TURNING PRO

Hello my friends

this post is dedicated to everyone who has been struggling to pull through on the days when inspiration does not come naturally. We all have dreams but not all of us realise those dreams. I’m sure you’ve thought about loosing a few pounds, writing a book, opening your own business, saving money to travel the world or training up to design your own jewellery. But for many of us this stays a dream. Why? I think it has to do with priorities and not really putting the effort in when things get tricky. 

What really counts is not what you do when you feel inspired but what you do when you’re not in the mood for it. Stephen King famously writes 2,000 words every day. Not just when he feels like it, but actually every day. That’s how het gets his books written.Whatever it is you have in your mind, you’ve got to look at it as a full time job. I’m sure there are days when you’ve got to drag yourself out of bed and resort to all of your willpower to show up in work but you do it. It’s a matter of priority. I’m sure you’d know plenty of other things to do than spending 40 hours at work every week but you know best that in order to maintain a certain lifestyle and pay your bills you’ve got to put the work in. Can you imagine to only show up in your office, when you feel like it? Imagine telling your boss you cannot come in because you’ve got to do the washing and really, the floors should be polished as well. You wouldn’t even dream of going there, right? But how come we use those same excuses when it comes to getting back in shape or writing that book? Realising your dreams requires just the same amount of professionalism.

Time won’t just suddenly open up for you to do your thing. You got to make the time. Inspiration won’t just fly in the window every day just because you decide to follow your dream or decide on a goal that’s worth your while. As you know, I love yoga. I love every thing about it. I love practicing it, I love teaching it, I love writing about it, I love reading about it. But I do have my fair share of days when I don’t feel like hitting the mat for my own practice or when inspiration just stays out and I cannot get my class sequence as seamless as I’d like it to be. There will always be days when you feel like there is no point in even going there because anything and everything you do just turns out to be a disaster. These are the days that differentiate the ones who have big dreams from the ones who actually live their dreams. You’ve got to put the effort in whether you feel like it or not, whether you are in the mood for it or not, whether you have the time or not, whether you feel inspired or not.

It doesn’t matter whether you are training for a marathon or writing a book it’s not about having the perfect training session every time or finding the right words all of the time. It’s about clocking miles and putting words onto pages consistently. That’s what differentiates the ones who get the medal or the book deal from the rest of us.

So this week, don’t aim for perfection but aim for taking action.

PEACE. LOVE & HAPPINESS. Sibylle xx