To Live With Less Fear On Borrowed Time

There will come a day when we take our last breath.

The self-discovery journey from birth to death is preciously short. Acknowledging this truthful reality is not meant to trigger angst but to bring deeper awareness to the fact that we live on borrowed time each day. How we intentionally choose to live, lead and love with it is more in our control than we think.

If you knew the exact day, hour, minute and second your last breath would take place, how would you lead your life while managing your time and energy from that moment forward? What would you do with your sacred borrowed time:

• Would you visit your dearest family and friends?

• Write that book, do that project that feeds your soul or start that business?

• Take that trip to a different city, state, or country, exploring the beauty of a new setting and culture?

• Let go of the past, not remaining stuck in what could have and should have happened?

• Live with less fear, take more risks, and step out of your comfort zones?

• Would you apologize to someone you have hurt or forgive that person you felt did you wrong?

• Would you remove yourself from all negative and unhealthy people, habits, places, and situations that no longer serve your evolution and truth?

• Or would you realize dysfunction is not love, and the beauty of love starts with the inward journey of self-love?

Yet while we know life is finite and can be here one day and gone the next, we still tend to delay and quarantine our dreams. We still tend to postpone living in guidance to our truth out of fear, self-doubt, the inner perfectionist, and not feeling worthy enough.

As leaders and positive difference-makers, we are worthy of giving ourselves seasons of grace for change. When we expand, evolve, and stretch ourselves beyond yesterday's comfort, we grow in the present.

So when we think about our lives through the lens of borrowed time, we ultimately take back our power to heal, love, and get to know ourselves better. We are granted the ownership of redefining and reimagining what it means to be authentically human and enough in our bodies again.

When the body is exhausted, the mind will often create worries to focus on. We don't need to know and worry when our last breaths will come because that is guaranteed. What we can do today in our leadership is to live fully and with less fear and self-doubt. Today, we can touch and empower another life with empathy, kindness, an open heart, and a genuine listening ear.

Life is easy. Just study Mother Nature for a few minutes. But living is hard. Finding peace in the storms can challenge us to our roots. Yet we are always in control to make it less complicated by freeing ourselves from yesterday's burdens that are not equipping and preparing us for the possibilities in this present moment to embrace more of our divine uniqueness and greatness.

As we lead ourselves and others today, may we focus on allowing our doubts to dissolve, our fears to flee, and our worries to fade away into the light of our awareness as we make the borrowed time moments count and our masterpiece.