Find Your Fuel for 2020
I hope the new year—and new decade—is off to a great start! As I recently shared in an Instagram post, I’m grateful this new decade already feels much more expansive than the last. One reason for the expansiveness? A renewed sense of energy and inspiration for this adventure called life—and the daily opportunity to nourish my mind, body, and soul.
One of the ways I’ve recently been nourishing my body is with double-floor workouts at Barry’s Bootcamp. Late last year Georgia, the Barry’s instructor who I consider my music soulmate, played one of my favorite songs, “I Lived” by One Republic. The song opens with this line:
“I hope when you take the jump, you don’t fear the fall.”
I love that line because every day we have the opportunity to take jumps big and small. For me, fear is often the single biggest inhibitor in taking the jump. That’s when the universe sends me exactly the right quote for a burst of energy to help me #JustGSD.
Here are twelve of my favorite energy-filled quotes from the last year. My wish is that you take many jumps this year. And, if you need a boost, I hope one of these provides that for you, too.
“Boss up and change your life.”
Lizzo
“If there’s a decision to be made by you then make it. Otherwise the world will make it for you, and that’s not good.”
Bob Iger
“Ultimately, our vocation is to become ourselves, in the thousand, thousand variants we are.”
James Hollis
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
Howard Thurman
“What will it take for us to realize that we are unfinished creatures who are in the process of being created? We must reinvent ourselves in love.”
Ilia Delio
“Once we let go of scarcity, we discover the surprising truth of sufficiency. By sufficiency, I don’t mean a quantity of anything. Sufficiency isn’t an amount at all. It is an experience, a context we generate, a declaration, a knowing that there is enough and that we are enough.”
Lynne Twist
“You either walk inside your story and own it—or you stand outside your story and hustle for your worthiness.”
Brene’ Brown
“If you’re crazy enough to do what you love for a living, then you’re bound to create a life that matters.”
Herb Kelleher
“Prepare yourself to be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud. Be a blessing to somebody.”
Maya Angelou
“We have this amazing capacity to be reborn at breakfast every day and say, “This is a new day, who will I be?”
Jack Kornfield
“God is for you. God is leaping toward you! God is on your side, honestly more than you are on your own.”
Richard Rohr
“We are all just walking each other home.”
Ram Dass
I’ll close with another line from “I Lived”: “I owned every second that this world could give.” My intention for the year ahead is to own every second by giving more, laughing more, and loving more.
All the best for a kick-ass 2020—and a year full of owning every second!
As always, thanks for checking out my blog. I hope you found this helpful, and I’d love to hear from you! You can email me at ben@thebenkikergroup.com, or connect with me via Twitter or LinkedIn.
Thanks to Gabriel Izgi on Unsplash for the photo used in this blog!