Category: Moments of Wisdom

If you’re one of those “negative people” with “bad vibes” that social media is endlessly urging people to dump from their lives, it can really hurt and be discouraging. Maybe you’re struggling with depression, sadness or illness and are fighting just to keep your lips above water or to dig yourself out of a great big hole. Darling, keep digging. The strongest and bravest of us all have overcome incredible challenges, cycles of feeling broken or damaged, and crawled our way back up to transformation. You’re still worthy and wonderful while you’ve got that dirt on your nose.

You know that thing that gives you the chills? That thing that maybe people told you was a waste of time? Learn to play that instrument. Paint those happy trees. Write that book. Research that complicated scientific formula. Unleash your passion and find your talents. You deserve those chills.

You, my dearest, are the pathmaker of your life. You get to choose the material your road is built out of and where you are going. Yes, you will encounter mountains and oceans. There you get to decide if you’ll tunnel through, build bridges, or reroute. Though the landscape is ever changing, challenging your creativity and determination, never forget — you ARE the pathmaker.

Your existence is a total miracle. The likelihood of you developing into your “you-ness” is basically zero, yet your Creator found a way to produce your existence and you did the legwork to become who you are today. You’re an amazing anomaly of improbability.

It’s time to move forward. Crawling counts. Tiny, trembling first steps count. Wheeling yourself forward an inch? That also counts. Your speed, the space you cover, or how far you go today are the things that don’t matter. The only thing that does? That you simply began to do the thing. Your momentum will grow once you get going. You’ll see.

Once you stop fearing the storm, you’ll realize that you ARE the storm. Your tears are the rain. Your outcries are the thunder. Your actions are the lightning. You are a force of nature.

Failure? Pffft. You could fail a zillion times and you’d still be an extremely important part of this world. Failing is only learning in disguise — and the more you learn, the more you grow and the more wisdom and valuable stuff gets drawn into your life. Keep leveling up.

If the future looks scary right now, don’t live in it. You can’t just unpack your bags and stay in a place that doesn’t yet exist. You own only this moment, and what you do with the right now is what helps shape tomorrow. Take it five minutes at a time (or five seconds if you need to) and get yourself through each moment.

The world is lucky to have you. Not even kidding. The perfect arrangement of atoms, cells and molecules that make up the whole of you only happens once. How amazing is THAT? How amazing are YOU?

So, you have a voice in your head saying you’re not enough, do you? Well… that’s not YOUR voice. Maybe it’s your anxiety or depression talking. Maybe it’s the words of the first kid who bullied you in the 2nd grade or your 7th grade PE teacher. Maybe it’s the voice of family trauma. But it IS NOT you. It is a lie. You are enough, my friend.

You belong. You really belong here. Living, eating, dreaming and doing… it is all created for you so that you can make your own special mark on the world.

There is more information out there than anyone can learn in a lifetime. You could learn something (or even several somethings) new every day, and there would still be stuff you didn’t know. Still, the passionately curious are winners, because gobbling up knowledge leads to new ideas and ways to do things. It doesn’t matter if your interest is birds, bees, or hydrodynamics. Maybe you dig geology, genealogy, or giraffes. When you get your noodle interested in something, chase it and the knowledge it brings into your life. You never know where that will take you… but you can bet your curiosity will bring you closer to joy and true success.