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From Still Waters to Uncharted Depths: Choosing Your Environment for Growth
Life offers us a choice of environments, each reflecting where we are in our journey and how willing we are to embrace change. Whether we remain in the safety of a small, contained space or venture into vast, unpredictable territory, the environment we choose shapes...
God Wants You to Walk, and the Devil Sends You a Limo
Life often feels like a balancing act between doing what we know is right and giving in to what feels good in the moment. The quote, "God wants you to walk, and the devil sends you a limo," perfectly illustrates this tension. It’s a reminder that the path to growth...
Embracing the Adventure: The Power of Acceptance and Growth Through Connection
People often try to change others because it challenges their expectations or disrupts their sense of control. When things don’t unfold as anticipated, it can feel unsettling—sometimes even threatening—to their worldview. It’s not just resistance to the unexpected;...
When People Leave us
“When someone leaves, it’s because someone else is about to arrive.”— Paulo Coelho, The Zahir Life is a tapestry, woven together by experience, effort, and the sheer courage to live. But we don’t weave it alone. Others bring their own threads—each a different color,...
Knowing your Why: Discovering your Purpose in life
“Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.”— Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept Life doesn’t come with an instruction manual. No map. No compass. No signpost pointing the way. As much as...
Fear of Failure
“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” — Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist Fear of failure is so powerful that it has been studied extensively and even given an official name: Atychiphobia. Yet, despite all research, one...
Embrace challenge
“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”— Thomas A. Edison Nothing ventured, nothing gained. That’s the unshakable philosophy of every baby, toddler, and child. They master the basics of life through an...
Focus On Each Moment
“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” — Robert Louis Stevenson We can’t rewrite the past, but we can shape the future—by taking control of the present. The only moment we truly have power over is now. Dwelling on the past...