This is a blog about self-discovery and learning. About a different way of being than what many of us were raised in. It is an outlet for me to express what I'm learning in life and to share with you as I go along. About learning to live with more ease, effectiveness and effortlessness. It actually is quite simple, it’s just a skill set that most of us are lacking. This is not about self-improvement, because you can’t ever be any better than you are as a person at any given moment. Why? Because that’s how you are in that moment. Sure, you can always increase your skill at anything like cooking, running, guitar playing, etc with more practice, but these fall in the category of “doing”. So this has no intrinsic value of you as a person, who you actually are, aka your “being”.
It is important to separate out “being” from “doing”, because generally we are brought up in a culture of doing more or becoming good at doing things, makes you better as a person aka you’re your “being”. From what I’ve learned, that’s just not so. As I learn to be where I’m at with more consistency, things that I’m doing in life become easy, feel effortless, regardless of what I’m distracted by in thought or what I'm feeling. Not only that, but it also is effective and gets results like I never would have believed. All of a sudden, I'm doing things I didn't think I could and it's easier than ever to do them. It sounds crazy to me as I write it, but it’s true. It makes me laugh. actually. It’s like magic. Thinking that one can “be better” than he is, isn’t possible because that’s the way he is, simple as that. If that’s hard to understand, don’t worry…I’ll talk more about this later. Lots more. ;)
So I’ll be posting about many different topics around self-discovery…from, intuition, social interaction, work, cultures, expression, energy, dating, friendship, intentionality…this list will go on as I learn. Whatever I’m seeing and experiencing. Life as it goes and as I follow it. As I learn, I hope you’ll learn too.
And lastly why the name "bright-eyed life"? Well it describes to me the visual aspect of when I'm truly present...the world has more color, depth, dimension. Things look sharper and are more vivid...its as if my eyes have become bright. Also when you see someone who really is seeing the world as it is with bright-eyes, being fully present and enjoying life, with wonder and awe. Dare I say enlightened, at the risk of being considered arrogant. But that's what it is, being enlightened, living a bright-eyed life. Enough said.
Thanks for reading, and best to you on your journey in life. Feel free to get in touch or post comments as you wish.
