My husband melted my heart the day he asked me, "Can I participate in your wonder?" In whose wonder do you get to participate today?
Your responsibility is to be an explorer, not a tourist in this adventure that is your life.
Remember that nurturing yourself is as important (if not more so) as nurturing others.
Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen Hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh.
The most important promises are the ones we make to ourselves. The promises we makes to ourselves are the things that assure us we have the capacity to keep our promises to others.
It is of the small joys and little pleasures that the greatest of our days are built.
At the end of a matter ask, "What will I learn from this to make me better?"
Recognize that on certain days the greatest grace is that the day is over and you get to close your eyes. Tomorrow comes more brightly.
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
Just stop it. Seriously. Whatever it is. Just stop it. If only for an hour, a day, a week. Stop doing it long enough to get a glimpse of what the change would actually look like.
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend. "
LOVE LETTERS TO YOURSELF This is taken from a love letter (a gentle reminder) I wrote to myself recently. Live in your joy today. Be authentic. Love yourself. First. Love others from your own abundance. Life Changes. Circumstances change. Sometimes you try to fit your old way of being into new circumstances rather than becoming new yourself. Embrace transformation as an opportunity. And keep on writing love letters to yourself.
Live boldly. Laugh Loudly. Love Truly. Play as often as you can Work as smart as you are able. Share your heart as deeply as you can reach.
Speak quietly to yourself and promise there will be better days. Whisper gently to yourself and provide assurance that you really are extending your best effort. Console your bruised and tender spirit with reminders of many other successes. Offer comfort in practical and tangible ways - as if you were encouraging your dearest friend. Recognize that on certain days the greatest grace is that the day is over and you get to close your eyes. Tomorrow comes more brightly.
I like to talk about a thing I call a "practiced pause. " Just a few moments of pausing allows me to consider a circumstance and take stock of what the best direction might be. Reactions tend to rise from habit and unconsidered action. A Response is considered and thoughtful. My actions are my own and I am, singularly, responsible for what I see, say, feel and exert.
When we have a circle of friends, we have more fun. We get more done, we feel and are stronger, and we really do celebrate the power of our 'us. '
Your informed, "no," to a particular service allows another to offer their gifted and unreserved, "yes. "
Have your new year's resolutions been a new beginning for you or have they just been different words on the same old beginning? Maybe now's the time to establish a new pattern of viewing your life fresh.
Begin as if you will finish. Let the story be told that you had the courage to begin.
Healthy choices thread through every aspect of life.