“Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just Dance,” Anne Lamott.  I’ve often been confused by the idea of someone deciding that one way was THE way.  The idea that we need to compete in things that are meant to be unique to us and flow from the soul, and that something we hear in the soul is somehow wrong.  Everyone will have an opinion on something at some point but we have the ultimate say in continuing on our path or not.  We get to decide what is right for us.  We allow ourselves to get in the way if we start telling ourselves the story of comparison and that the only way something can be good is if we do it the same way it was always done.  The greatest pieces of art come when we are fully in tune with who we are.  We hear something that is meant only for us and we create something that we are meant to, and we act on it to bring it to life.  That isn’t something we get from doing what we are told—that is something we get from going out and learning the steps ourselves.  It doesn’t matter if our steps look a little different from everyone else.  They are meant to look different.

Just as no one can tell us what to do, no one can tell us what to feel.  We are the only ones who know what we feel and what feels right.  We are the only ones who know when we are ready to move forward.  Many of us make the mistake of thinking things need to look or feel a certain way to move forward when all we need is the belief that it’s the right thing to do.  Waiting for things to be perfect is a stall tactic and I am all to familiar with that.  If we wait for perfection we will never move.  I told the story about these specific pens I really liked that I was saving to use for a special time.  It never came and I ended up having to throw those pens out because they dried up.  I just found some lens wipes that I’ve had because I was saving them thinking I couldn’t get more, and they are all dried up as well.  We don’t want to let the well of our creativity and our emotion and the possibilities we all have dry up because we are waiting for the right time.  Now is the right time because it is the only time we have.  Take every precious moment we have with those we love and do the things we love.  There isn’t a right way—there is only the way that calls to us.  That is the way that is right for us, and that is all that matters.