Why is it so hard for us to change what we believe? 🤔 Because beliefs provide us with so many things! 🙌 They provide us certainty to an uncertain world. They provide us connections to people who share the same beliefs. And they provide us a sense of identity, helping…

Throughout our lives we’re going to be told who we are: 📍 How we NEED to act 📍 What we HAVE to do 📍 How we MUST live our lives It will come from many sources. Our parents. Our teachers. Our friends. Pretty much anything we’re continuously surrounded by! 🔄 …

🙌 𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐓 𝐈𝐍 𝐏𝐄𝐀𝐂𝐄 𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐌𝐀 🙌 You lived a beautiful 90 years. ❤️ You taught me care. When I stayed over at your house as a child, I would always ask you to scratch my back before going to sleep. Something I’d even ask my arms and legs be scratched…

🙌 𝐀 𝐋𝐈𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐒𝐄, 𝐀 𝐁𝐔𝐓𝐓-𝐊𝐈𝐂𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆, 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐀 𝐃𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍! 🙌 Two weeks ago, I walked out of the Test Center a winner! 🏆 With the sun shining down and a big smile on my face I got into my car, shut the door…and screamed! 🗣️ “𝒀𝑬𝑬𝑬𝑬𝑬𝑬𝑬𝑺! 𝒀𝑬𝑬𝑬𝑬𝑬𝑬𝑬𝑬𝑬𝑬𝑬𝑬𝑬𝑬𝑬𝑺! 𝒀𝑬𝑬𝑬𝑬𝑬𝑬𝑬𝑬𝑬𝑬𝑬𝑬𝑬𝑬𝑬𝑬𝑬𝑬𝑬𝑬𝑬𝑬𝑬𝑬𝑬𝑬𝑬𝑬𝑬𝑺!” I clutched the…

Before social media, when we wanted to share an opinion, we’d have to send it into the newspaper and hope they’d publish it. 🙏 Before social media, if we wanted to share an opinion with someone we disagreed with, we’d have to write it down, place it in an envelope…

It’s what the philosopher Alan Watts referred to as the Backwards Law ⬇️: 🌟 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐧 𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧, 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐱𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐰𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐢𝐭. 🌟 Take the example of a person who falls into a lake and scrambles to reach the water’s…

There’s a saying I used to hear as a kid: “𝘚𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘬𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘺 𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘬 𝘮𝘺 𝘣𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘴, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘩𝘶𝘳𝘵 𝘮𝘦.” 🙌 It’s a saying I still remind myself of today. 🙂 But there seems to be a HUGE misunderstanding these days about this saying. ⚠️ People respond…

I am not perfect. Nobody is perfect. 🙌 I make mistakes. Everybody makes mistakes. 🙌 I am human. We are all human. 🙌 To clarify, this is not to say I’m here to make excuses for anyone’s bad behavior. It’s simply to acknowledge the fallibility within all of us, including…

🌟 𝐎𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐯𝐞. 🌟 Did you ever do something you were once afraid to do, but after you did it you wondered why you were so scared about it the first place?! 😅 I’m guilty as charged! 🙋♂️ It’s how I felt the last time…