Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. Gustave Flaubert

Am I ready to change myself? How do I return to softness again? The answers are in our actions.

Doesn’t matter how old we are, or what we’ve experienced, it’s always possible to renew ourselves.

It would be a sorry life if each day was the same.

Every breath, every lesson, every fall is a chance to re-birth a new you.

Some days we stand in the midst of a violent storm. Flying debris hitting us from all sides. The only thing we seek is to stand strong and rooted to the ground. 

In those moments we have to remind ourselves of those times in the past when we set the world on fire with our passion. Where everything was in sync, our mojo was a palpable force and we felt like we were floating on air. 

We will be stripped by life at times but still we remain whole. We will always desire to be more than we are.

Sometimes fear holds us in the storm and sometimes we use that fear to light up our greatest creations.

Moment to moment everything changes.  

How or where do you believe in yourself first - mind, heart, soul? What about your gut instinct - the one where your body feels lighter after a good decision or where you feel tingles all over telling you something is not right?

What do you listen to unequivocally?

“The mind is the last part of yourself to listen to. It thinks of everything you can lose. The heart thinks of everything you can give, and the soul thinks of everything you are. It is up to you to decide which of those three is the most important…” Neale Donald Walsh

Breathe.

Simplify.

Listen.

Everything is going to be alright.

Things that make me happy

- My cat sleeping in my lap

- Finishing a great book

- Singing off key to my favorite song

- Fresh strawberries, mangoes and pineapples

- Sitting outside on a warm night watching the stars

- Great conversations

- Perfume

- Smiles from strangers

- Old photos

Paint your reality. 

A dash of abundance, bursts of vibrancy, some optimism - magic and miracles in overlay.

Your life. 

Letting go means we can be here and begin again. It also means you can hear what really needs to be heard. 

THE MAN IN THE ARENA
      

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. 

Theodore Roosevelt