🔥 Ep. 47: Be Here Now — Spring Into Presence, the Key to Unlocking Life’s Doors

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Are you feeling distracted, stuck, or like life is passing you by? In this episode, we dive into the power of presence and why being fully in the moment is the key to unlocking opportunities, joy, and growth.

Spring is here—a season of new beginnings, sprouting seeds, and fresh possibilities. Just like flowers pushing up through the dirt, your life can shift and bloom once you get clear, focus on what matters, and take aligned action.

Join me as I share:

•  Why the present moment is all we truly have and how to hold on to it 
•  How putting down your phone can open up real connections with loved ones 
•  The science and spirituality behind manifestation and doors opening when you’re ready 
•  Personal stories of unexpected opportunities showing up when I got clear on my goals 
•  Simple ways to spring into creativity, action, and presence in your everyday life 

This episode is for anyone ready to stop scrolling, start noticing, and step into a life full of intention, connection, and magic.

Takeaway: Be here. Be present. Spring into action. Watch the doors in your life start opening.

Transcript

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Welcome back to Organized Chaos Stories with Shabana. This is the place where life's beautiful messes transform into wisdom, laughter, and inspiration. In each episode, I'll be sharing real stories, mine and others, about the twists, turns, and unexpected lessons that life brings together. Let's learn to turn life's messes into messages, struggles into stories, and chaos, into clarity. So come join me. Friends, while I remind you, the true magic is within us all. We hold the power to create a life. We not only like, but love. Let's do this.

Speaker 0:33

Hello. Welcome back to another episode of Organized Chaos Stories with Shabana. I'm your hot host, Shabana Knight coming live from the rainy, yet sometimes beautiful Pacific Northwest. Let me tell you about last week. I know sometimes here and on social media, I for sure, like many others, paint. This beautiful, perfect, seemingly flawless life for you all to observe. The truth is it's easier to share the good, positive, happy stuff because where attention goes, more of that will follow. For me, yes, 100%, I want more of the good stuff, and I do focus on the good then the negative that happens in my life because I don't really want to deal with all the bumps in the road that leads to spilled hot coffee that burns at times, if you're catching my drift. Anyways, last week was challenging and it ended on a really good note, and that's what I want to share about. It's not how you start the week, it's how you finish. This week started with a heated discussion with a family member that chose once again to cross a boundary and again forgot that there was a boundary and that it was crossed. If you've been in those shoes, you know what I mean, and I do not need to explain anymore. With that being said, that always leads to a rough 24 hours or so of processing emotions, reflecting, regulating my nervous system, deciding was I happy with my own choices or should I have said more, et cetera. Then realizing again, how proud I am for the boundaries I have made and who I am and who I am becoming, because being a woman who knows what she wants for herself, for her family, for her children, irritates other people, but the truth is. It is not about them. It is about your motherhood journey and you showing up in a regulated state of alignment, peace, and joy. You get to call the shots and make the rules and be in charge. And I know people don't like how I parent and I don't care because I like how I parent and I love my children so much and I am doing one hell of a job. Love me or hate me, but I'm going to be me all along the way. So then what else happened this week? Two of the online courses I am in, ended this week and that is always bittersweet. So much personal and professional growth. Again, so proud of myself and. I have made really good friends in all the things, so more emotions there. Then Friday night I went to. Son's baseball games and that went really well. And he did amazing. Again, the team won 10 to four and then that also opened up a discussion that I had with one of the other moms, and we just connected on, oh, just talking about in-laws and boundaries and we were on the same page and it was just such a great conversation. And I just, I love that wherever I go, I always make friends and. It's just, it's wonderful just being present and making new friendships all along the way of life. And then yesterday I went on another field trip with the oldest, he's finishing up his junior year. I can't believe he's graduating next year. But, um, on this field trip, it was a two hour bus ride to a band music festival. I was tired and I was gonna take a nap on the bus, but then I decided that I would sit in the front seat, uh, behind the bus driver and then across from the band teacher. And then the three of us ended up talking for the. Two hours straight. It was like three practically strangers. And then at the end of the day, I feel like we all connected so deeply on a soul level. It was just a really special time, at least for me, I felt like. And then during one of the performance, the bus driver ended up sitting next to me and that was like really good. And we got to connect also. And then, um, one of the performance, I pulled my phone out and I got this download. So that's what I wanted. That was a very long intro, but this is what I got for that download. So here we go. I'm just gonna read it off my phone. It said. That's it. Don't you get it? You're not missing anything. The key right now for you, for everyone listening, is to be present. Today is a gift. That's why it's called the present. And I don't just mean that in some cliche way. I really, really mean it right now. We don't know what tomorrow will hold. None of us do. So right here, right now, hold your phone less, hold your child's hand more. Hold your partner's hand more. Hold on to the moments, the memories before they slip through your fingers. Look around you. Lock in with the eyes of the people at the dinner table. Really see them. Put the phones down off to the side. Notice the laughter, the small gestures. The way the light hits their hair. These moments are fleeing, and they're everything. Yes, technology is amazing. I wouldn't be here sharing these stories with you week after week without it, but when we're glued to it, scrolling mindlessly, comparing, it's like we're handing our lives over to something that can never give back What we're missing, and I don't have this perfect either. I've caught myself lost in my screen, distracted from what truly matters, and that's exactly why I needed to write and share this message for myself. And for anyone listening this week who's ready to feel a little more alive, it's springtime. Seeds are sprouting, flowers are bursting up through the ground. Life is waking up all around us. And it makes me wonder what's popping up in your life? Same old, same old, or are you ready for something new? Because if you want new things, you have to plant new seeds, new mindsets, new behaviors, new actions. You can't keep expecting change if you keep doing the same thing.

Speaker 3 6:58

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Speaker 7:22

And yes, things can take time to grow. Growth is a process, but here's the magical part. In quantum physics, in the spiritual world, in the universe's secret timing, things can happen in the snap of a finger. Once we shift our mindset and truly go after what we want, the world starts rearranging itself in our favor. Just like flowers pushing up through the dirt, we begin to notice how everything around us starts working with us instead of against us. Let me give you an example from my week. Thursday night, I got crystal clear on what I wanted for April. I visualized it. I felt it. I claimed it. And Friday out of nowhere, doors started opening. People I hadn't spoke to in months popped into my life. Conversations started happening that I didn't even plan. Job opportunities, ideas, all aligning perfectly. One for cleaning, one for decluttering, one for training, one for babysitting. Hot leads, doors opening that I didn't even knock on yet, and it felt like heaven was watching. Angels on roller blades. Just waiting for me to say, I'm ready. Go open that door. Move, move, move, and suddenly reminders and messages started showing up at just the right time. The universe whispers, Shabana, you're ready. Go get it. Doors open when we get clear on our goals. They cannot open if we are unclear, distracted, and scattered. And one of the biggest distractions in our lives right now, you guessed it, are cell phones, screens, notifications, pulling our attentions away from what matters most. So here's my challenge for you. And me, put the phone down. Pick up your child, your partner's hands, a book you've been meaning to read, a paintbrush. Cook something with love. Do something. Spring into creativity. Spring into life. Spring into connection. Because these are the moments that matter. These are the seeds that grow into joy, into love, into fulfillment. These are the moments that become the memories we carry forward. Be here, be present. Be alive. Don't miss the magic happening right now, right in front of you. That bus ride to the music festival was so good for all of our heart. It was like we all had been friends before, but really was the first time I had met the bus driver and the first time me and the band teacher were on the same bus, I believe. Usually there are a few buses, and this time there was only one bus. Then during the performance, the bus driver sat with me. Turns out she was adopted also, and her story was fascinating and something. We connected on people who are adopted are truly a different type of blood, one of such beauty, strength, and resilience. A lot of questions, heartache, pain, but a lot of power, strength, and overcoming with joy. Some other moments in the day I did. Put my phone down and joined another family at a table and talked with them for a while and it felt good to connect with that family from the school and not be glued to my phone. Our boys have been in school together since elementary school, and while they will be graduating next year together, this is the first time I would say we have sat down and talked for a while. It was refreshing. In some ways it was easy for me to sit at the table and talk to them because we are friends on social media and we have seen each other volunteering and said hi here to there at different social events. So being friends on social media definitely helped it make things less awkward. And then another highlight is one of the junior girls, um. She used to live in our neighborhood like forever ago, and then they had moved and then when my son started high school in ninth grade, somehow I ran into her and I was like, oh my gosh, didn't you used to be our old neighbor? And she was like, yes. And then when I had seen her yesterday on Saturday, she was like, hi queen. I was like, that is like the best way to greet someone. And it just made me so happy. And then when they were getting off the bus last night,'cause yesterday, I mean, we were together like all day long. It was. Like a 12 to maybe 13 hour day yesterday for the field trip. Um, but when she got off the bus, she gave me a hug and she said like, thank you for coming with them for the day. And then more of the students said, thank you. And like, thank me for being there for the day. And like, honestly, I felt like they didn't even like see me all day, so it meant. So much to me that they saw me and acknowledged that I was there because I feel like at this age they don't really need us. Um, and I was the only like parent volunteer, um, that was there. Um, I am like, lost my notes. Let's see. Okay, then more of the students said, bye, and thank you for coming for the day. I was the only parent volunteer, and let's be honest, at this age, they are all graduating next year. They don't need parent volunteers. But you know what? These kids are so freaking amazing, and I'm so incredibly proud of them, and honestly felt like they didn't see me all day long. And at the end of the day, at 9:30 PM at night. When a handful of them did say bye, and thank you for coming and just acknowledge I was there, made me feel so good to be seen. The truth is your silent presence is enough and you are making a difference. If you were to leave early from this world, I guarantee you would be missed. You are valuable. Your presence matter. So put your darn phone down, be present, and give your neighbor a hug or a fist bump and tell them you love them because you care, because you never know the battle someone is facing. So just be there and listen and encourage them. That's the other thing. Music at the festival was so good. It was the kind of music that made your soul come alive and dance that made life worth living, that reminds you. Life is worth living. So get off the screens, go be a part of something bigger, be a friend, and go have fun. I love you and know that I'm incredibly proud of you. You have the power to change your life and the life of others. Go live from that power. You got this. Love you. Bye.

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Hey, you. Yes, you. Thank you so much for listening to Organized Chaos Stories with Shabana. If you love this episode as much as I did, hit that subscribe button. Leave an outstanding review and share it with a friend who needs some inspiration. Thank you for being part of this community. Remember, in every bit of chaos, there is always a story waiting to emerge. Who knows? Maybe sharing your story might inspire others to share theirs. The possibilities are endless. Let's live in the possibilities.