Do your best. Quite often, you will fall short. Your best will not always be good enough. These shortcomings are valuable lessons. Your failures are there to teach you about your boundaries and limitations. More importantly, however, failure exists to make you question yourself, your dedication to your path, and your will to succeed. If … Continue reading Failure As Fuel
Seek out beauty, goodness, and light in the world. Embrace it, accentuate it, and contribute to it. If you cannot find it, create it. Be the beauty, goodness, and light you needed when you were searching, desperate and alone. Be the beauty, goodness, and light the world needs. The more of this that you bring … Continue reading Beauty, Goodness, And Light
When you are doing something for others, be certain that they actually want or need what you have to offer. Otherwise, you are wasting both your time and theirs. Often, what you have to give and what someone else needs do not align. This could be an issue of either fit or timing. Either way, … Continue reading Fitting Service To Need
The thing someone appears to be upset about may not actually have anything to do with you. Simply because someone is upset around you does not necessarily mean that you did something wrong or that you need to intervene. Even if another person’s frustration, anger, or irritation are aimed directly toward you, you still may … Continue reading A Little Compassion
Grace will only take you so far; your feet have to take you the rest of the way. Grace is an often overlooked and under appreciated facet of life. You do not control it. Nor do you necessarily deserve it. It is a gift, given to you without any thought or effort on your part. … Continue reading Receiving The Gift Of Grace
