Trust yourself. Trust others. You are not alone.
Being a storyteller means sharing the personal challenges and joys life presents to me daily. What I learned in my journey is that the things I thought only I felt, others also felt. I was not alone. You are not alone.
Choose joy
The world is full of remarkable people who don’t give up and don’t give in, who look for the silver lining in a sky of black thunderclouds, who get up each day and say “Today is going to be better,” even if yesterday was horrible.
Normal is for washing machines
Normal is a setting on a washing machine. Agitation, upheaval, spinning, turning, swirling — it’s all part of the “normal” cycle of life.
See what is and make a choice for better
I’ve always said my superpower rests in taking the complicated and making it understandable, finding the sliver of extraordinary and elevating it above the noisy clutter. I think every good storyteller needs that perception, that discernment to “grasp what is obscure” and “see what is not evident.”
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Not what I expected
And, so it is with the people in our lives. We learn to expect what we expect without ever imagining that it might be different — that life might be different. Start looking at life differently. You might just find it's not what you expected; it's better.
What is living life to the fullest?
Maybe until this moment, I really haven't believed I was living my life to the fullest. Certainly, I was living my life at a dead run...too tired to care if it was "fullest" as long as it was "full." Still, there have to be some shared experiences we can all agree define fullness.
Just a bit farther down the road
How often do we do that? Stop too soon. Fail to take one more step. Fail to do the one last thing that will put us where we need to be. Fail to plot our course. We misinterpret signs and take the advice of friends who aren't where we are and aren't who we are, and we miss the place where we're supposed to be.
Live out loud
Lately, I've realized that, in many ways, I've become a bystander of my life, present, but not taking part. I've become a spectator of my own game of life. I've let life dictate to me, and I've just gone along for the ride.
Take it one step at a time
I simply changed my mental perspective on the task. I stopped looking at it as a whole, and started looking at it one step at a time. From the perspective of my feet, this stretch of road was no different than all the steps I had taken to get to this point. Just put one foot in front of another. And then, do it again.