While you are going out into the world and taking care of everyone, who is taking care of you? Who nourishes, supports and believes in you? Who is there for you when everything feels like it’s going wrong? There are going to be many different types of people you come across in this lifetime. Most everyone will be seen as just a flash of a moment when you look back on it all. But then, there are going to be those rare few who ride with you all the way through. They’ve “got you.” They look after you, remind you of who you are and all that it has taken for you to get to where you are, and bring out the best in…
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There’s a fine balance between learning to let go and learning to hold on. Something I’ve noticed a lot going on is everyone is talking about “letting go of what’s no longer for you.” In many respects, that’s completely right and something valuable to practice. But there’s a distinction that exists between when is an appropriate time to let something go and when it’s absolutely critical not only to your relationships but also to your own growth as a human being to learn to fight for the truth. Often, an “Oh I just let go of it” is actually disguised as a deeper underlying fear. Fear of what might happen if it doesn’t work out so you got out in front of it. Fear…
In those moments of silence, when you hear the voice coming from within, who are you? Who are you being? What matters to you? What are your intentions, ambitions and dreams? Do not be scared of the quiet. Welcome it with open arms. Even though you may hear the voices of criticism, you can let those go. Quiet them down. Do not fear them. Do not run from them. Hear them. Calm them. Be fiercely compassionate with them. What does the 95 year old version of you say? You know, the voice that speaks with endless love, compassion, wisdom and care. The deepest wisest version of you. The one that has been guiding you all along. What does that voice tell you to do?…
There’s a voice within you that just knows. When you quiet everything down, you’ll start to hear it whisper. What is it guiding you to do? Who is it telling you to be? Where is it telling you to go? No one can tell you more about your path than this ancient voice. Its wisdom is infinite. But the hardest task of all is learning how to trust it. Most of the time, there’s not much traditional evidence to support its callings. In a world where everyone walks by sight instead of faith, learning how to correct your course because of a feeling within your bones is incredibly challenging. But you’ll never regret trusting it. You’ll never find yourself on the…
For a long time now, I’ve been seeking context. As I’ve been navigating through the land of a thousand tomorrows, it’s been pretty easy to begin to look at everything through the eyes of judgement. The Critic has been vicious at times. But even in all of that, I don’t know where I would be if I had just given up or even refused to change courses. Both of those options would have been disastrous. Even if I wasn’t ready to take on what I needed to, there’s a strange feeling in arriving to a place that you know will change the foundations of your life. I think that’s been the hardest part of this. I’m not being asked to do something simple or…
Failing hurts. Putting your heart into something and it not working out can be brutal. But like with all things, if you take time to really sit and learn from the experience, you’re going to grow. Losing at something can become one of your greatest teachers if you let it. You can learn things about yourself and life that you just can’t learn from winning. Of course you’re not aiming to fail. But knowing that it’s going to happen (and that it happens to everyone) is a huge part of moving forward. While the events that took place can be difficult to deal with on their own, the real focus has to be on your interpretation of those events. The stories you tell yourself…
You are exactly where you need to be in order to become who you are meant to be. This one takes faith. You can look to the outside world and find a million reasons as to why you think this isn’t true. The mind starts comparing and contrasting your life against everything that you see. And you’ll find no shortage of things to be bitter about. It will just compound over and over again until you’re utterly convinced everything about you is deficient. But you’ve forgotten one very important thing – nothing and no one you’re comparing yourself against is traveling the path you are on. They are unfolding in their own ways…just as you are. It’s your journey. No one else is on…
Learn to let go of the old to make room for the new. We are taught all our lives to hold on. Most of the time it’s out of fear. But when you hold onto things that are no longer for you, you prevent the things that are actually supposed to show up from arriving. You stop yourself from receiving the gifts of life. The things in the past are gone. They’ve drifted off into the ether. You can’t go back and change them. You can’t redo them. Those moments cannot be touched. All you have is now, this moment…and what you do in this moment determines the story that exists in the future. It’s hard to let go. I know. It’s one of…
You’ll know. Trust me, when that moment comes, the feeling is unmistakable. The mind is constantly trying to figure out where or where. Release that. Let it go. Trust yourself. Faith is a very personal conversation for pretty much everyone. As the years have gone on, I’ve had some significant events happen to me where I first completely lost my faith but then it came roaring back. It was hard to deny what I saw and experience. Those stories are for another day. But what I was left with was this – no matter how dark things may get, you can never forget that you are a light. I think we forget that at times. We look to find something outside of ourselves, but…
And the only way to receive what’s meant to be is to let go of what once was… We are taught all our lives to hold on. Most of the time it’s out of fear. Fear of loss. Fear of the future. Fear of the unknown. But when you hold onto things that are no longer for you, you prevent the things that are actually supposed to show up from arriving. You stop yourself from receiving the gifts of life and traveling the path you were always meant to take. The things in the past are gone. Their time came and went. They’ve drifted off into the ether. You can’t go back and change them. You can’t redo them. Those moments cannot be touched.…