Quit when you know you are complete.

When you are tired, rest. Resting is different than quitting. Once you have rested, choose to quit, stay, or do something else. Please don’t quit only because you are tired.

Rest restores you to your best self, and your best self always knows when you are complete.

Authentic goals help move us all forward, and attachments to outcomes fulfill our self-centered agendas.

To live spiritually rich lives, we must be willing to take an upgrade by trading in our forcing for curiosity. “Getting” someone to do something feels less successful to our souls than collaborating with them to create something unique that inspires and uplifts everyone involved.

The present moment is where your power is- always. There is no future moment to make it to or outcome that will earn your wholeness. So let your goals be catalysts for more incredible things than your mind can imagine.

Is to listen to yourself. Creating space to listen to yourself and your wisdom is just as important (I’ll offer more critical) than anything else you make time for.

Especially if you have been avoiding listening because you don’t think there is anything to hear or because you don’t think you will like what you hear, this practice is essential. The more you listen, the more you will be able to hear, and the more you hear, the more you will be able to trust yourself.

To begin listening to yourself or to take listening to yourself to a deeper level, take a scan for what you have been listening to instead of yourself. This could be social media, the news, your friends’ gossip, the voice of doubt in your mind, your mom, Netflix, video games, email, work, or a multitude of other things.

One by one, begin to eliminate the excess and use that time to listen to you. The more you listen, the more you will want to hear. So, start the process and see what opens up. I bet you’ve got some good stuff to share.

Doing more creates more to do, and you will never have enough time to do all of the things you don’t need to do. So what about a little rest and connection instead?

You’re constantly told to be more, have more, and do more. So my question for you today is, are the “mores” you are going for making you happier or are they making you less happy?

If something keeps you in a game you don’t want to play, remember that you have a choice. It might feel like a courageous choice, and you have one.

Is it time to say “no more” so you can have the peace, love, or joy you have sought?

Almost anything is possible, yet you cannot manage another person’s experience; that is not possible.

You can create an environment with optimal conditions for success and can do your best. However, the rest is out of your control. So please take your focus off how they might react, and put it towards your full personal responsibility.

It might feel tempting to hold back out of fear of what someone else might think because when you withhold your true self, you get to stay safe and small. However, the cost of this “safety” is thriving relationships with yourself and your creator, two of your birthrights.

Your job is to do your best and fulfill your highest dream for your life. Their job is to do the same for them. You can’t do anyone else’s work but your own.

Stop being imprisoned by the impossible and start finding freedom in your responsibility.

Regret wants you to look to the past instead of to right now. That’s how it keeps you small.

It’s not who you’ve been that matters the most. It’s who you decide to be right now, and nothing can take that away from you. So now is the most crucial moment because it has all led here.

Self-care is more than just resting so you can accomplish your to-do list with more effectiveness.

Real self-care is keeping the fire inside of your soul roaring. This means it’s your job not just to rest, but to do the things that bring you joy, create the space to do the work that you are deeply passionate about, and stop settling for a spirituality mediocre life. It is so, so easy to let busy-ness get in the way of our spark, and for us to even intentionally or unintentionally make it harder for other people to focus on their aliveness.

Tending to our fires takes discipline and energy, and we need the fire to fuel the relationships and contributions that are important to us. Focus on the fire and let non-essential burn away.

Boundaries are not only to keep people or things “out.” They are also there to help us keep the important things close.

Staying clear is a lot easier when you know what is most important to you right now. Start there, and you will know what to say no to.

One of the reasons that we fail, or that we don’t succeed in our habits are goals is we try to do them because we think they are a “good” thing to do or things we “should” do. Things that don’t resonate with us don’t tend to have the results we yearn for.

The first big step to success is feeling what you want, not copying what you have seen someone else do. From a foundation of your own inner resonance, begin to explore what habits, rituals, and goals you would like to create. This is a lifelong practice that will take awareness and energy, and what better outcome is their than creating a life that feels authentic?

You are capable of anything. Maybe you just need to sense in to what you want to feel.

Relationships don’t always work well or and well just because you’re “nice.”

Relationships can feel whole or complete for you when you remember that you are whole and complete. This allows you to be loving, kind, and clear with yourself and the other person, which is way better than being nice.

Instead of asking yourself how you move forward, practice being here in the present moment.

If you are here, you have moved forward. There isn’t anywhere else to get. The choice you need to make will always be right here, right now. Again, and again, and again.

Moving forward is a series of nows.

After you take the first small step, make sure you take the second one.

Stay present. The steps will reveal themselves if you keep taking the one right here.

The change might be as big of a deal as you think. It just may seem that way because it’s new.

If you were to make the change “easy” and begin with the first step now, what would the step be? Don’t let the overwhelm of the whole stop you. Instead, let the simplicity of this first step free you. Don’t let the fear of the unknown keep you stuck. Instead, allow the wisdom within your heart to help you grow.

If there is something you know you need to do and don’t want to do, know there will always be convincing reasons why you shouldn’t do it.

Please don’t wait for your reasons not to do it to go away before you do it. The way to freedom and power is not to be stopped by your reasons.

Be unreasonable when it comes to taking responsibility for your life.

In my partnership with the universe, my job is to wait expectantly.

However, my job is to wait by putting in the work. Just sitting around and hoping is not waiting. Demonstrating my faith through action is waiting.

Dust doesn’t tend to go away if we just let it sit there. More piles up. More time, more dust.

The way we create clarity within ourselves and within relationships is to address the thing that needs addressing. For example, if we feel remorseful, apologizing is what creates clarity. If we feel we need something and aren’t getting it, making a request creates clarity. If we love someone or want them to know how grateful we are, telling them creates clarity.

What is it time to address today so you can have a new possibility for the future?

I used to believe that keeping up a facade was how I could protect myself from judgment, therefore keeping me happy. I know now that "protecting" myself from what others might think made me unhappy.

Disconnecting from myself to feel “connected” to others felt safer, yet it was detrimental. So now, my practice is staying true to myself while knowing for sure that others will judge me. My protection from judgment is not in avoiding it; it’s in my connection to myself.

People judge us all the time anyway. It may as well be for being the best version of us rather than a shell of ourselves.

Every night before I put my 3-year-old and 4-year-old to bed, I tell them, “You are perfect exactly as you are, and you can do anything you want because you are limitless, and you are perfect as you are.”

We are also inherently perfect as we are- the real us, underneath all our habits, heartbreaks, disappointments, coping mechanisms, beliefs, preferences, and opinions. As human beings, inheriting or developing all these quirks which form our personality is inevitable, which is part of what makes being alive such an enlivening and educational experience.

Since we are both perfect as we are and imperfect at the same time, our job is to learn to stay connected to our perfection, which is love, and compassionately and kindly observe what drives us to do what we do. Through loving observation, we gain our ability to choose, releasing what no longer serves us and trying new things on. This non-judgmental self-exploration can allow us to notice how we feel when we make shifts and changes, allowing us create lives we enjoy and make a difference for others. If we can take this on as a life-long practice with no end goal, destination, or “fix-it” attached, our life can become an adventure versus something to get right.

Getting other people to like you, agree with you, or understand you are not essential to moving toward your dreams.

There will be times when you will need to choose to only go with yourself and no one else. These moments may feel like the most complicated moments to navigate, but your clarity gives you the freedom you have been seeking, not anybody else's. You don't have anything to prove to anyone else, only an agreement with your spirit to fulfill.

Don't let other people's stuff keep you from living your life. Their feelings are not your most important priority; your purpose is. Do the thing.

To respond is to choose. To react is to have something else choose for you.

I have never met anyone who claims they want to feel frustrated, agitated, angry, doubtful, mean, or rude. This is how I know all these experiences arise when we are in a reaction to life, rather than in response to it.

You were given the gift by your creator to choose how you respond to life. This is the superpower that makes you a human being. No matter what happens or what has happened, you have the choice now to take a few deep breaths and respond in a way that makes you proud and feel the way you want to feel about yourself.