Elevate.

Searching for mantras, looking for meaning, peeling the skin back, having a looksie under the hood. Demanding more from ourselves in a time where everywhere you turn there is some kind of energy drain. Some noble, some obligatory and even some necessary, but many that leave you nowhere with 0% left in the tank, and Trenton is still twenty miles away.

So the need to elevate comes into focus. The morning rituals allow things to reveal themselves a lot easier than trying to summon the future over brunch at noon. I’ve been examining my life and looking for places to elevate. A cpl years ago i was all about '“leveling up”, and that helped me immensely at the time, where I was able to utilize morning pages from the Artists Way, and quite literally write myself out of the life I was leading, and into an entirely new life in the course of 2 years.

Having gone thru that, I am now a little more attuned to nuance when working on myself, and find the term that I was using too broad for what I am attempting today. So “elevate” is what I’m going with now. Mostly in the idea that I can take what I have and make it better, as opposed to ‘level up’ that I think supposes an entirely new outlook. Elevating my breakfast, creative work, cooking, exercise regime, to how I treat the people around me, all of those aspects need an additional helping of care and effort. I am so eager to see the results that I don’t mind the uncomfortable place I will inevitably find myself in while I adjust to that new space.