If your heart is searching for it, you already have it. You are a sharp, well-placed power. For every question and desire you have, there’s a pure and useful answer. Take this wisdom and sprinkle it all over your life. 1. Learning how to forgive is harder than I expected. What do you imagine pure …
Perfect little squares shouldn’t be creating the rulebook. Social media is not necessarily honest, good, or useful. You know better than to compare yourself to something that isn’t real. Assumption is poison. You see into the lives of friends, acquaintances, and strangers every single day. It’s easy to assume these lives are perfect, somehow operating …
Journaling is a form of meditation, even prayer, taking place on paper. Your heart and mind are in conversation. Break down your walls with words. While we don’t like to think about it, life moves by pretty fast. And humans are sometimes forgetful and clumsy with our thoughts. As we experience the rawness of living, …
The benefits of sleep are endless. Let your nights be a time of deep rest and healing. Your body needs to recalibrate. We live in a society that’s bad at sleeping. Mornings are early and nights are late. While we’re busy making room for lots of living, we often forget what’s equally if not more …
Your inner voice is the loudest. Harness the power of positive self-talk to construct deeper self-love and belief. Your mind is a delicate, essential ecosystem that needs the nourishment of loving, kind thoughts. Inner chatter is a powerful thing. We talk to ourselves every minute of every day. Let’s choose to make those conversations beautiful …
Your brain was built for reading more books. Reading changes everything. The way you think, the way you speak, the way you approach life. What’s more, reading can feel like a kind of meditation. When you set the rest of the world aside and allow yourself to become totally lost in a book, your brain …
You stop procrastinating by understanding your inner power. Your brilliance has no good reason to wait. “I’ll finish that soon,” and, “I can make some more time for that later,” all sound like benign and even proactive intentions. But they’re really our anxieties showing up and making our decisions for us. Procrastination makes smart, capable …
How to be more productive. Twenty-four hours seems like a long time, but we all know that’s not the case. Hours slip by quickly and days seem to disappear. It almost feels as if time is speeding up. Falling into inefficiency and laziness is all too easy— aimlessly scrolling, being unable to focus, and getting …
Making (and keeping) good friends takes special care. Countless connections are made in a lifetime. Brief conversations in a coffee shop, quick smiles on the street, chance encounters on the train. A handful of these passing exchanges will turn into something more. A few will become lifelong friendships. The journey from stranger to friend is …
Your loneliness wants to teach you self-love. Let’s be honest. Feeling lonely is easy. It’s an emotion that shows up for everyone in some capacity sooner rather than later. It comes in waves, sometimes strongly and other times softly, mostly unannounced. Feeling lonely every so often is normal. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t do …