Flow

“A ‘No’ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‘Yes’ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.”~ Attributed to Mahatma Gandhi ~ How many times did you say yes today before your feet hit the floor? Accept all cookies. Agree to terms. Yes, I’m still watching. Most of those yeses weren’t…

“Be gentle with yourself. You are doing the best you can with what you have today.”~ Unknown ~ Some days go the way you planned. Some days don’t. Today might’ve been one of the ones that didn’t — and that’s not a failure, that’s just a day. You don’t have to have it figured out…

“I can recapture everything when I write, my thoughts, my ideals and my fantasies.”~ Anne Frank ~ Memory’s a funny thing…it slips, it edits itself, it forgets the parts that mattered most. But a pen and a blank page don’t forget anything. Write it down, and it’s yours to keep. There’s something to just shutting…

“We have two ears and one mouth so we can listen twice as much as we speak.”~ Zeno of Citium (paraphrase, per Diogenes Laërtius) ~ Two ears. One mouth. Somebody did the math a long time ago. Next conversation, try it. Let them finish. Then wait one more beat, because the real stuff usually shows…

“Don’t make assumptions.”~ Don Miguel Ruiz ~ This is The Third Agreement. You don’t know. You think you do. You fill in the silence with a story. The unanswered text becomes rejection. The look across the room becomes judgment. The quiet becomes something to worry about. It’s not real. It’s a story you wrote without…

“You don’t have to go to work. You get to.”~ Anonymous ~ It’s easy to call it a grind. The alarm, the commute, the same conversations, the same tasks. But somewhere along the way we forgot…a lot of people would trade places with you in a heartbeat. And here’s the other thing nobody tells you:…