Me Thinks

I read these suggestions from Steve Hitz this morning. Mr. Hitz is a co-founder of Launching Leaders Worlwide, a nonprofit organization that provides young adults with tools for personal leadership and faith. He is also an author.

• Be intentional: Don’t just go through the motions of life. Take some risk.
• Give yourself permission to be alone, with your thoughts, away from the electronic devices.
• Find your sacred space and enter your own desert. Don’t let all your time be consumed by what others are imposing on you.
• Don’t spend time worrying about things over which you have zero control. Remember, anxiety is largely a fear of the future. Live in the present.
• Do something that makes a difference even if you aren’t feeling like it, such as spending a morning texting gratitude to those you love.
• Understand time is not just your own. Listen for the bell.
• Find the rituals and rhythms that move you toward peace and purpose. Like our stone mason, carefully select the stones and apply them to our pillars of peace to customize our path and inculcate the lessons learned from our personal desert.
• Read good books often and broadly. Enlarge your space. These could be a part of the stones that make up our pillars.
• Create your own questions and record your insights.

Enjoy your desert as you enter this space of discovery which leads to empowerment, purpose and peace. The inspiration you find in your own desert will shape the foundation and beauty of the pillars of peace you are building. These pillars support your newfound peace and freedom and serve as a wall of sorts to keep that which is not sacred out of your personal desert; anything that would distract from the beauty of the space.