Alexandra Johnson reflects on choosing happiness moment to moment and embracing your true self. She shares her experiences as a new mother and how maintaining positivity despite challenges shapes personal growth and authenticity.
Hi, everyone. It's Alexandra. Hope you're having a wonderful day. So today is the last day of 2012, stepping into 2013. And what is your 2013 about? That's what I'm wondering. That's what I was thinking about this morning. Like, what is my 2013 about? And as I was laying in bed, I was thinking, you know, my 2013 is about being happy. I want to be the happiest I have ever, ever been. I want to be happy regardless of the search situations, the circumstances, what I have in my life, what I don't have in my life. I want to be happy. I want to be happy. And I want my authentic self, my true self, to be revealed, like who I am at my core, to be revealed moment to moment, to moment, each moment. Can I show up authentic? Can I show up and let my true self flow through and be expressed? And that's what my 2013 is about. Can I do that? And it's less about this big transformational process. It's more in this moment, in this moment, in this interaction, Can I choose to be happy in this? Can I choose to let my authentic self be expressed? Can I just let God flow through me and live my life and surrender to my life and just let it moment to moment, to moment? And I know we hear this often, you know, be in the present moment, but it really is in the present moment. Like, I can choose to be happy right now, or I could choose to be not happy. And there's plenty of things in our life that we can look at and focus our attention on and say, this sucks. I'm not happy about it. But then we forget about all the magic over here that we can choose to look at and say, this is amazing. I am happy about this, and I just choose to be happy. And I'm not saying to ignore. Ignore the negative things that are happening in the life, in the world. You're not ignoring that, but you also aren't getting into that. There's like a negative vibration when you're in there. You need to stand in your power and say, okay, this is happening in the world. This is happening in my life. I can still be happy and hopeful and have faith and be empowered and step into my authentic self and make a difference in the world. Because when we go into the drama and the negativity, we're not making a difference in the world. When we stay happy and positive and hold true to our commitments and live the life that we know we want to live, we make a difference in the World. We make a difference in our world. We make a difference in our family's world, the community, everything. We make a difference by us choosing happiness. We raise the vibration, and it feels really good when we raise the vibration. So that is really an important thing for us goddesses is to be willing to have the courage to reveal your true self. Do you have the courage to actually let it shine, let your true self rock? And it does take courage, and it takes something. And it takes some major mojo when you're stuck in something in a neg belief, a negative story to say, you know, this is not working right now, this story that I have about this situation, about myself. It doesn't feel good. I don't feel happy about this. And then you can choose a different story, you can choose a different response. And that. That moment that you make the choice is where the magic happens. That's when you actually start to transform. And I guarantee you, in 2013, every day, if you wake up and say, you know what? I choose to be happy. I'm choosing to be happy. I want my true, authentic self to be revealed today. And you, moment to moment, each interaction that you have throughout the day, you choose happiness, you choose your authentic self, your authentic expression, you'll be a different person by the end of the year, I guarantee it. So that's what I'm focusing on. That's my game for this year. Moment to moment, when I'm feeling, you know, I'm feeling because I'm a new mom. So if I'm feeling tired and just like, oh, my gosh, I'm getting up again tonight to feed, and, you know, I can go into all the negativity around that and just like, oh, poor me, and da, da, da. But for me, my practice has been I wake up and I look at my baby and I feel gratitude for him. I feel grateful for all of the mothers the world. And I send love to all the mothers. Sometimes when I'm up in the middle of the night of like, wow, mothers. Mothers are amazing. So sending prayers to mothers and just feeling the gratitude, and it's not always easy. Sometimes I wake up and I'm like, oh, gosh. But I have the choice. I always, always, always have the choice. And it's whether I'm gonna. Whether I'm gonna make it, whether I'm actually gonna make that switch and choose happiness and choose to live my life how I desire to live my life. Because what are we waiting for? We're waiting for next year. Next year we're gonna actually let our true self shine. We're gonna really do it next year. No, it needs to happen today. It needs to happen tomorrow. It needs to happen in every interaction that you have. And it's not about going for perfection, but it's about showing up. Show up for your life. Show up for who you want to be. Show up for who you are at your core. You're awesome. You're amazing. Every human being is awesome and amazing. And when we can just let that shine, let it flow, life is good. So hubby's back with the little man. So that's a wrap for today. So I hope you have a wonderful day.
