You're a work of art

Reframe: There is so much happiness in letting go.

Become the version of yourself who is aligned with the life you want

Your power is found in facing the parts of you that believe you don’t have any. The simplest way to recognize them is this is to notice what triggers you. What you procrastinate on. What you avoid. What feels too big, too uncomfortable, too exposing. That’s where your power is hiding and these reflections will typically come in the form of another person. In the things they say, the patterns they mirror and the emotions they activate in you, what you tolerate. Not because they are the problem but because they are revealing where the work still is. What you feel strongly about in others is often pointing you back to something in yourself that’s ready to be met

A little old lady today reminded me that I need to take advantage of this one life I have and go live it in full without waiting for the “perfect” moment, without shrinking myself for the comfort of others, and without assuming there will always be more time

Growing together is the most beautiful kind of love

Stop being seduced by attention

You do not have nine lives. You have one body, one timeline, one set of years that will not be returned to you for revision. The elderly people who say they thought they would live forever are not being poetic. They are describing a very specific and very common failure of the human imagination to make the future feel as real and as urgent as the present. Your future self is a real person who will live in the body and the circumstances and the consequences of the decisions you are making right now. She deserves better than to inherit the results of your present comfort and present avoidance.

If leveling up bothers you, it’s probably because you’re imagining that next version of yourself in an environment you outgrew a long time ago. Ofcourse it feels uncomfortable. Ofcourse it feels irritating. Ofcourse it feels unfair. You’re trying to expand while mentally staying in a space that can’t hold you anymore. Growth doesn’t feel natural when you’re still attached to places, people, and patterns that were built for your old identity. You’re not afraid of leveling up. You’re afraid of what it will require you to leave behind

You focus on the things you want by aligning yourself with them, not by obsessing over the things you want that are outside of you