Have you ever felt grateful to yourself for something you did in the past?
Yesterday, last week, five years ago?
- For getting enough sleep.
- For doing the dishes.
- For the grocery shopping that means you can easily cook dinner tonight.
- For the care to your relationships that means you feel support from your social network.
- For the role you’ve played in your community that repays you with respect and self-esteem.
- For having the discipline to save 10% of your income whenever you can.
Gifts from your past self arrive in the present.
They are a gift made possible by the oh so everyday and yet mysterious function of time.
Time passes. This moment is temporary. Vanishing like sand running out of your hands. Sorry for the cliche, but it is so apt!
Your past self cannot time travel but its gifts do. Your present self cannot travel to the future but its gifts will.
Take a moment to thank your past self for the gifts you are receiving today.
And invite yourself to consider …
What can I do now, today, to offer a gift to my future self?
How can I send a time traveling gift to support my future happiness?
Is it your time?
Making your impact is a long game. It is a gift from your past and present selves, sent to the future. Sent with love and hope and the vulnerability of a risk.
- Without certainty.
- Without knowing for sure.
- Without any kind of guarantee.
Making your impact takes the courage of commitment. Of committing yourself to stand for something. To believe in something.
Taking that risk with love and dedication to the future.
Making your difference is an act of power for sure. But also an act of vulnerability.
And that’s what makes it worth doing.
Do you ever find yourself wondering if it is your time?
Your time to make a choice, to take an action, to take the risk of committing to the future?
It is a trick question, like the one we all know:
When is the best time to plant a tree?
30 years ago is the answer.
And the next best time?
Right now.
In this moment, the present moment, invite yourself to feel your gratitude for the gifts from your past self. Then make your commitment towards the future your present self deserves.
Give yourself a time-traveling gift. Send your love into the future.
You’ve got this.
The world needs you, happy, resourced and ready to go.
Love
Hellene