“This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.”
– Susan Polis Schutz
Random notes to myself:
There are many other ways to gage whether I’m heading in the right direction. It’s not all about bubbling happiness, or high energy. Sometimes its about diving into the deep end of myself.
Take time to listen to my heart, to listen to the birds sing, to listen to the wind in the trees.
I don’t have to believe my thoughts.
I turned off the main stream media because it’s the wrong programming.
Always stay rooted somewhere.
The only person I can change is myself. So I’ll focus on that.
Be willing to fail, be willing to make mistakes, be willing to ask for help.
If I were a dog I’d be a golden retriever.
What questions am I afraid to ask?
What am I unwilling to feel?
What have I long denied?
Would I rather be right, or happy?
Is this friendship taking a break, or is it broken?
Here is my empty space. What am I going to fill it with?
Why am I willing to spend big money for two nights on the softest hotel sheets, but I don’t buy the softest sheets for the bed I sleep in every night?
I fill my car with gas, I drive for a long time and then the tank is empty. Am I going to sit there and complain the tank is empty, or am I going to fill the tank again? Self care is refilling my tank so I can keep moving forward.
Setting boundaries shows me where I end and someone else begins.
It’s not selfish to put my needs first. A vote for myself isn’t a vote against anyone else.
No is a complete sentence.
