Category: Moments of Wisdom

You’re on your way at your own pace and that’s perfectly great. Keep chugging along as you are and you’ll get to where you’re going at just the right time. For now, know that you’re exactly where you’re supposed to be.

You are not amazing like other people — and that’s okay. You’re amazing like you, and that is far more impressive than a thousand look-alike beauty queens and kings, my dear. Keep being beautifully, amazingly you.

What can you learn from that thing that you’re going through? How can it help you level up as a human tomorrow, next week, or next year? There’s often a sliver of shiny stuff in troubles that can help us shift our focus, even if it’s after-the-fact, to how hard-won wisdom makes us even better.

There will always be critics. If you’re doing the best you can with what you have, and people still insist on slinging their slime in your direction, let it slide right off your face like you’re a well-greased skillet. No one is in your shoes but you, and you know how to wear them better than anyone else.

The only difference between you and a star is the way your molecules are combined. Your shine and your light is every bit as important as the Sun. Or Proxima Centauri. So — go be the fabulous thing you are!

Building someone up today with a single compliment will absolutely have side effects. They may include feeling warm and tingly inside, a delightful desire to make a difference, and joy at seeing that you put a twinkle in someone’s eye.

Hurtful words aren’t worth a thing. They’re like sticky tar and can really hold you back. So, if someone tosses a few out at you, duck, dance around them, or let them slide right on by. Be like the dish detergent that cuts grease and washes geese.

Broken people are the best. Seriously. While you might think that broken or damaged is less than, think again. If you’ve been through the wringer, beat up, punched down, and busted in the eye, you have more wisdom, knowledge and, yes, value, to bring to the table than someone who hasn’t had to put their bits back together.

Regrets? Guilt? That only means you’re a better person today than when you made a mistake or a choice that makes you now feel like you screwed it all up. You’re growing. You’re changing. You’re becoming more aware and more amazing each day — and THAT is something to be celebrated.

Wisdom rarely comes from choosing the right path all the time. Instead, it comes from taking shortcuts and going offroad — sometimes by accident, sometimes on purpose — and learning from these detours. Do it in your own time and your own way.

What if you aren’t actually slipping backwards? Perhaps you’re really just backing up to get a running start!

Look at you! You’re starting to remember that you have it in you. That you can beat up any odds that might be stacked against you. Now, now… don’t say you’re not much. You might not be ready to say how amazing you are out loud, but if you start with just a next-to-silent whisper, that’s some serious progress. You’re breathtaking.