Are you willing to give up your bliss all for a little breeze? — I was sitting in the early spring sun soaking up the warmth when the wind started to blow. I was instantly cold and almost as instantly annoyed that something had come in and disrupted my comfort. I started to stand up and go inside when a thought stopped me. …

1. Go meta. — When too much dust collects on a mirror, you can no longer see your reflection clearly. This doesn’t mean there’s something wrong with you or the mirror. It only means you need to clean it. The process of cleaning and restoring is something we are all familiar with; we clean…

3: You let every day feel like a success even if it doesn’t look like one. — We often think our mindsets are direct reflections of our realities but they aren’t. Happier people don’t always have more. Lost people don’t always have less. What happier people do have in common is a specific mindset, one of “always enough”. An always enough mindset can be characterized in many…

“You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.” — Jon Kabat-Zinn — Everyone yearns for the calm waters of consistency. We can all relate to wanting things to go according to our plans and wishing for people to stay the same. When they don’t, we try to make sense of our perceived betrayal by asking emotionally charged questions like how could that…

#3: Don’t look for fault, but leave space for faith. — No matter who you are, at some point or another, things won’t go your way. Plans fall through, hopes reveal themselves to be misguided, and you might lose what you want before it’s clear you’ll soon be granted something better. Even if you believe everything happens for a reason, even…

Some things are just for you and that’s okay. — How many times have you told yourself you can’t do something before you even tried? …

Beyond knowing your values, you need the courage to live them. — When you feel lost in life, a logical first step is to look at yourself in the mirror and ask yourself what you are doing wrong. Maybe on the surface, everything looks fine, perhaps even idyllic, but then why doesn’t it feel that way? Why have you gotten the things…

Growth happens spontaneously, beautifully, and perfectly, when the timing is right. — Growth is happening all around us, all the time. Trees don’t try to grow taller; they just do. Flowers don’t beg to bloom; they just open up when the timing is right. The same happens to us physically. From before we are born, our bodies change rapidly and uncontrollably up…

You don’t have to look for love. You only have to be ready to let it in. — There’s a lot to be said about love and one of the most common is that you have to love yourself before you can love anyone else. …