3 great observations to help us get present and powerful. The more positive choices we actively make about our lives, the more we are designing the lives we want.
Remember lovely, comparison steals what you already have, by wishing it was something else. Then you feel like you’ve got nothing - you don’t have what you’re wishing for and what you do have feels less then.
I know I have! Constantly criticizing, judging harshly, punishing, tearing down. How could we feel confident, when we keep beating ourselves up for being human. What if we were our greatest cheerleader - how different would we feel about ourselves??
“I want to be in the arena. I want to be BRAVE with my life. And when we make the choice to dare greatly, we sign up to get our butts kicked. We can choose courage or we can choose comfort, but we can’t have both. Not at the same time.” —Brené Brown
Oh lovely one, I've been there. I used to measure myself against how others treated me or what they said. Giving everyone the power to dictate how I felt about myself.
We believe in YOU! But do you? Oh girl, I've been there. Thinking I didn't have what it takes, I wasn't enough, I've stuffed up too many times, I don't have what she has, I don't look like her, I've never done that before, I'm not worth it, no one sees me, what have I got to offer.
"So what if, instead of thinking about solving your *whole* life, you just think about adding additional GOOD THINGS. One at a time, you let your pile of good things grow". Love this thought!
Has anyone’s life gone exactly to plan? 🤷♀️ Mine sure hasn’t, and sometimes that’s been devastating but sometimes it’s been so much better than my plans...
“Kindness can transform someone's dark moment with a blaze of light. You'll never know how much your caring matters. Make a difference for another today.”
There’s no mistake too big, no path too far, no pain too deep, that grace doesn’t cover. If you find yourself feeling, “how did I get here”, “who have I become”... that is the first courageous step back.
How many silly fights would be solved by this simple direction. Really, this is life changing. This is the main thing I hear in schools, “she said this...”, “someone told me she did that...”, “I don’t know why she’s acting like this...”
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the one who is actually IN THE ARENA, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly;
I have a CONFESSION to make... I have been really struggling with how SELF-CRITICAL, condemning and harsh I am to myself. Saying things to myself that I would NEVER say to another person.
Change takes time. We can either fight it or embrace it. We can either hate the process, feeling like we’re failing each step, being so critical and have such unrealistic expectations. Oh yes, I can definitely do this 🤦♀️. OR we can fall in love 💜 with the process;
