Who were you five minutes ago?

I love this quote 🙂

Particularly when five-mins-ago-me* wasn’t my loveliest self.

* Five-mins-ago-me might’ve been: snapping at a child, moaning like a martyr, rushing like a mad woman, eating another doughnut, wanting something to be different to what it is while feeling guilty about all the above.

But: “no obligation to be the person you were five minutes ago.”

Seriously Alan? I reeeaaally don’t have to be?

Aaaaah…

…and release.

I love the opportunity deep in these words.

Opportunity we can soak up at any moment.

Opportunity to reinvent ourselves.

Because, why not?

There’s no golden rulebook tying us to our identity, after all. Only we do that. In fact, we can just decide to drop it. Be a whole new person right this second. Re-hatch ourselves. We just have to choose to let go of our ego to transform.

It sounds a bit simples doesn’t it? I mean there’s baggage, right? Invested-in can’t-put-down baggage. But does it really have to be any harder? Do we have to hold onto our story? Our ego tells us we must cling onto it for dear life, but if the reason for clinging isn’t going to result in higher happiness then – what's the point?

If you’ve been feeling less than lovely, try dropping “five minutes ago you”. Release all of it.

The magic is, you don’t need to add anything extra (miserable-five-mins-ago-Jo doesn’t need to suddenly be shiny-supercalifragilistic-Jo), just drop the story of who you were.

How would it feel?

I think ‘five-mins-ago-you’, ‘now-you’ and ‘future-you’, all want that for you – don’t you?

Happy Monday 🙂

Love, Jo x