Success depends on you and your willingness to start showing up. Just by merely making an appearance may lead you to a new adventure. Success in a friendship is about being there. Success in a relationship is spending time with the one you love. In a career, it is when you contribute to the workplace or the team. Participation in what you want to do and sometimes what you don’t. Life happens for those who show up.
When you stand in your power, committed to taking the role of making something happen for someone else, then the unexpected occurs. Doing unto others and not minding the returns. I had one colleague say, “I had fifty dinner parties since I moved to this city, all in hopes of meeting and befriending people and still no close friendships.” The motive for the coworker was factoring a return on investment, when it should be just giving without the expectation of receiving.
Choose to spend time contributing, just take part in something, in anything. Support someone and become a cheerleader for their cause. Your wish to have a voice, communicate. Hope to be seen, attend. Desire for love, go out and mingle. Your goal for a promotion, strive to do your best. Requiring an adventure, make it happen, every journey starts with a small step, start planning. You want to live fully, always show up.
CHOOSE TO MAKE APPEARANCES
Is there somewhere you should go? Something you should do? Someone, you want to meet? Seek out new experiences, find places, people, and events, and start making an appearance. Then something magical transpires; things, situations, and circumstances start showing up for you. Life is about being true to who you are, to what you value and by giving, presenting, producing, performing until eventually, everything falls into place. Just showing up with no expectation but with the belief that somehow, somewhere, sometime there will be a breakthrough and surprisingly serendipity, and synchronicity delights you by guiding you toward an unexpected adventure.
What are you hiding? Is it something from others, or from yourself. Find your truth. The more you show up, the more you’ll be found.
LEAVE YOUR COMFORT ZONE, START SHOWING UP
Be authentic, be open, be helpful, most importantly, be there for others. Leave the comfort zone and take a chance, take a risk toward something better. If something isn’t working though shows potential, don’t give up. If something is promising and looks as though it’s the end, refuse to let go. Keep your head up as you continue to move forward and something unexpected is sure to come your way. Invest in who you are, in your potential, ability, talent, and in your generosity. Challenge yourself to step bravely toward what it is you fear the most. Face what prevents you from taking part in something other than the familiar.
MAKE IT HAPPEN
Be your private cheerleader by showing up for you, for your beliefs, for your values, for your dreams. Before we gain anything, we envision, plan, pursue, and strive. If you want something to happen, you have to make it happen. See it, feel it, and believe it. Were there events, which required your presence, however, you declined. Perhaps an invitation you refused to acknowledge. Then one day you become frustrated enough to crawl out from the bond of the self-sabotage ritual we all tend to grow weary in; frustrated enough to finally decide to show up. Only to discover it was the best time of your life.
START SHOWING UP AND LIFE WILL SHOW UP FOR YOU
Show up even when you don’t feel like it, even when you feel discouraged, or tired. It’s about facing the challenges, the fears, the doubts and choosing to walk in your strength, courage, and conviction. Honor who you were created to be, the one, the only you, the person that always makes an appearance and when you do, life starts showing up for you.