In the end, that’s all that really matters. How did we impact the people around us and touch their lives in a positive way? Did we leave the ones who came across our path a little bit better off than we found them? Did we love our hearts out. Love hard. Get your heart broken. Laugh. Cry. Suffer. Explore. Wear your scars with pride. Allow life to teach you in its mysterious ways. Risk it all. Put your heart on the line. Fall down. Get back up no matter what. The only guarantee we have in life is that everything is going to change. So knowing that, you really should take that chance and go for it. Play to win. Don’t play to not…
the journey goes on…
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What you have in front of you, right at this moment, is a blank piece of paper. What you write on that piece of paper depends entirely upon you. No one can write it for you. The pen isn’t going to magically move by itself.So knowing that, what do you want to write? How do you want this story to take place from this moment on? Do you want it to be filled with courage, love, compassion and joy? Or do you want it to be filled with bitterness, greed, resentment and self-pity?Yes, the pages of the past have been written and unfortunately you can’t go back and make physical edits. But that doesn’t mean that story is static. While the words may be…
A long time ago, I read a line by T.S. Eliot that sparked something deep within. He said, “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” I immediately knew that whatever I had imagined didn’t even come close to how incredible things could be. For well over a year now, I’ve had this lingering pull within my intuition that I had to take a journey that would lead me on such a path. I’ve delayed and delayed again, but no matter how long I put it off it always came back to me relentlessly demanding my attention and commitment. I think in many ways that’s how you know your intuition is speaking. You can deny…
I hope you find the courage to take off the mask and live as you truly are. Let go of the fears, doubts, worries and judgements from the outside world and what they make think. This is about you and your journey of truth, love, compassion and wisdom. My teacher told me something a few years ago that I haven’t forgotten and remind people in my life of from time to time when they really need it. In fact, it has been one of the most profound lessons I’ve ever learned and I will pass it along to you today. She said, “You must remember the hierarchy. First, their is The Higher. What you believe in. It is the most important part…
When you turn within, you will hear a gentle whisper directing you towards the path that will help you become all you are meant to be. There, lives ancient wisdom. Older and wiser than you could possibly imagine. All caring. All loving. All knowing. And your greatest task is to trust that voice that comes from within and to follow all the way through to the end. Quiet your mind and listen to what you know. You’ll know you’re “there” when you can feel it in your bones but find it difficult to put to words. That’s because your answer is not it a thought. It’s something far deeper than that. It’s a “knowing.” While there are endless choices, paths and options in…
Today, a huge story shifted for me. One that when I really sit back and think about it, it’s going to change many different things. I was talking with my dad on the phone about how I was having difficulty with stepping back from this mindset that was demanding everything be as close to perfection as possible. In having worked with this in the past, I know that ultimately perfectionism is the enemy of done and I’ve done a pretty decent job in making progress on what I wanted to dig into. But with new things I was trying to accomplish, there was this mindset that kept on coming back in that would constantly throw me off course or stall my movement forward. He…
There’s no turning back now. In this moment, as my feet hit the ground and I take my first steps towards manifesting a dream that has existed for most of my life, I’m reminded of that old Morpheus quote from The Matrix. “There’s a difference between knowing the path, and walking the path.” For a couple of years, I’ve known the path. I’ve studied, learned, practiced and even from time to time really started to run on it. But I always returned back. Coming back to this place over and over again was never where I was meant to stay. I arrived here because of a series of circumstances playing themselves out in a way where I eventually became trapped in a cycle (self-perpetuated…
“To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.” – Winston Churchill Life in its endless twists and turns brought me to this place – one that is uniquely fitted to my talents – with an opportunity to wipe the slate clean and to right so many wrongs that still call within my soul. I didn’t ask for a lot of what happened in my life. I didn’t manifest it. I didn’t claim it. No one ever…
The decision to face your deepest of fears is amongst the most courageous decisions you can possibly make and yet present the most challenging of circumstances. On one hand, the monumental will it takes to finally turn and face the darkness is to be celebrated in of itself. But the journey doesn’t end there. That’s only where it begins. What comes after that moment is where each of us are truly defined in our ability to light a once opaque path – holding onto our faith as much as possible – and move through whatever comes our way. The bog of failures and missteps will be endless. Fear, doubt and worry will rush in at any possible chance. The temptations will try to tear…
Every once in a great while we are given a unique opportunity to rise to the best versions of ourselves and embark upon a path of discovering who we really are. If we find the courage within ourselves to step forward and answer the call, we begin a process of such infinite change that predicting exactly where we will end up becomes impossible. All we know is that who we will become is closer to our true nature. These paths that exist in front of us come at a great cost. Sacrifices will need to be made. And usually, those sacrifices come at the cost of letting go of old ways of showing up in the world. In order to cross through the threshold…
