The Quiet Win

“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…

“Opportunity doesn’t always arrive looking inspiring. Sometimes it arrives disguised as the thing you would have avoided if you had been given the choice.”~Slim Sammy~ Nobody signs up for the hard version. You want the opportunity that shows up looking like a gift — easy, obvious, exciting. Instead it shows up looking like a delay,…

“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 opposite of addiction is not sobriety. The opposite of addiction is connection.”~ Johann Hari ~ We breathed. We opened our eyes to change. We made a commitment. Now here’s the part nobody tells you. All of that inner work — it doesn’t mean anything if we’re still doing it alone. The phone in your…

“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”Lao Tzu~The river doesn’t set an alarm. Doesn’t check its notifications. Doesn’t wonder if it’s moving fast enough. It just goes. And it gets where it’s going every single time.The Dude is still learning that one too.Take a lesson from the water today.— The Dude 🐸Thought for the…

“Gratitude turns what we have into enough.”~Anonymous~ Before you list what’s missing, list what’s already here. The coffee that was hot. The sun came up. The knees that still bend. Small stuff, easy to skip past on the way to the big complaint. Gratitude isn’t pretending everything’s fine. It’s just refusing to let the little…good…