Inhabit your desires. Don’t wait.

Hello there,

I’ve began and restarted this text many occasions. Between getting on a flight, being in India with household, and getting the information of the sudden demise of an expensive pal Aysha Griffin.

Aysha was a author and entrepreneur who I met in Spain, again in 2007. We linked by means of the writing neighborhood, hit it off instantly, and have been in contact ever since.

She was a free spirit, all the time residing her life to the fullest, and connecting and guiding individuals on the way in which. She owns the google search time period “inhabit your desires” – in the event you Google it, her website is the primary consequence – and she or he embodied the time period.

Ayesha was discovered lifeless in her condominium in Sant Feliu de Guixois, Catalonia on February 6; my birthday. Not lengthy after her personal birthday on January 31. Reason for demise was a coronary heart assault. I’m guessing she was in her late 50’s.

A few 12 months in the past she interviewed me about my ebook which was all about having the braveness to observe your desires; she was an enormous proponent of it. We’ve been exchanging messages ever since. She was one in all my largest supporters of this text.

The explanation I’m sharing this with you in the present day is that it’s a harsh reminder that life is brief and we don’t know which day will probably be our final.

“Glad Birthday! You are one 12 months nearer to demise.”

That is the beginning of an e-mail I get on my birthday yearly from Ryan Vacation as I subscribe to his Daily Stoic. Not the nicest e-mail to get up to, however a determined reminder that all of us want.

The Stoics believed that the considered demise ought to all the time be in your thoughts. It ought to provide you with a way of urgency, and aid you remove the inessential out of your life. It ought to decide the way you deal with individuals, and count on to be handled. In his ebook, Meditations, Roman emperor and Stoic thinker Marcus Aurelius wrote that “You might go away life proper now. Let that decide what you do and say and suppose.”

As working mums, we’re recognized to pause our ambitions and prioritize all the pieces round us however ourselves. “I’ll do it tomorrow; I’ll do it when my son is 5; I’ll do it when I’m prepared.”

The reality is, tomorrow might not come and you’ll by no means be prepared.

“Most of us have two lives. The life we dwell, and the unlived life inside us,” writes Steven Pressfield in his ebook the War of Art, a line that hit me like a rock once I heard it (audible).

So my message for you in the present day is, if there may be something you’re placing on maintain, press the play button now or it’s possible you’ll by no means get the possibility to.

With all my love,

Abha x