August: A Season of Transitions and New Beginnings
August 4, 2024
We cannot direct the wind,
but we can adjust the sails.
~Bertha Calloway
Embracing Summer
July 28, 2024
Rest is not idleness,
and to lie sometimes on the grass
under trees on a summer's day,
listening to the murmur of the water,
or watching the clouds float across the sky,
is by no means a waste of time.
John Lubbock
Call Me Crazy
July 21, 2024
One can choose to go back toward safety
or forward toward growth.
Growth must be chosen again and again;
fear must be overcome again and again.
– Abraham Maslow
Awkward - navigating challenges in communication
July 14, 2024
To effectively communicate,
we must realize that we are all different
in the way we perceive the world
and use this understanding
as a guide to our communication with others.
- Tony Robbins
You are Worthy of Laughter and Play
June 30, 2024
I have laughed.
Oh how I have laughed.
I have laughed so hard with so many wonderful people
that I now wear the marks.
Mother Nature has engraved me as one,
‘who laughed whenever she could’.
I wear the tattoo of the joyful,
and that makes me swell with pride.
How can I hate upon these lines
when I remember the nights, the music, the dancing,
the fun, the tears of laughter
and the blindingly joyful light.
Give me a mark for every night I felt alive
and I will show them to the world with pride.
I have laughed.
Oh how I have laughed.
I hope you have laughed too my friend.
And if you have not, start now.
It’s never too late.
~Donna Ashworth
What fuels YOU?
June 23, 2024
For fast-acting relief
try slowing down.
-Lily Tomlin
Summer Pleasures
June 2, 2024
Let us dance in the sun,
wearing wild flowers in our hair.
– Susan Polis Schutz
Live with Intention
May 26, 2024
Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen Hard.
Practice wellness.
Play with abandon.
Laugh.
Choose with no regret.
Appreciate your friends.
Continue to learn.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is.
― Mary Anne Radmacher
The Art of Abundance
May 19, 2024
The key to abundance
is meeting limited circumstances
with unlimited thoughts.
~Marianne Williamson
Outside the Comfort Zone
May 12, 2024
Comfort zone:
simply means the routine of one’s daily life
– it is a psychological state
in which one feels familiar, safe, at ease, and secure.
― Roy T. Bennetts
YOU are ENOUGH
May 5, 2024
Imperfections are not inadequacies;
they are reminders
that we're all in this together.
~Brene Brown
April 28, 2024
But there was a difference between being stuck
and choosing to stay.
Between being found and finding yourself.
― Martina Boone
April 21, 2024
Let go of certainty.
The opposite isn’t uncertainty.
It’s openness,
curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox,
rather than choose up sides.
The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves
exactly as we are,
but never stop trying to learn and grow.
— Tony Schwartz
April 14, 2024
To build a strong team,
you must see someone else’s strength
as a complement to your weakness
and not a threat to your position or authority.
~Christine Caine
April 7, 2024
Learning life's lessons is not about
making your life perfect,
but about seeing life as it was meant to be.
~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
March 24, 2024
This new day is too dear,
with its hopes and invitations,
to waste a moment on the yesterdays.
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
Spring Fling
March 17,2024
There are always flowers,
for those who want to see them.
-Henri Matisse
March 10.2024
Be softer with you.
You are a breathing thing.
A memory to someone.
A home to a life.
– Nayyirah Waheed
March 3, 2024
You are a firecracker in everything you do.
Celebrate yourself everyday.
– Hiral Nagda
February 11, 2024
Live in absolute bliss.
One moment of deep appreciation of beauty
that surrounds you
can change your perception of life.
― Debasish Mridha
February 25, 2024
Motivation is what gets you started.
Habit is what keeps you going.
― Jim Ryun
He** Yes!
January 28,2024
Find a way to say yes to things.
Say yes to invitations to a new country,
say yes to meet new friends,
say yes to learning a new language,
picking up a new sport. Yes is how you get your first job, and your next job,
and your spouse, and even your kids.
Even if it's a bit edgy,
a bit out of your comfort zone,
saying yes means that you will do something new,
meet someone new, and make a difference in your life.
Yes lets you stand out in a crowd,
be the optimist, to stay positive,
be the one everyone comes to.
Yes is what keeps us all young.
~Eric Schmidt
Easy Like Sunday Morning
January 7, 2023
May your choices reflect your hopes,
not your fears.
– Nelson Mandela
Welcoming in the New Year
December 31, 2023
And now we welcome the new year.
Full of things that have never been.
—Rainer Maria Rilke
Identifying Successes
December 17, 2023
Success is not how high you have climbed,
but how you make a positive difference
to the world.
― Roy T. Bennett
Finding Peace
December 9, 2023
Learning to distance yourself
from all the negativity
is one of the greatest lessons
to achieve inner peace.
― Roy T. Bennett
Find Your Strength in a Word
December 3, 2023
Words mean more than what is set down on paper.
It takes the human voice
to infuse them with deeper meaning.
-Maya Angelou
These are the Days
November 12, 2023
There are two basic motivating forces:
fear and love.
When we are afraid, we pull back from life.
When we are in love,
we open to all that life has to offer
with passion, excitement, and acceptance.
~John Lennon
Loosening the Grip
November 5, 2023
The more you try to control something,
the more it controls you.
Free yourself
and let things take their own natural course.
~Anonymous
October 29, 2023
For me there is something primitively soothing
about this music,
and it went straight to my nervous system,
making me feel ten feet tall.
Eric Clapton
October 8, 2023
There are certain life lessons
that you can only learn in the struggle.
― Idowu Koyenikan
September 24, 2023
To have an abundant life, rich and full,
means seeing the shortness of the day and seizing it,
living the bucket list before the sun sets.
It requires the quick gulp and the leaping blind,
discarding what is heavy and worthless,
investing in eternal things,
counting as precious the gifts as they come
and holding them loose because they will soon be gone.
― Catherine L. Morgan
September 17, 2023
Be mindful of your self-talk.
It is a conversation with the universe.
You are a being, full of infinite possibilities!
― Angie Karan
September 10, 2023
Perfect happiness is a beautiful sunset,
the giggle of a grandchild, the first snowfall.
It's the little things that make happy moments,
not the grand events.
Joy comes in sips, not gulps.
~Sharon Draper
An Empty Lantern Provides No Light
September 4, 2023
An empty lantern provides no light.
Self-care is the fuel that allows
your light to shine brightly.
– anonymous
August 20, 2023
The person who is willing
to say yes to experience
is the person
who discovers new frontiers.
– John Templeton
August 13, 2023
One way to get the most out of life
is to look upon it as an adventure.
~William Feather
August 6, 2023
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
~Mark Twain
Embrace the Spirit of Adventure
July 30, 2023
One way to get the most out of life
is to look upon it as an adventure.
— William Feather
You're an Original, You're a Masterpiece
July 23.2023
You're an original, an individual, a masterpiece.
Celebrate that:
don't let your uniqueness make you shy.
Don't be someone other than the wonder you are.
Every star is important to the sky.
~Douglas Pagels
July 9, 2023
Rest is not idleness,
and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees
on a summer's day,
listening to the murmur of the water,
or watching the clouds float across the sky,
is by no means a waste of time.
July 2, 2023
Authentic joy is not a euphoric state
or a feeling of being high.
Rather, it is a state of appreciation
that allows us to participate fully in our lives.
We train in rejoicing in the good fortune
of self and others.
― Pema Chodron
How often do you drag yourself down?
June 25, 2023
What happens when you shift your thoughts from I have to, to I get to!
June 18, 2023
I lied and said I was busy.
I was busy;
but not in a way most people understand.
I was busy taking deeper breaths.
I was busy silencing irrational thoughts.
I was busy calming a racing heart.
I was busy telling myself I am okay.
Sometimes, this is my busy -
and I will not apologize for it.
― Brittin Oakman
June 11, 2023
Life is not just the passing of time.
Life is the collection of experiences
and their intensity.
~Jim Rohn
May 21, 2023
When I dare to be powerful,
to use my strength in the service of my vision,
then it becomes less and less important
whether I am afraid.
― Audre Lorde
The Power of Setting Intentions
May 13,2023
Dream higher than the sky
and deeper than the ocean.
~ Proverb.
May 7, 2023
When you engage in people pleasing
you are out of integrity with yourself,
your goals, your dreams, and your life’s mission.
– Eileen Anglin
April 30, 2023
Let go of who you think you’re supposed to be; embrace who you are.
-Brene Brown
April 23, 2023
Your soul is infinitely creative.
It is alive and expansive in nature.
It is curious and playful,
changing with the tides of time.
-Debbie Ford
April 2, 2023
I define connection as the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued;
when they can give and receive without judgment;
and when they derive sustenance and strength
from the relationship.
-Brené Brown
March 26, 2023
Daring to set boundaries
is about having the courage
to love ourselves, even when we risk
disappointing others.
~Brene Brown
March 19, 2023
Spring cleaning isn’t just about sorting through things, and getting rid of clutter.
It’s about taking stock of who you are,
and how others see you.
It’s a chance to redefine yourself,
to change expectations,
and to remember that it’s never too late
to recapture who you were,
or to aim for where you want to be.
— Unknown
March 12,2023
Give yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation
in awe of everything you see around you.
Go outside and turn your attention
to the many miracles around you.
This five-minute-a-day regimen
of appreciation and gratitude
will help you to focus your life in awe.
-Wayne Dyer
February 26, 2023
We didn’t realize we were making memories;
we just knew we were having fun.
– Anonymous
February 5, 2023
“Letter writing allows us to be alone yet connected.
We need a certain amount of solitude
in order to have true ideas to communicate.
But few of us desire solitude all the time ....
Yet solitude is what makes us contemplative and receptive, more aware of life's gifts
and our own special blessings.”
― Alexandra Stoddard, Gift of a Letter
January 22,2023
“GET RID OF CLUTTER
AND YOU MAY JUST FIND
IT WAS BLOCKING THE DOOR
YOU’VE BEEN LOOKING FOR.”
– KATRINA MAYER
January 15, 2023
“When you rest,
you catch your breath
and it holds you up,
like water wings…”
— Anne Lamott
January 8, 2023
Even if is a bit edgy, a bit out of your comfort zone,
saying yes means that you will do something new,
meet someone new, and make a difference in your life,
and likely in others' lives as well...
Yes is what keeps us all young.
Yes is a tiny word that can do big things.
Say it often.
~Eric Schmidt
January 1, 2023
“Peace is the result of retraining your mind
to process life as it is,
rather than as you think it should be.”
—Wayne W. Dyer
December 18,2022
Happiness cannot be traveled to,
owned, earned, worn or consumed.
Happiness is the spiritual experience
of living every minute
with love, grace, and gratitude.
~ Denis Waitley
December 11, 2022
Nothing is impossible,
the word itself says 'I'm possible'!
― Audrey Hepburn.
December 4, 2022
Pull up a chair.
Take a taste.
Come join us.
Life is so endlessly delicious.
― Ruth Reichl
November 27.2022
Stress level: extreme.
It's like she was a jar with the lid screwed on too tight,
and inside the jar were pickles, angry pickles,
and they were fermenting, and about to explode.
― Fiona Wood, Six Impossible Things
November 13, 2022
If you want to conquer the anxiety of life,
live in the moment,
live in the breath.
― Amit Ray
November 6, 2022
We spend January 1st walking through our lives,
room by room,
drawing up a list of work to be done,
cracks to be patched.
Maybe this year,
to balance the list,
we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives …
not looking for flaws
but for potential.
-ELLEN GOODMAN
July 2, 2023
Authentic joy is not a euphoric state
or a feeling of being high.
Rather, it is a state of appreciation
that allows us to participate fully in our lives.
We train in rejoicing in the good fortune
of self and others.
― Pema Chodron
October 30, 2023
Autumn leaves shower like gold,
like rainbows,
as the winds of change begin to blow,
signaling the later days of autumn.
— Dan Millman
October 23, 2022
Joy is not constant.
It comes to us in moments – often ordinary moments.
Sometimes we miss out on the bursts of joy
because we’re too busy chasing down
the extraordinary moments...
~Brene Brown
October 16, 2022
In the game of life,
joy and enthusiasm are the voice
of Spirit letting you know
that you are "getting warmer..."
~Alan Cohen, from A Deep Breath of Life
September 25, 2022
Happiness is when what you think,
what you say, and what you do
are in harmony.
September 18, 2022
To be more childlike, you don't have to give up being an adult.
The fully integrated person is capable of being both an adult and a child simultaneously.
Recapture the childlike feelings of wide-eyed excitement, spontaneous appreciation, cutting loose, and being full of awe and wonder at this magnificent universe.