What is it to love life? It seems like it would play out physically with a smile and a pep in your step as you spritely go about the day. A smile is a good thing, it takes effort and it is contagious. Though it is not always easy to greet the day that way. … Continue reading Love Life
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Baby Steps Are Still Steps
Positive change can start right now Photo by Tegan Mierle on Unsplash Doing something is better than doing nothing when it comes to battling feelings of doubt, sadness, and fear. These feelings will take a devastating toll on our life if they go unchecked or unchallenged because they are joy stealers, ambition stealers, and motivation stealers. Our very self, … Continue reading Baby Steps Are Still Steps
If You are Hurting You are Not Alone
Find hope in our human connection Photo by Marc-Olivier Jodoin on Unsplash If you are hurting, you are not alone. If you are hurting, then I am there with you. We may not know each other, but we can look up at the same sky carrying the same pain, and maybe somehow we can carry each other. I … Continue reading If You are Hurting You are Not Alone
Finding Flow in Life
Intentional effort makes for instinctual living How is the flow of your life right now? Do you feel balanced between work and play, introspection and speaking out, or somber reflection and laughter? These are just a few examples of the balance that I hope for in my life. Currently, the balance between engaging the issues … Continue reading Finding Flow in Life
The Choice is Yours
As he stares into his reflection in the water, he asks, "Who am I?" and with that, Derek Zoolander starts his journey to rediscover his identity. Though we may not be really ridiculously good looking like Derek, we all are asking this question and defining the answer every day. To navigate decision making in our … Continue reading The Choice is Yours
The Ever-Changing Normality of Life
Photo by Evie S. on Unsplash Raise your hand if you enjoy stretching. My hand would’ve stayed steady at my side when I was younger, but now my hand would shoot up in the air. What used to seem like a waste of time now feels like a drug that I can’t live without. We are … Continue reading The Ever-Changing Normality of Life
Commitment is the Key
Steady work makes for solid achievement Though we know that good things take time, managing the expectation for quick returns on minimal investment is still a struggle. We reap what we sow, and oftentimes, we do not see the hours, days, or years of intentional groundwork that laid the foundation for that harvest. What we … Continue reading Commitment is the Key
Ease into the New World
Identify and remember what has been learned during this pandemic. Tonight the moon is full and bright and combined with the warm nights, it feels as if one could forgo sleep and ride the energy of the light. That happened to me the other night as the moon was almost full. Though I wanted to … Continue reading Ease into the New World
The Story of Today
Gratefulness and hope Photo by Dan Grayum Where are you in your life at this moment? Are you at a place of hope, where you see brightness ahead, regardless of the darkness that may be around you? Do you feel lost, as if you have no idea how you got to be in the place … Continue reading The Story of Today
Thoughts for a Friday: The Present
Photo by Tinjoe Mbugus I wanted to share some ideas and resources with you from this past week, specifically, how to embrace the present. Breathing Important stuff right? Seriously though, there is a lot of benefits to breathing, besides staying alive. I was talking with a friend the other day about the impact of intentional deep … Continue reading Thoughts for a Friday: The Present
The Story We Write 