Self-acceptance

If we don’t accept who we are, we walk around petrified that someone else will notice or even point out what we don’t like about ourselves.

“Nothing I accept about myself can be used to diminish me.” – Audre Lorde

Take away fear, and the power you are giving others over you.

Courageous Convictions

“Courageous convictions will drag these dreams into existence.” – Rush, Vital Signs/Moving Pictures, 1981 

I’ve had more than a few dreams come true, and I can tell you it always involves towering courage and unwavering belief.

What is inside you?

Pain

It’s telling us something.  Pain is important.

How we avoid it.

How we accept it and deal with it when it comes.

How we get better and transcend it.

Have you allowed it to teach you?

Touch someone

Whether you call it teaching, helping, caring, loving, therapy, laughing with, smiling at, we all love positive connection.  We don’t have control of when someone gives it to us, but by proactively giving it to others we will get it back – most often immediately.

Genuinely put yourself out there for others.

Celebrate your progress

Celebrate your progress, but not based on the ideal perfect life; everything accomplished.

Celebrate it based on where you came from.

You can never get to the horizon.

Opportunity Knocks…

If you answer the door, work will be standing there.

We all get opportunities.  Small ones at first.  

To take advantage of them and get bigger opportunities, you have to do the work.

Had to be there to be here…

You had to be there to be here – right?

And your being here is a stepping stone to be somewhere else – right?

Your current situation – quicksand or springboard. A choice.

It’s up to you…

Don't make decisions when you're on drugs.

When you’re emotional, you’re on drugs.  It happens to all of us.  We’re human.

Don’t make decisions when you’re on drugs.

Wait.  Go to bed.

Ripples across humanity

The other day I was going into a diner and a woman was coming out and said “Hey I know you!  I get your messages every morning and I really love them.  I have a business and I have used all your ideas.”  

I didn’t know her, and maybe I’ll never see her again.  But it reminded me that it’s a small world, and what we put out there is floating around us, orbiting our lives.  Each day, sometimes directly and most times indirectly, it comes back to affect our lives with the same polarity as the intention we put it out with.

If it’s what you want, then be nice and help others be successful.

Pain can be a gift

Pain can be a gift.  

“Damn it!  I’m pissed off enough to make the change in myself I need to but haven’t!”

Hurt enough yet?