Be Your Own Leading Lady

be-your-own-leading-lady.jpgBecause, after all, you ARE the leading lady in your own life!

No one else can be you. You are an original and ONLY you can star in your own life. The role is yours and belongs to no one else. Don’t go through life as wallflower sitting on the sidelines. Be YOU! If you don’t know who that is, then find out and get on it! Times a wasting.  This is not the practice run for life.  This is the real thing!

  • There is only ONE you.
  • The role is already yours. It belongs to no one else.
  • If someone else has it, it is just because you never claimed it.
  • Find the voice that has been silenced by others.

This was said so well in a quote from the movie, The Holiday. This was a great movie, by the way.  If you have not seen it, I highly recommend it.

Arthur Abbott: Iris, in the movies we have leading ladies and we have the best friend. You, I can tell, are a leading lady, but for some reason you are behaving like the best friend.
Iris: You’re so right. You’re supposed to be the leading lady of your own life, for god’s sake! Arthur, I’ve been going to a therapist for three years, and she’s never explained things to me that well. That was brilliant. Brutal, but brilliant.

About Extraordinary in the Ordinary

I am a professional photographer who lives and works from her heart. My goal is always and in everything to be better today than I was yesterday. I’m an ordinary person dealing with what I like to believe are ordinary issues, but in all the ordinary days, I want to live an extraordinary life. I am the mom to two grown sons, and there has been nothing I have loved more than being their mom and being home with them. And while you are always a mom, there is a certain part of that time in my life that is over now that they are grown. I miss hearing them play and having them with me all the time and having all their friends over, but it is time to move to the next stage of life or at least trying to figure out what that is. I am making a list of personal goals, connecting with friends, and still nesting even though the children are grown. I think I will always be a "nester". Home is where the heart is. I love home and love making it a healing place of peace and comfort.