There are lots of people who may have ideas about what I should be doing. Good for them. It’s great to have opinions. Their opinions, however, have nothing to do with me! When someone tells me I’m doing something wrong – or who I am is wrong – I remember the truth. I...
When I mess up, or think I messed up, it’s easy to focus on what I did wrong. But there’s another way. I can turn my attention to all the things that went well in the “disaster.” My strengths, my gifts, my lessons. Then, from this wider, more objective perspective, I...
In a moment of crisis, it can be hard to see any benefits. But many of the “worst” things that happened to me brought new growth and opportunities. When I remember this, even in the middle of challenges, I open myself to a powerful perspective. Bad and good, black...
The minute I start cataloguing someone else’s faults, I’m in tricky territory. The flaws I’m seeing in them are inevitably colored with my own shortcomings. Also? We are all expressions of the Divine, doing our best. If I forget this about someone else, I forget it...
Sometimes I meet someone and know right away that they are my friend. And then there are the other people. Those who sneak up on me. Those I decide I don’t like for some arbitrary reason that turns out to be completely wrong. Today I am willing to admit when I am...
