Up and Down and All Around

After a month like September, October allowed me to get back to myself by creating beautiful sceneries around me.  Since I was a kid, I have always enjoyed looking up, down and all around to find things that no one might be noticing.  As I grew up, this childish game became my outlet of clearing my mind and entertaining other’s minds.  Back in 2000, I even decided to start a Blog called “What’s Up” so that I would share all those that are unnoticed, with the world. Even though my blog idea never came to life, I never stopped to pause and look.

Lately, (for the last decade), my life has been all about “go/go/go” with pure focus on a direction.  That being said, I hardly ever forgotten to take the time to pause to look up, down and all around.  What made September so hard was the fact that I couldn’t pause but also I couldn’t “Go” because I couldn’t pause.  Therefore, the fact that October let me enjoyed the little nuances around us, I was able to see the light even in the dark.

What do you think I saw in October?  I wonder if you have noticed them too… I saw a beautiful moon set at 7am in the morning.  I saw a sunset that resembled a fire.  I saw a comet at 8pm on a Sunday as we were driving back from Tahoe.  I saw a sparkle in my daughter’s eyes in the morning of Halloween, from excitement.  I also noticed a dead mouse under the leaves, in the middle of the side walk.  It was beauty, it was excitement, it was disgust… regardless, it was not right in front of me, it was all around me.  I truly liked being able to notice them all.

Of course we should be looking at where we are headed to, both literally and figuratively.  However, there needs to be moments to pause so that the direction that we are traveling to takes a whole new meaning.

Even during your workouts, I would highly recommend to take that pause.  There are multiple ways of doing it.  For me, the main two ways are: 1. Taking an appropriate rest in between my strength training sets while focusing on something that is totally different than my workout, 2. Finding items around me that can become my workout.

This month, one of the items that we used was a hand mirror.  It allowed us to focus on ourself while creating a very different tool as our workout equipment.  Let me know what you think about the below exercise:

Big high-five to all of you who can notice the unnoticed…

buried behind all those wires is an amazing Moon trying to set!

Behind us and gorgeous…

look what’s up! a smiling rainbow…. :) LIFE is good!