“I Will Commit To A Life Where I Get To Sing My Song”

“I will commit to a life where I get to sing my song”. I first came across those words from Lynette Chartier, our Ritual Divas community leader. Powerful words I thought.

I said them again to myself: “I will commit to a life where I get to sing my song”. Yes, great words I thought.

I repeated the sentence over and over again to myself. They became “I will commit to a life where I get to sing my song”. Okay. I made that commitment the other day.

As I continued to consciously move forward determined to honor that commitment to myself, I noticed that the words changed from “I will commit to a life where I get to sing my song” to “I have committed myself to a life where I get to sing my song”. That, of course, was because I had after all made a commitment to do exactly that and had only made that promise to myself the other day! I thought I was simply telling myself my truth and in an effort to honor it (inspired by Debra of Honor Your Truth BraveHeart community).

I said those words again to myself: “I have committed to a life where I get to sing my song”. (That was just so that I would 'get it')!

I repeated the words several times: “I have committed to a life where I get to sing my song”. “I have committed to a life where I get to sing my song”. “I have committed to a life where I get to sing my song”. (I couldn’t help but wonder if I was trying to convince myself or whether I was telling myself that I had to decide when and how to take action on that commitment which meant that I’d be looking for a starting point and how to get to the finish line. Inotherwords, I was going to have to come up with an action plan, essentially fine tuning and acting upon that which was already sketched in my mind). As I said, I only made that conscious choice the other day. I was only reinforcing to myself the commitment I had made to myself—or so I thought.

The words changed to “I have committed to a life where I get to sing my song”.

Then I started feeling scared. ‘What if I fail’ I started asking myself, second-guessing myself, undermining my own commitment to myself, chattering away to myself about nothing really considering that the commitment HAD been made and I WAS committed to a life where I get to sing my song and I realized that in many ways I have actually been given the opportunity to live a life where I get to sing my song! What a delightful opportunity! I have the words. I’m working on putting them to music, so to speak, and as such it seemed logical to me that I could look forward to when I would absolutely know that the time was right when I could open my mouth and sing that song. (I can’t sing very well but that wasn’t going to stop me, at least not in my mind, and if no one else liked the song, that was okay, so long as they didn’t encroach on my right to sing it and live my life as I choose).

With one sentence, I had reflected upon the past—the recent past—and a time of long ago. For a moment, I felt sad. Hindsight showed me that I had sung my song in various aspects of my life. I am grateful for that. The commitment made by the words recently repeatedly spoken was in the present. The commitment was for the future. It struck me that that would prove to be in a different way than I’d known before. “I have committed to a life where I get to sing my song”. Oh, of course! The whole ball of wax! A life with purpose, one that has meaning, feeling empowered, joyous, and deriving personal fulfillment, a sense that what you’re doing DOES make a difference, however small (even a little canary sings her song and she does that throughout her life), in my own life and perhaps in someone else’s—the goal being for the betterment of all. In this case, it’s YOU—and from that everything else flows. ‘What a WONDERFUL feeling’ I said to myself. Then it hit me…!

‘Way to Go Lynette’, I said to myself, -- considering that the Ritual Divas community promotes self-awareness, with the goal of producing joy, success, and abundance overall!

One sentence – carries with it a very powerful message—a time for opportunity—a time for healing, learning, and growing—a time to be thankful for lessons learned--and I believe that one sentence gives a lot of food for thought. From a global perspective, it meant A LOT to me.

Of course, all this that I’ve written probably does too, at least it does to me, and I sincerely hope that it has meaning for you, too, because the jist of it is that the BraveHeart women global community, upon the vision being realized by its creators and founders, has extended to all of us here on BraveHeart the opportunity to share, learn, grow, and prosper in our respective and collective journey. But you guys probably already knew that. Me, well, sometimes it takes a little longer for something to sink in! Bop!

What do the words mean to you “I will commit to a life where I get to sing my song”? What are you doing about it? If not, why not? If not now, then, when?

Many thanks, Lynette, for your words of wisdom which I took a step further, expanded upon, and realized that the words build a strong foundation for self-assessment, introspection, reflection, change, inspiration, and action.

“I raise my glass” to you, Lynette, and extend my warmest and most heartfelt gratitude.

All the Best,
Laura