Motivational Monday: Purpose for the Present 10/03/16 | Tristen Coffee We wake up in the mornings a little too late. We hit the snooze button for the fourth time and wipe our groggy eyes while our thumbs reach to tap our email inbox. We breathe in deeply as the notifications bring us back to reality. We wish we could just stay in the covers and hang onto our dreams a little bit longer. It’s true. We go to bed so thankful to just breathe for a second, and then after another second we’re already asleep. Waking up to repeat. Walking through our lives like a broken record. Until we realize just that -something doesn’t feel whole. We forget our keys every five seconds because our minds are full of to-do lists that block us from the doing. We don’t remember the last time we were honest with others and ourselves when they ask us how our day is. We’re always “good”. But what is the definition of good, and do we even actually know how we are doing? Or does the last time we felt deeply connected to the joy and meaning of life and even to our closest friends feel like last year’s New Years resolution? When did we forget that our dreams happen when we are awake to them? Today, let’s wake up. There is so much purpose in the present. Because our purpose isn’t to be perfect, it isn’t to have it all together, and it isn’t to be or do the next big thing. The dogma of the world will pull and oh we feel it. Proclaiming and broadcasting that we aren’t enough, that what we are doing isn’t enough. That more is romantic and should be desired. But honestly in the honesty that whispers to us daily, we all know our purpose is simply to be loved and to love. And we can only love others to the measure that we love ourselves and we can only know love to the measure that we accept it for ourselves. Today let’s be present in our purpose of love. The mystery of its ways and the alluringness of how it makes us feel absolutely alive and empowered when we listen to its kindness. For there, is where we find the more. In completely other words, way to go Charmin Ultra! For they really were on to something so much more than just toilet paper –because less, truly is more. Less frenzy. Less to-do lists. More connecting. More attentiveness. More listening. There is purpose in the waking, in the wrestle, in the embracing, in the learning, in the seeking. Today let’s open our eyes to our purpose in the present. Let’s live awake and deeply connected to love. To feel, to ache to work out of a place of love with excellency, to be honest, to be okay with not having everything together, to understand that life at it’s core is good, and that we fail a lot. And we try again. And that is the beautiful thing, right now. Presently.