How happy will you allow yourself to be on International Day of Happiness?

Are you one of the purpose-people who doesn’t take good care of their wellbeing?

Be honest!

Well, in sixteen days, on 20th March, it’s International Day of Happiness and my invitation to you is that you start taking real care of your wellbeing and allow yourself to be truly, without a shadow of a doubt, overflowing with happiness on that day.

Why? Because as an agent of change, you are a role-model of hope, optimism and living a life of fulfilment.

If you, as a revolutionary advocating for others to lead flourishing lives and protecting the planet, don’t know how to create that life for yourself then how will you truly lead the way?

Break the rules keeping you stuck
When there is so much going on the world, maybe you’ve made a pact with yourself, “I can’t be truly happy until I’ve saved the world.”

Often, as agents of change, we fall into the trap of expressing our compassion through fear-based actions, staying in jobs, roles and relationships that are long over-due their sell-by date!

Sometimes, we harden our hearts and lose track of living our life values in the everyday. Maybe, we feel compelled to burn-out to show some impact, to demonstrate that we acted.

We act in these disempowering ways with so much positive intent, but we actually limit our capacity to make good change happen around us when we act from this space.

These rules are made to be broken. After all, you are a warrior of light.

You are unprecedented
Or maybe, you lost track of what actually makes you happy? Maybe you never really knew? Maybe you are still thinking that it’s someone else’s responsibility to make you happy, to rescue you?

As a rule-breaker and a change-maker, your first commitment is to know yourself, to own yourself as a whole person, to recognise and celebrate that you are unprecedented.

There has NEVER been anyone like you before this moment and there never will be again. You are a unique blend of you-ness.

For every moment on this planet, be ‘flow in action’ - the pure energy of creating, because your creativity is the gateway to living your life purpose.

Start owning your happiness
It is time to take a new perspective. In the exquisite words of Martha Postlewaite’s poem, Clearing:

“Do not try to save
the whole world
or do anything grandiose.
Instead, create
a clearing
in the dense forest
of your life
and wait there
patiently,
until the song
that is your life
falls into your own cupped hands
and you recognize and greet it.
Only then will you know
how to give yourself
to this world so worth
of rescue.”

It’s time to create a clearing and discover, perhaps for the first time, what actually makes you happy. Then, ask yourself how you can DO more of that every day.

How happy will you allow yourself to be on International Day of Happiness?

How will you overflow with joy by taking back ownership of your everyday happiness, as your unprecedented self?

​Living your flourishing life does not mean that you have abandoned compassion for ‘this world so worth of rescue’ – it’s the door that you open from the inside to make more and lasting change.

I Am Unprecedented® #flowinaction #wellbeing #sdg3 #resilience #grit #changemaker #purposedriven  #happiness #joy