The Daily Ripple
The Daily Ripple
| “Each morning we are born again. What we do today matters most.” ~Buddha~ The week doesn’t start Monday. It starts right here, in the quiet before it all kicks off again. The Dude uses Sunday to get right — not busy, not productive. Just right. It’s a work in progress, like everything else. Set the table for the week you actually want. The Dude 🐸 Thought for the Day What’s one thing you can do today to make next week a little easier? |
“A tree grows tall because it has strong and solid roots.”~ Chinese Proverb ~ Everything’s pulling at you today — the notifications, the noise, six directions at once wanting an answer right now. Before anything can grow up, it has to grow down first. Nobody sees the roots. They just see the tree standing tall,…
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence.”~Calvin Coolidge~ There’s a tree that grows sideways out of a crack in solid rock. No good soil, barely any water, wind hitting it every single day. By all logic it shouldn’t be there. But it just kept growing toward the light, a little at a…
“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished”~Lao Tzu~ Not every day is a rapids day. Some days the current barely moves. The water is still. Nothing seems to be happening. You wonder if you’re even going anywhere. You are. The slow river is still the river. Still moving. Still forward. Still taking you somewhere….
“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”~Ferris Bueller~ Everybody’s in a hurry these days. Phones buzzing. Feeds scrolling. Calendars stacked wall to wall. We chase the next thing before we’ve even felt the thing we’re in. Here’s the truth nobody tells you: the…
“There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally.”~ Don Miguel Ruiz ~ The Dude has a hammock. It’s not fancy. It’s just where he goes when he needs to feed his head instead of empty it. A book somebody mentioned. A film he finally got around to….
“There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs.”~Zig Ziglar~ No shortcuts here. Give Zink a rope, a vine, a tree — it’s the hard way up, hand over hand, because that’s the only way that actually gets you anywhere real. Nobody hands you the top. You climb for it, one pull…