Take the Scenic Route

If you have the choice to walk around the Eiffel Tower on foot and take it all in or just only drive by it and hopefully get a picture out the window - which would you choose?

The answer is walk, of course, who wouldn’t? But how often do we choose to drive by something beautiful or an experience that can be magical just because we are in a hurry?

MY goal for 2019:

‘take the scenic route’

Just so you know what angle I am coming from: I am a 1 and an 8 Enneagram, an INTJ on the Meyer’s Briggs, and a D / C on the DISC Test. SOOOO let’s just say I am the biggest planner and executer ever. When I have a goal, I attack and conquer. Needless to say, I have trouble slowing down and actually enjoying the process.

This year I am getting married (to the MAN OF MY DREAMS) and I should not be so focused and hurried in the planning that I do not enjoy the process of it with him and my family.

Let me be real honest here - I kicked in to “get it done” in about two days. On top of getting married I have a big move to another state and all de decisions that have to be made with that, so of course I started making lists in my head of everything I needed to do and by when. UGH! I was feeling so anxious, so overwhelmed, and yet have the absolute best support system of friends and family in my life telling me:

Let it go.

it will all get done.

things will fall into place.

beauty is in the journey of it.

Trust the process.

i am with you.

Each day I have stopped myself, taken more deep breaths, written what I am grateful for, and consciously chosen to take the scenic route. A wedding is almost like a giant gift from my parents to me, and if you know me, I have trouble accepting gifts. I feel as though some gifts are just too big or too amazing and that I don’t deserve them. I get awkward and really have no idea how to accept it. In reality, taking the scenic route mean I have to believe something about myself…

This is a lesson of believing: I am worth it.

Not only am I worth a beautiful celebration of my fiancé and I’s love, but I am worth the scenic route. My health, heart, soul, and mind are worth slowing down and taking the time to make sure I am my best self enjoying every second of this incredible life given to me. I am worth not settling for the busyness of the world that calls me to hurry hurry hurry. I am worth the time it takes to make dreams happen and get puzzles pieces into place.

We have to find the worth in ourselves before we can really enjoy the scenic route. Reason being that if we don’t think we have worth in our ideas, in our hopes, in our dreams, in our aspirations - then why would we take the scenic route? It would be unimportant and not pertinent to the plan; it would feel as a waste of time to chase seeing a sunset down in Newport Beach, California or chase seeing the sunrise from a field in Oxford, England. How crazy is it though that those moments are the ones that make impacts on our identity? They shape us.

I hope you can look ahead over 2019 and see a way in which you can enjoy the scenic route…because you and your brilliant life are worth it.

xx Liv