Intention

“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”~Maya Angelou~ Some days you’re on fire — ideas flying, connections popping, everything clicking. Other days you can’t seem to get anything done and you wonder what’s wrong with you. Nothing’s wrong with you. You have two gears. Ideation mode and execute mode….

“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…

“Speak softly and carry a big stick.”~Theodore Roosevelt~ Meet Tink. You don’t hear him coming. That’s kind of the whole thing with Tink. He’s not the loudest one in the room, not the one making sure everyone knows what he just did. He just shows up, does the work, and by the time you look…

“It’s not the destination, it’s the journey.”~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~ Nobody tells you that when you start. You just pick a direction and go. Some days the road is smooth. Some days you’re white-knuckling it through weather you didn’t see coming. Either way, you’re moving. Either way, something is happening to you — and…

“The meaning of life is to give life meaning.”~Viktor Frankl~ Nobody hands you meaning. You make it. Frankl figured this out the hard way — surviving concentration camps, watching everything stripped away except one thing nobody could touch: his ability to choose what any of it meant to him. You’ve got that same freedom, minus…