"How does one become a butterfly?" she asked pensively."You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar." ---Trina Paulus
What matters? Thinking about how women can change and how we must want to change for change to occur. When we started LiveSisterLive (living life like it matters), our first logo showed a woman with a butterfly, not chasing it or showing it getting away.
It showed her hand open and the butterfly upon her as if bringing her forward to her dreams. While it has transformed from logo to our LiveSisterLive symbol it serves as a reminder that a woman can transform her life if she is willing to take the time, give up something, grab something better, and change the way she is living.
I've always loved Trina Paulus' butterfly quotation and how women can apply it to our life matters. If we want to keep our financial life alive we must be willing to give up something to bring our financial matters in order. If we want to keep our relationship life alive, we too must be willing to give up anything that is in its way. This applies to our spiritual, personal, health, wellness, social, parenting, career and any other life matters that encompass a woman's life.
Sometimes what can elevate our situation and enable us to fly is our will and commitment to give up what can't transform our life in the same way a caterpillar does to become a butterfly.
So how Does a Woman Become A Butterfly?
We must first become like caterpillars. Eat to grow and not just food. Nourish your life matters with the abundance of resources that are available to us from here, to where we live, to who we know. Shed too, Sister, like the caterpillar. Let go of what's keeping down the areas of your life. Remove anything in your life's way.
Throughout the stages of life, the caterpillar takes time to live in a cocoon, a place to be still and undergo positive change in its process of transformation and becoming a butterfly. When its new wings and beautiful life first emerge, it's vulnerable and not yet ready to fly. Its wings must be strong and then take shape before flying.
Change can make us vulnerable but doesn't have to make us weak. Take time for you and transform your own life matters. You, too, my sister are like a butterfly. You are stronger than you think and can transform your life matters, fly high and live a great, big, beautiful life!
How do you begin your life matters journey? to be continued in LiveSisterLive! Living Life Like It Matters (2010 publishing year)
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