Higher Power

“We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.”~Nelson Mandela~ Nobody’s waiting on the right moment. There isn’t one. The time to call your mom, the time to make things right with somebody, the time to finally start the thing you keep putting off — it’s not…

“The energy of the mind is the essence of life.”~ Aristotle ~ We tend to think of energy as physical — get up, get moving, get the blood pumping. And sure, that first breath of morning air does something for you. But the energy that actually carries your day is mental. It’s where your mind’s…

“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…

“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…

“Do the right thing even when no one is watching.”~Unknown~ Nobody saw you do it. You got up anyway. You made the call you’d been putting off. You chose the salad. You bit your tongue when you didn’t have to. You showed up when it would’ve been easy not to. Nobody clapped. Nobody liked it….

“Fellowship is heaven; lack of fellowship is hell.”~ William Morris ~ True fellowship has become a lost art in this world. Not networking, not being in the same space as somebody while you’re both looking down — real fellowship. Interacting with your fellows on a human level. That ability hasn’t gone anywhere. It’s still there,…