You have nourishing connections.
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Updated 7 years ago,August 15, 2018
Its easy to count our failures.
Im also good at comparing these failures with others.
God and Man
I think we all are.
In fact, they may all be imagined.
You are doing better than you think you are.
Most of us arent hermits.
Every day is an ebb and flow that touches other lives, bodies, and longings.
Even us introverts engage with humans more or less every day.
Accordingly, these connections have the great power to take us down or lift us up.
You regularly make decisionson your own.
Our days are daisy chains of decisions.
Even the tiniest actions deserve our say and input.
Some of these may be insignificant.
They may feel automatic or undecided.
But they actually arent.
You have equal capacity tonotdo any of these thingsthats how you know theyre decisions!
Naturally, a lot of our daily decisions do relate to others.
I often seek out advice from friends or collaborate on decisions.
Thats fun and invigorating.
Youve brought yourself to a place where you’ve got the option to decide infinite things.
Youve said no recently.
Ive said it once and Ill say it again:you matter!
The power ofnocan be negative, but it can also be wildly positive.
The bestnos are the authenticnosthe ones that reflect your inner desire honestly and truly.
Saying no was forbidden in my household, because a sturdy no was always, always selfish.
Now, I know that no is necessary.
It honors your true feelings and lets you have gracious claim over the world around you.
If youve said a real no lately, youre doing well.
(Big secret: they hardly ever do.
If anything, friends and family members and colleagues always understand).
Youre thinking about your place in life.
I dont know what the hell Im doing with my life.
I hear you, friend.
You may feel as if you are thinking about it way too much, way too often.
Those thoughts are spirals keeping you up at night, and not in a good way.
Im glad that you care, and Im here to celebrate that fact.
You are building awareness.
Awareness is a term easily tossed around, but its a valuable one.
Im all about living life with intuition rather than angst, confusion, and uncertainty.
How do you know if youre building awareness?
Studies are slowly revealing theneurological magicthese practices can enact within and without.
But even if you dont regularly engage in these practices, you may still be cultivating awareness every day.
Youre motivated by joyor love.
We all crave something that drives us.
If that motivator is joy or love, all the better.
You may feel as if joy is rather absent in your life right now.
You may be spending many hours and days hunting it down.
Just think about it: would you rather be motivated by fear or by love?
Some people argue that there is paradoxical value in beingmotivated by fear.
Identify the threads of motivation in your life.
Where are the tangles of love and joy at your back?
Youre reading this.
I dont know you, at least not very well.
I do know that you are a reader (myreader), and for that I am grateful.
I also know that you are likely interested in your own well-being and where you are at in life.
Otherwise, you wouldnt have noticed the title of this article and clicked on it.
Your smile is brighter and your future is sparkling.
Well done, friend.
Keep up the work.
Ill be cheering you on.
