter…
- How I matter…
Comments, experiences, shifts, synchronicities, ah-has…Feel free to share whatever moves you or through you!
I read somewhere that when we are in the moment fully focused on what we’re doing, that is how Source Energy enters our world.
And it’s quite obvious that dealing with someone who is distracted by multi-tasking is like eating cardboard.
Real people prefer other real people, not unfocused biological automations. Ever heard someone say “How are you?” And before you even have time to answer, they say “Fine” as if you had answered and asked them how they were in return?
So yes, we all matter but only when we’re really here doing something with love.