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September 21, 2007

Give Yourself Permission to Claim Your Life

ME Liz Strauss wrote this at 6:40 am

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The First Way

In January, I wrote these words.

I want to have
the time of my life.

I wrote ten ways to live your life. The first way was to claim it.

Give Yourself Permission to Claim Your Life

You know you can do this. What is a few minutes in the context of the hundreds of thousands you spend in a life?

  1. Stop what you’re doing.

  2. Sit and breathe in the air a bit.

  3. Notice the feeling that begins to become you.

  4. Keep noticing that feeling until you forget about the breathing, until you are comfortable just being.

  5. Name that being feeling “living.” Don’t try to make it into anything.

  6. When you feel like a human, get up and do something to claim this life you’re living.

Go Out to Claim It

Here are a few ways you might do that, in case this notion is new to you.

  1. See the sun rise. See a beautiful sky. See a smile you put on someone’s face.

  2. Eat something delicious. Share a marvelous meal with a friend.

  3. Send yourself fresh flowers and give one away.

  4. Listen to the sounds of nature that you don’t usually hear.

  5. Take the longest shower or bubble bath in your experience.

  6. Kiss someone you love. Follow that with a hug.

Most folks don’t need ideas to fill our life moments. But we might need an occasional reminder to fill our moments with life.

How will you live the time of your life?

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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11 Comments to “Give Yourself Permission to Claim Your Life”

  1. September 21st, 2007 at 7:03 am
    Shona Cameron said

    hi Liz
    Appreciating the reminder- its so wet here (manchester-Uk) today. I will go out in the rain rather than hide away from it. Remembering that I want to live every moment whatever that moment brings
    Shona
    PS am new to this and am enjoying your blog- have a great sense of invitation from you to join in

  2. September 21st, 2007 at 7:29 am
    ME Strauss said

    Hi Shona!
    Welcome! I’ve been to Manchester! It’s lovely there. :)

    Not long ago I wrote “But the rain isn’t a sadness.

    It’s a shower. It’s clean air and a ligher sky flled with hope, telling me my heart is right, my heart is true to north, to my soul. . . .

    And the sun is joy.”

    Thank you for accepting my invitation. :)

  3. September 21st, 2007 at 7:47 am
    Karin H. said

    Great timing Liz!

    Just off the phone with a company who let us down big time.
    So when I read this I stopped what I was doing (grumbling, feeling angry, organising and implementing plan B) and smiled.

    Later today I’ll hope to comply with your last claim-item ;-)

    Karin H. (Keep It Simple Sweetheart, specially in business)

  4. September 21st, 2007 at 7:49 am
    ME Strauss said

    Oh wow! Karin,
    Your comment is also timed perfectly. Thank you. :)

  5. September 21st, 2007 at 7:55 am
    Karin H. said

    Trust you to make me curious!

    Karin H

  6. September 21st, 2007 at 7:58 am
    ME Strauss said

    Sorry, I was just working on something that I finding exciting and I can’t find the words I need to communicate part of the concept. :)

  7. September 21st, 2007 at 7:39 pm
    gp said

    all there is, is now breathe in serenity, peacefulness…like “all is well”.. .breathe out… (hmm… the mare relaxed too)

    gp in montana who thanx u muchly for the reminder

  8. September 21st, 2007 at 10:01 pm
    Steve Roesler said

    Well, Liz,

    After two non-stop days in NYC I got back to the
    woods here in South Jersey, watched the deer and the goldfinch, smoked a cigar, and breathed deeply (yeah, I know).

    After a nice meal, a glass of wine, and a return to the back porch and the crickets, life is full.

    Thanks for the reminder.

  9. September 21st, 2007 at 10:03 pm
    ME Strauss said

    Hi GP!
    I’m smiling that all is well where you are. I’m getting things to together here to make the sunshine soon. I like the sound of relaxing. :)

  10. September 21st, 2007 at 10:04 pm
    ME Strauss said

    Ah Mr. Steve,
    I’m going to have to see that porch one day. It so makes me think of our back porch in Austin. :)

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