Most of us have well established daily, weekly and even monthly routines which help smooth out our lives and make us more efficient. We get up at certain times, eat specific foods, follow well- traveled paths and think in predictable ways. Sometimes our routines are based on natural cycles and help to keep us in balance. Often they serve to make us feel comfortable, to keep our sphere of influence stable and secure in a world of change. Yet are any of us here to live ordinary lives? Do we aspire to ordinariness? We know that when we stay within the realm of the ordinary we leave no room for magic to enter. It is when we go beyond what we know, beyond what we can control and beyond what we can predict that we allow extraordinary things to happen.

We invite you to recall times in your life when you went far beyond your comfort zone. If you are dancing in that space as you read these words, we celebrate and empower you. Has love taken you to the place where the world is enchanted and you can taste new possibilities in the air you breathe? Has sickness or loss forced you to change what you take for granted? Has a move or a new job made you challenge what you do every day? Has a new friend shown you a new world? Has an opportunity arisen which you grabbed by the horns and rode into unknown territory? Have you had an idea which you decided to follow wherever it takes you? Has your whole life changed in a single moment?

Those times of change, whether we label them good or bad, are doorways to new possibilities. Often they bring intense and changing emotions, both uncomfortable and exhilarating. Sometimes it is as if the changes are forced upon us against our wills. Sometimes we feel we choose them, for better or for worse. And always we can embrace them fully, to allow ourselves to be in the crucible of our own willingness to evolve.

Fortunately, we don't have to step very far away from our routines to allow the to take place. Magic is less than a second away. We can pay attention to synchronicity and follow where it leads. We can listen to our inner knowing, and allow ourselves to risk implementing what we hear. We can pay attention to our own brilliant ideas, and nurture them into fruition instead of drowning them out with the noise of everyday concerns. We can say yes to opportunities that are presented to us, if we only let our spirits savor them and give us the nod. We can allow ourselves to play, to dance and sing and create and love with abandon. We can sit quietly and listen to the magic of our breath and the beat of our hearts. We can expand our senses and see a different reality. We can open ourselves so wide to someone we respect that we see the world anew. We can actively seek magic, growth and and make it so.

This is our world, this is our playground, this is the extraordinary moment that we have created for ourselves. We didn't do all of this just to sleep. We are here to seize the moment and make it dance. What is the most amazing thing that you have done today?