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“Always do your best.”~ Don Miguel Ruiz ~ This is The Fourth Agreement. Your best changes every day. Some days your best is moving mountains. Other days your best is getting out of bed. Both count. Neither one is wrong. The agreement isn’t to be perfect. It’s to show up fully with what you have…

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”~Mark Twain~ Everyone’s got an opinion about Monday. Dragging feet. Heavy sighs. The whole world acting like the alarm clock is the enemy. The Dude sees it different. Monday isn’t a punishment. It’s a starting line. And there’s something electric about a starting line if you let yourself…

“You’re only here for a short visit. Don’t hurry. Don’t worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.”~Walter Hagen~ Mama’s got a rule: if it’s pretty, you stop for it. Doesn’t matter if she’s got somewhere to be. She’ll slow her whole walk down for a good patch of wildflowers along the…

“When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.”~Lao Tzu~ Ollie doesn’t size up the other dogs at the river. Big dog, small dog, fast dog, slow dog — doesn’t matter to him. He just runs, tail going, completely himself, no comparing, no competing. And every dog…

“Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.”~Albert Camus~ Nobody gets to tell you who you are today. Not your past. Not your mistakes. Not the people who wrote you off or the version of yourself you’re trying to leave behind. That’s what freedom really means. Not just flags and fireworks — though those…

“A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then it will go on overload and blow up.”~Erma Bombeck~ Sound familiar? You’re not lazy. You’re not broken. You’re just full — running fourteen tabs your brain never asked to open. Computers get a reboot. You get a porch,…