Girl On Fire
Doesn’t the words Girl On Fire take you back to a time when you danced around in your mother’s high heels, used a towel as your Superwoman cape and rubber bands as your wonder woman bracelets. Personally, I loved pretending I was the Bionic woman and would just do everything in slow motion.
And then life happens.
You lost your sizzle – your knowing – that you can do absolutely anything.
You forgot how to even want or desire something just for you. If I was to ask you right now to tell me what you want, I bet you could give me a whole list of what you don’t want – but it’s not the same thing.
Sometimes you are given the perfect hand in life. And sometimes you have to create the perfect hand.
Sometimes you just have to decide that no matter what comes your way, you will survive.
I know I fall in the second category.
How would you feel if I told you – you can have your heart’s desires right now?
Even when circumstances, the world, your best friends, your significant other tell you its impossible or your head is in the clouds?
I say keep your head in the clouds.
There have been many things in my life when people count me out, when they thought I couldn’t – I almost believed them.
Even recently when I was diagnosed with a blood clot that could kill me – even with a growth in my stomach thats growing more and more each day.
Several months ago, out of the blue and without any warning, I was diagnosed with a blood clot in my leg. It was out of the blue. I was immediately put in the hospital. Crazy thing was I felt fine. I was in the best physical shape I had been in for a long time. In fact, I had just come from hiking the week before this day that they are telling me I have a life threatening illness. Even after being admitted to the hospital, it didn’t sink in. I remember the nurse telling me when I had some of my clients come to the hospital to visit me and I was doing work, “Do you know how sick you are?” You should take this more seriously.
What I didn’t know at the time is when I got out of the hospital, I wouldn’t be able to get out of the bed before noon, that I would lose all of my energy, and I would begin to live a life of fear. I would let all of the stories from other people that had these health challenges keep me inactive.
But I made a decision.
A decision that I am the only one that can declare what I can do in my life.
A decision that I will not be defined by previous choices, mistakes or challenges.
A decision that I will choose happy, I will choose prosperity and I will choose a paint by numbers lifestyle.
Through it all, Im better. In every way, and now I am spreading it.
Funny how being faced with your own mortality will clearly define what it is you want in your life. And I am defining this girl is on fire.
Every person on this earth should have a theme song. Zooey Deschanel thinks so too.
I’ve had many throughout my life. And Now Girl on Fire is it.
Watch this video. Remember Your Sizzle. Remember Your Sass. I enjoyed making it. This video was shot at the Girls Can Do Anything! Conference in Wilmington, Delaware. This is my 2nd year participating in this event, speaking and mentoring young girls to achieve a healthy self image.
Leave me a comment and tell me how you are a girl on fire (and guys you can be on fire too :-)!
