"Yoga is the perfect opportunity to be curious about who you are." ~Jason Crandell

Okay, just...stay with me on this one. Watch first and then read.



A friend posted this on his facebook wall the other day, and it's played back in my head like a loop. Being a product of the 90's and hailing from the Chicago area, I was front and center for the decade that belonged to one, Micahel Jordan. I can remember getting together with friends just to watch a Bulls games. And we were teenagers. And girls.
Watching the Bulls play in the 90's, you knew you weren't just watching a game, but something special. That it perhaps might be a long time before you were apart of something like this again.

I love the message of this commercial spot. I've been trying for two days to put my finger on why I love it. What I think it comes down to is that it doesn't matter if you followed Michael Jordan's career or Lebron's for that matter. (Be married to a sports fanatic and have 3 boys though, and you just might follow it against your will.)

In this day and age especially, there is this sense of entitlement. An ever constant message that the accumilation of things, praise, and circumstance will bring you to who you are meant to be in this life. You see someone like Michael Jordan play and one could easily get lost in the glamour of it all. It's humbling to be reminded of where he came from. The hours upon hours on the court and in the gym that were not seen by the fans. Day upon day of training where there were no flashbulbs from the cameras, high fives by teammates or praise by reporters.
It's interesting to be reminded that our true, authentic and incredible self is already here. But we must practice it, cultivate it. If we have this notion that we will just one day become who we were meant to me, we may find we let a lifetime pass us by, not living to our full potential. But imagine what would happen if we worked with what we have, consistantly, every day, even when the only person who knows we are working at it is us?
We need to be present and be available at every moment of our life, and that takes effort. Just like the sculptor at his block of marble, we will discover, once we chip away at what isn't needful, the greatness that was already there. We just have to be willing to do the work.