Category: Self-Improvement
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Committing to Live Life Fully: A Letter from A Better Me
Dear Life, I’ve officially decided, I’m going to live you to the fullest. I’m tired of being scared of what the future holds and drained from my past mistakes. I’m finally going to forgive myself for all the times I didn’t know better and start living. I know longer want to be envious over what…
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Letting Go of Past Relationships
Dear Past, I’m letting you go of my attachment to you. I’ve let you hold me back for far too long. I will take the lessons you taught me without the attachments to the fear, anger, and pain. I’ve ruined too many relationships treating people like they were the people before them and that’s not…
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Sorry for the Times I Didn’t Put Humanity First
Dear Humanity, I owe you an apology. I got lost in what I was against, I lost sight of what I stood for. I’ve seen politics get uglier and uglier through the years and have felt enraged about some of the mud slinging. Yet, in my rage, I became one of them. One of the…
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You are NOT Stupid!
To the People who Refer to Themselves as Stupid: We all make mistakes! Mistakes are missteps, detours, and/or stepping stones to growth (as long as we learn from them). They definitely don’t make us stupid. We may try things and fail again and again. You are still not stupid. You may turn to drugs or…
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Please Stop Bashing People who Speak Out About Sexual Misconduct
To the Men and Women Who Are Bashing the People Speaking Out About Sexual Misconduct: There are so many reasons why people don’t speak up right away. Did you know that a lot of us who have said something right away get ignored and ridiculed? Do you know what that does to us when we…
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When Life Gets Messy Declutter
Whether life gets messy in your own heads or around us, the process of physically decluttering our lives is cathartic. When we declutter, we make room for peace. We also make room to open new doors, and see the importance of closing doors that no longer serve us. One of the most obvious examples I…
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Bring your Dreams to the Light
Wake up your dreams by moving towards them. Bring them to the light. Take one step right now that will bring you closer. If we want to live in the light of our dreams, we have first create the light by our actions. Only then will we have enough light to see where we are…
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#PerspectiveChallenge: People Suck
PERSPECTIVE: PEOPLE SUCK There is a difference between not liking a particular person’s choice and the belief PEOPLE SUCK. When we tell ourselves and/or anyone who will listen that people suck, we are asking the Universe to show us the people who suck. We put our focus on seeing it. There could be an unhealthy…
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Differences between Taking Responsibility and Blaming
Learning the differences between taking responsibility and blaming was one of the most powerful tools I’ve learned to live a fulfilling life. Now, I’ve been getting lessons on this one since I was a teenager. I think my mom’s favorite lines were, “I can’t make you do anything.” Along with, “I can’t make you feel…
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Love or Fear: The Straw-Hole Experiment
Over a decade ago, my friend Sarah gave me this image of us having a straw-holed vision of what is going on. A few years later, I took that image a step further and used it to create a visual example in a group project about the power of where we put our focus. I’ve used…
From A Loving Place 