The sooner you accept the things you cannot change, the faster you can start working on the things you can.
There is nothing more wasteful than fretting about things you have no control over.
All of that energy could be otherwise spent on improving your life or yourself.
You have limited resources so you must learn to use them wisely.
Your time, energy, and attention are nonrenewable.
Focus on what you can do and what you can effect.
The rest is really none of your business anyway.
Seek peace.
But start small.
Make it easy for yourself.
Start where you are comfortable and undistracted.
Sit.
Breathe.
There is no need to hurry.
Meaningful change is a slow process.
Has your life changed significantly since yesterday?
Have you kept all of the promises you made to yourself?
Are you doing the things you said you would do?
Or are you the same person today that you were yesterday, doing the same things you always do, making the same excuses you always make?
We have all been there, but you have to stop lying to yourself.
Stop making promises to yourself that you cannot or will not keep.
Set realistic goals and start working toward them now.
Do a little bit every day and do not stop.
Or, if you do stop, start again as soon as possible.
Meaningful transformation is difficult and it takes time.
You will not see the results you seek overnight.
Becoming the person you want to be requires discipline and dedication, and it is quite often inconvenient and uncomfortable.
But if you want to be a better person tomorrow than you were yesterday, take action today.
You never truly know the influence you have over the lives of others.
Even if they tell you, it will give you a superficial understanding at best.
Words fall short.
They do not tell the whole story.
The influence you have on others is experienced at a level deeper than logic or reason can understand or explain.
It goes deeper than emotion.
We affect each other cellularly.
Everything you do and say, even what you think and feel, changes everything and everyone around you regardless of whether or not you or they know it.
In your own small way, you have the power to change the world.
Through your words, deeds, thoughts, and feelings, you get to decide whether you want to change it for better or for worse.
Every time you act courageously, you are changed.
With every courageous act, you, yourself, become more courageous.
This does not mean that you will have no fear.
You may never be truly fearless.
It would not be good if you were.
Rather, it means that you have more confidence in facing the fears that you do have.
And the more you face your fears, the more faith you have in your ability to overcome them.
Fear begins to lose its power over you.
The obstacles that stand in your way start to feel smaller and less overwhelming.
You may even begin to look forward to the opportunity to face your fears.
You may begin to seek out challenges that you would have previously shied away from.
You start to realize that fear is just a feeling and that actions are more powerful than feelings.
In this way, courage is compounding.
The effort you put into courageous action is given back to you many times over in the form of gifts you could not have imagined when you took your first step into your fear.
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