Here and now, you get a fresh start. You have the ability to make a brand new choice that moves you out of where you’ve been and into something new.

The past is gone. Learn from it and don’t spend your energy there. Your opportunity to begin anew is only ever right here, and to receive it, you have to take it.

When you scatter your energy, you don’t get to experience the true power of your undiluted focus and effort.

If you harness your attention and focus only on what is most important, you might begin to understand how limitless you are.

Limit what you say yes to and expand.

A loving reminder that your first reactive thought is just that- your first reactive thought.

A first reactive thought may show up as “I can’t,” “I won’t,” “It’s not possible,” “It’s not okay,” or something else that builds a wall. When you notice yourself putting up walls, it might be a good time to get curious about your other possibilities regarding what thought you choose to focus on. The options are infinite.

A genuine opportunity might not always feel comfortable, and it will feel like a fit for your unique gifts, particular genius, and vision for your life.

Temptation is not to be confused with an opportunity. Just because something might be a good opportunity for someone else doesn’t mean it is for you.

Invest your precious life into your opportunities, not anyone else’s.

You can accomplish much more than you imagine if you are willing to have the correct, uncomfortable conversations.

When you wait to do something uncomfortable, it only becomes more painful. The more willing you are to get to talking, the more creative power you have.

Ideas are wonderful. It even takes a specific skill set to be a prolific idea generator.

However, the key to change through bringing ideas to fruition lies in our practice of being excellent communicators and co-creators.

Ideas are different than listening, coaching, and collaborating. They are all valuable, so we need them all.

When we feel alone because we are in the unknown, the thing that might help us more than “knowing” is being around other folks who have felt alone because they don’t know and now know it’s okay not to know because they are not alone.

We should all seek people who show up with faith in themselves and one another as they discover the path forward. This is who we are designed to be for one another.

Doubt is like a form of amnesia. It is good at discrediting our excellent work and happy memories, robbing us of our learnings, discoveries, and resilience.

When we feel like our connection to our best self has slipped away, our work is to notice that doubt is at play and to wait to make decisions until we have restored ourselves to the truth of who we are.

Doubt will come and go, and it’s not meant to dictate our lives. And, when we notice it, we can tap into faith and patience and the storm.

It’s supposed to be a discovery.

Knowing the answer is not the access to the pathway. Asking useful questions is.

Because on the other side of it, you will be proud of who you were in response to life.

What if today, you put your energy into being proud of yourself and how you engaged with life instead of how you controlled or avoided it? It could be that this is where your true power lives.

We get distracted when we focus on who other people want us to be instead of who we are.

Getting distracted is easy and takes no energy. It can often feel like giving into our distractions is what will make life easier, when really, ease comes from releasing our desire to appease others.

Staying connected to who we are as we move through the world and engage with others is a discipline, and it is a discipline that brings peace.

There is a part of us that tends to lean away from the things that are most important in favor of what our lower personality tricks us into believing will make us happy, when at our core, we know the most important thing is what will fulfill us in the long term.

When you notice instant gratification and lack pulling you away from the truth, release your grip and surrender to what is essential and human to you at the moment. Surrender involves plunging into the unknown and is the most powerful thing we can do.

The antidote to awkwardness is curiosity. The gift of curiosity is connection.

The detection of awkwardness can signify that connection is a couple of open-hearted questions away.

This beautiful, impermanent human experience is akin to an all-levels yoga or group class.

People are showing up with their strengths, areas for growth, preferences, habits, concerns, and relationships with others and the world around them. Of course, everyone’s experience could be different, and each individual’s response or reaction will differ based on the previously listed variables.

Our job as both an observer and a participant is to learn to grow by expanding our ability to hold space, which is another way of saying our ability to love unconditionally. The way to freedom is not through getting everyone to do the same thing or have the same experience because that’s impossible. The way to freedom is providing a loving, judgment-free space for people to learn and grow, including yourself.

Trusting myself allows me to relax, and it also increases my probability of success.

So in the places I feel stressed, I choose to know I am going to get there so I can enjoy the process of figuring it out.

Where might you choose to have faith in yourself so you can savor your precious life and make it fun?

The boundaries you place and the examples you set are the most essential ways you support your relationships and the people you are in them with.

It’s about what you stand for, not what the other person should or shouldn’t.

We guarantee we will suffer when we make life about what we can control.

When we make life about what we can contribute regardless of circumstances, we guarantee our lives will be fulfilling.

The latter requires more discipline because we must practice letting go of what we cannot be responsible for and also practice being fully accountable for what we can. However, it is discipline that brings freedom.

You might be feeling frustrated because you aren’t expressing your gifts.

It’s not actually about what other people do or don’t do. You will feel more and more wholeness in your life when you take full responsibility for sharing your unique talents and loving contribution as your number one priority.

When you find yourself frustrated or heavy, find freedom by taking your focus off needing others to change. To lighten yourself and maybe others up, get to work by providing what you are meant to provide.

What if you are actually the creator of all of the things you were taught to believe there aren’t enough of?

What if you didn’t need to fight to acquire love, time, or money? What might you allow yourself expand into if you could create as much as you needed, whenever you needed?

The next question is, are you willing for that to be possible? It is only in our willingness for a new and more beautiful truth to be possible that it can have the chance to emerge.