Is understanding how many times you will need to recommit.

The reason we need to commit to things is because they are things we don’t often feel like doing and are easy to stray from. They are things that bring up our resistances and move us to the edge of what we already know. They are things that are easy to rationalize our way out of in favor of old patterns. They as us to be bigger than we already are, which is inevitably confronting.

As you resolve to move towards what’s important to you, what you are truly giving your word to to is becoming someone who recommits.

If it were easy, or we always wanted to do it, we wouldn’t need commitment.

There is no such thing as the past and the future. There is the known and the unkown; the experienced and the unexperienced.

You don’t have to wait until the future to grow. This moment itself is unfolding as a completely new phenomenon. This is the unknown where you get to create. The only thing that can block you is believing you’ve already experienced this; which you haven’t.

Your fears and resistances are always showing you what it is time to be complete with.

To keep going and growing, you have to be light enough to move forward. Each resistance and fear that you notice is trying to pull you back into the past, yet you have the power to let go of them so they cannot drag you toward the old and comfortable.

The body sensations you feel when these forces try to stop you are your somatic intelligence, communicating that it is time to have the courage to let go and move into something new. As you notice the feelings of your body alert you to what’s limiting you, thank them and let them help you have the boldness to let those old doubts go.

Being complete is a state you can live in, and it takes presence and the willingness to be in a perpetual practice of letting go. You are not meant to hold on; you are meant to flow.

We know from Isaac Newton that every power has an equal or opposite force. As you become more expressed in your mission and purpose, you will notice more opposition from others, and potentially even yourself due to doubt and other forms of self-sabotage.

These things are not a sign to stop. They are a sign you are expanding.

As you plan for the year ahead, include how you will respond to adversity when it arises, as it helps you grow even more if you handle it well.

Imagine Joy is a person you can spend time with. What would she say? How would you feel afterward? Imagine Peace is a friend you can call on to visit you and comfort you. Consider Grace is waiting for you to give her a call and invite her over for a good talk.

If you yearn for a sense of wholeness that comes with a spiritual practice yet don’t know where to start, try imagining these experiences as people you can spend time with and gain counsel from. They all have wisdom to share and love to give and are waiting for you to invite them in.

Whatever you give attention to gives you attention back, creating a pattern that can feel hard to break.

Give yourself grace as you practice focusing on what you want to receive. You have the power to create a new pathway for yourself and therfore others if you are willing to feel the intensity of letting go.

Whatever your gift is, use self-love to activate it.

If you have a desire to contribute at your highest and let what is great in you out into the world, you need to love yourself one hundred percent.

The way we know if our gifts are activated is if we feel joy coming back to us as a result of giving them. This loop can only be complete when we love ourselves.

Your gifts are not anything you need to earn. They just need the right environment to thrive.

How do you love yourself? Just like anything, you choose to practice until it becomes easy.

Both the first and last step are gratitude.

We can only be open to receive our blessings if we are grateful for them. Gratitude opens us up to receive, and also seals in the gift.

Whether it’s a day of your life, and unexpected transition, on time, try book-ending it with gratitude and see what shifts.

Is to not need to want to do the right thing.

It is totally possible and absolutely essential to be able to do your personal best even when your mind doesn’t want to. Integrity lives in action, and you have the power to choose correct action, no matter what you’re thinking mind has to say about the matter.

The way to become your future self that you are proud of, which is the ultimate reward, is to let your personal integrity lead you.

The best way to prepare for change is to remember that it is change, which means it will be different, which means it will be new.

If you find yourself carrying fears from your past into your future, remember that the best thing you can do is let go of any pain and allow peace to enter the space that fear was taking up. This is the only way you will see things clearly and be able to create as your wisest self.

What’s coming is not what was, especially if you come with fresh eyes.

As you grow, people will try to blame you for things that you did imperfectly that you couldn’t have done perfectly because you hadn’t learned through experience yet.

Don’t let their lack of compassion keep you feom being compassionate with yourself. Have compassion for them as well, as they are still learning. The blamer is the one left with the feeling of blame. The compassionate one is left with compassion.

The only way to grow is to keep expanding your ability to remain connected to your best self, which you can only do through experience.

Productivity isn’t getting through your to-do list. It’s how much value you provide.

Not only can you get through everything on your to-do list (and then some) and not provide very much value, but you can actually detract value from people and things by rushing and adding more clutter.

Instead of asking, what can I get done, ask what can I do that would provide the most value?

Success is a result of patience, dedication, commitment, and endurance.

To endure means we don’t give up. It also means we don’t need to force or push ourselves beyond what we are capable of today as we look toward what we will be capable of tomorrow. Endurance comprises the rigor of focus and the ease of inner peace. It comes from remembering we have something magnificent to accomplish while also recalling we are already whole and perfect.

Stop giving up. Stop rushing. Choose endurance and success is inevitable because it is also part of the journey.

One of the trapdoors to mediocrity is criticizing other people.

If we want to bring our energy down, we should criticize others. If we want to elevate our vitality and keep our momentum and clarity, we should take all of the energy we expend on seeing how other people could be better and refocus it on making ourselves better.

Avoid the trapdoor of thinking the answer is in fixing someone else. Elevate your life by taking responsibility for your growth only.

Let the way you want to feel long-term lead you, not your short-term urges.

Intuition is different than temptation. Trusting your gut is different than being pulled around by your whims and lower desires.

Don’t live your life based on your fleeitng reactions, choose from your big-picture commitments.

Instead of sitting there, thinking about the thing that you want to do at some point in the future, do something small now. Then, if you still have more time, do another small thing. Then another small thing. Then another small thing. Do as many small things as you can, and eventually the small things become bigger things .

If you want to get it done faster, do it now. This may seem obvious, yet sometimes the most obvious things take the most discipline.

What could you do right now that would help you achieve your goals faster?

We’ve learned to tolerate the wrong kind of discomfort, and to run away from the correct kind.

We’ve learned to tolerate the type of discomfort that comes from knowing we aren’t fulfilling on our purpose or being our best. Some of us live our whole lives so far from ease, yet choosing to stay in it, because it’s familiar.

The good news about seeing this is we are already great at tolerating discomfort, just not the right kind. All we need to do is transfer that skill over to useful discomfort.

Useful discomfort is made up of the sensations and thoughts that come with moving through things that feel intense or new, in the name of growing into our potential. We often avoid these because they are unfamiliar, yet they eventually become familiar; eventually even a sign that reward is on the way. In the context of incorrect discomfort, familiarity is the reward, which stagnates us and others. In the context of correct discomfort, thriving is the reward, which is what we are meant to experience.

Since you are already great at tolerating discomfort, why not make the shift to the useful kind?

In order for something to be better, you have to first allow it to be new.

If you find yourself frustrated because you are trying to fit the present moment into a past picture of success, it is likely time to try out a new way.

The past may have been good, yet there are so many new ways of doing things that you haven’t discovered yet.

What if you gave yourself permission to think outisde of your old box?

One of your superpowers is to imagine that something is possible, which is what makes it possible.

Imagination is the practice of tuning into the frequency of possibility, which is always there, just like the frequency of a radio station. The frequency is real, although we cannot see it with our human eyes.

One potential context for the possibilities we imagine that can help us take more assertive action is that they are real; we only need to be creative about how we access them. What if it wasn’t only that it could happen? What if it is already happening at some level?

What could happen today if you focused on creating what is possible, not what is probable, by trusting it exists?