This is the worst! Worse than that time I finished all the books that had been published so far in a series a full year before the final book came out.
You have the ability to change your life. You’ve always had the power, Dorothy. You just have to stop waiting for someone else to do it for you. There is no easy way out of this; there is no life hack. Just you and your God-given strength and how much you desire change.
Sometimes choosing to walk away, even if it means breaking your own heart, can be the greatest act of self-love you have access to.
You were made to have the dreams you’re afraid of having. You were made to do things that you don’t think you’re qualified for. You were made to be a leader, You were made to contribute. You were made to make changes for good, oth in your local community and the world at large. You were made to be more than you are today and – this is the important part – your version of more might not look like my more, or hers.
Friends, your struggles don’t mean that you’re weak; they mean you’re human. Your inexperience doesn’t mean you won’t succeed; it means you haven’t yet.
You’ve got to plan for your success. You’ve got to be intentional, and you’ve got to decide right now that you can be whoever you want to be and achieve whatever you want to achieve. You’ve got to believe it.
Maturity isn’t something you wrap around you like a coat. Maturity is like the T-shirt you get for walking in a 5K: you can only put it on if you go through the experience first.
We need to start having a very real conversation about why we accept truths about ourselves as women that we would never consider for men.
A lifetime of believing that your value – or lack thereof – is determined by your body or your face or your whatever means that you’ve got a lifetime of negative talk in your head playing on repeat. You need to replace that voice with something positive. You need to replace that voice with the opposite truth – the thing you most need to believe. So come up with a mantra and say it to yourself a thousand times a day until it becomes real.
But sister, please, please, please stop allowing your fear of getting it wrong to color every beautiful thing you’re doing right.
So I made a decision. I will do my best, and I will trust that my best is exactly what God intended for these babies.
When it comes to your dreams, no is not an answer.
Work just as hard for fun moments, vacation moments, and pee-your-pants-laughing moments as you do for all the other things. I encourage you to take a walk, call a friend, have a glass of wine, enjoy a bubble bath, or take a long lunch. All of that work will be there when you get back, and a little time away can recharge your batteries and give you the energy to battle that ever-growing to-do list.
Mom, you should parent in whatever way works for your family and spend less time worrying about other people’s perceptions of how you’re doing.
Inside my head is a tumble of incoherent screams that sound an awful lot like someone speaking in tongues. Apparently my inner voice is Pentecostal.
There are hundreds of ways to lose yourself, but the easiest of them all is refusing to acknowledge who you truly are in the first place.
I am one of the happiest gals you know because I choose it every single day. I choose to practice gratitude; I choose to surround myself with things and people who support positivity.
The freedom to carve out the time and have a safe place to create that art is a blessing of the highest level in a world where so many people are unable to have either.
Ambition looks like you living in a way others won’t so you will have a life others can’t.
Some days you feel so discouraged you want to cry. Go ahead and cry. Rend your garments and wail to the heavens like some biblical mourner. Get it all out. Then dry your eyes and wash your face and keep on going.