What is Good?

{ The Good Life } 3.7.21

Choosing Joy.

A new integration of an old idea is forming. In my process I have been struggling to acknowledge what in this world, in this life, in this moment is working. I don't know if this is a training that I have be repeating since a young age or if fear of my own success has shielded my eyes. What I do know is that I am here to combat it. I am here to integrate my success into my being. I am here to integrate what is good into my life. I do not mean what is morally good. I mean what is successful, what is working, what in life I am championing. I start now, for the next month I am committing to a blog a day about what is Good. What is Right. What is Successful. What is Working.

What is Good? 3.7.21

1. I have begun to chase Joy: What is radical to you? What possess the power to change your life completely? For me it is the pursuit of Joy. Two months ago I left my job at a coffee shop where I whittled away the day in the doldrums. I left this job to start chasing what lights me up. As I left I dove deeper into my music and my practices and rituals to help cultivate more of this feeling and relationship with my being. I realized in these months. I want more from life than I have been asking for the last twenty-six years. I want so much more. Yes, I want to continue to grow and expand in my career as an actor but I also want to support my partner and his dreams, I wanna support our dreams, I wanna support my dreams. I want to learn more, I want to create more, and I want to cook more. Chasing after one thing becomes strenuous if I don't let myself call out what I want from all facets of my life. I choose to do this with ease and to let the Source take me to where I have been headed all along. Now, I am taking all of me.

2. I had blue cheese that was almost orgasmic. Do you like blue cheese? I do. It is a flavor that really threw a wrench in my gears for the longest time. When I was in college I was reintroduced to the magic of this cheese and my mind began to expand. When I worked on ships often one of the daily cheeses that we always had was blue cheese. It's pale fleshy and putrid blue veins, they call to me. When I say that I have developed a love for this stinky ripe and revolting delicacy I mean it. The other night I picked up a chunk from the grocery store and served it with our dinner. It's ripeness overwhelmed me. It took me to another level.

3. I am now a Spa Director . I took on this position for the time being to grow as a person. I have been looking for a job that supports my expansion as well as fosters my skills. This position came up with in a few weeks of calling this out to the Universe. I was scared how could something so easily come to me. After taking time to discern all of the signs started showing up. One day walking to the gym the street was littered with feathers, almost as if a couple of pigeons had exploded down Chapman Street. Feathers are a sign that I get when my Inner Child is trying to communicate with me. A few days later I was meditating. A monarch butterfly kept showing up in my mind. I took it and let it be. A day later when I went into my new job to start learning about the business there was a jar of monarch butterflies. I turned the corner and there was a tapestry of butterflies. A couple chapters ago in my life butterflies used to come and land on me. They were always there when I needed guidance and reassurance. They have been a sign for me that I am at or are doing the right thing at the right time. Signs. Signs. Signs. The Source is yelling at me. YELLING. Here I sit now a new Spa Director ready to support my expansion and become the creator of my Now.

I am giving myself stillness so that I can cultivate more in my life. I am giving myself the support and reassurance that I need so that I can create this life. I support myself through my expansion and I am supported by the Source as I expand. I am taking up space on all levels.

Part of being expanded and expansive is taking up space. Don not let anyone or thing minimize you. Reclaim your space. You are worthy.

Ian Lah 3.5.21

Here is to the next month of all the things that are good.

keep living { The Good Life }

Ian