Gentleness

“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes — including you.”~Anne Lamott~ Your phone needs to recharge. Your laptop needs to recharge. Turns out, so do you. The Dude figured this out the hard way. Now he builds the pause in before the day builds it out of him. Unplug….

“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”~ Bruce Lee ~ Talent’s overrated. Most people chasing a goal aren’t more gifted than the person next to them — they’ve just decided what actually matters and stopped giving energy to everything else. That’s focus. Not doing more. Doing less, better, on purpose. Distraction is…

“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…

“You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.”~Jon Kabat-Zinn~ A hummingbird beats its wings 80 times per second. Eighty times. Per second. If your attention is somewhere else — and let’s be honest, it usually is — that thing was here and gone before you even looked up. A flash of green…

“If I stand in the center of a Hula Hoop, all the territory inside the hula hoop is my concern, my business, and within my power to change. Everything outside of it is none of my business, and out of my control.”~Hula Hoop Larry~ Picture a hula hoop, dropped right at your feet. Everything inside…

“Much can be learned from a river.”~Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha~ It doesn’t force anything. It finds the path of least resistance — not out of weakness, but out of wisdom. It flows around what it can’t move through. It carves canyons with patience, not force. It never stops moving. Even when it looks still. There’s a…