Once you carry your own water, you will learn the value of every drop.
When you have to 100% provide for yourself, you have a deeper understanding of everything that you have. What you may have taken for granted before increases in value. You have complete ownership of what you do with your time and how you spend your money. You understand the sacrifices that are needed and have a deeper sense of gratitude and appreciation for the little things. What I love about this quote is that there
Embrace uncertainty. Some of the most beautiful chapters in our lives won’t have a title until much later.
We are hardwired to crave certainty in our lives. In an article for Entrepreneur, Tony Robbins notes certainty as one of our basic human needs and defines this need as follows: “The first human need is the need for Certainty. It’s our need to feel in control and to know what’s coming next so we can feel secure. It’s the need for basic comfort, the need to avoid pain and stress, and also to create
The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
To really experience beauty, one needs to truly be alone and present with themselves and their surroundings. Distractions need to be silenced and you have to let yourself just be and soak in all that is around you. For me, being alone and taking time to experience the beauty in this world is critical to my overall mental health. As much as I love spending time with people and doing things with others, I find
Somebody, somewhere is depending on you to do what you have been called to do.
On Friday, I talked about how if we are going to fear anything, it should be the idea of being in the exact same place as you are today. In our busy world, with all of its constant distractions, it is easy to lose sight of what we have been called to do. It’s easy to stay stuck where we are as the years pass. Many of us settle into traditional jobs because that is
Fear being in the exact same place as you are today.
I often ask people who say that they are feeling stuck, when was the last time you did something for the first time? Most of the time, they really have to stop and think about it. After a pause, they will tell me that it was quite some time ago. They are creatures of habit and stay in their own patterns and routines. They never stray too far from their lanes. We were created to
You feel unsettled because you know you are meant to do more.
I often feel unsettled in my same old patterns and routines. It’s because I know deep in my gut that I am meant to be doing so much more than I am. This deep knowing I feel is greater than anything I have ever felt. Yet I am in a paralyzed state, unable to trust my own madness of creativity. Yet I know for all of us, our time here is limited and we cannot
It is not your responsibility to heal, save, punish or control other people.
There are times in our lives where we tend to take on responsibility for things that we aren’t responsible for. And for some of us, myself included, we find ourselves in this place more often than not. It’s like we have this automatic response to jump in and start ‘managing’ a situation or trying to control things that we have absolutely no control over. It’s ineffective, yet so instinctual. It’s a maladaptive pattern. Many of
A million likes will never be enough if you don’t like yourself.
Studies are coming out now that tell us that social media can negatively impact our self-esteem and overall mental health. More people are lonely and depressed than ever before. We are all connected, yet so apart. Most people online are posting what I call their “highlight” reel. It’s an incomplete picture of how things really are, yet we take what we are seeing to the bank as truth. How many of us post things online