Posts tagged with “wisdom”
Why I’m No Longer Hiding Behind My Privilege and My Spirituality
âHow wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.â ~Anne Frank
Weâre all just spiritual beings, bumbling along in human bodies, trying to make our way.
Trying to find the delicate balance between living in a physical world and embracing our higher selves.
In my quest for spiritual enlightenment, I learned how to narrow my focus. I learned to tune out the noisy Facebook newsfeed, I donât watch the news, and I avoid saying things just for the sake of controversy.
For a while, this worked. As my vibe rose, I started …
How I Healed My FOMO and Started Saying No
“When you say ‘yes’ to others, make sure you are not saying ‘no’ to yourself.” ~Paulo Coelho
My sister-in-law returned to Montreal after spending three months in Portugal. She told me that the biggest adjustment to being back was spending twenty minutes in the pharmacy aisle deciding which shampoo brand to get because the options were endless. She missed life in Portugal, where she only had one brand to choose from.
Ah, the paradox of choice.
I am a recovering indecisive person. I used to stand in line at restaurant counters, telling people to go ahead of me with their …
We Can’t Run from Ourselves and 6 Other Lessons from Living Abroad
âMaybe the journey isnât so much about becoming anything. Maybe itâs about un-becoming everything that isnât really you⊠so you can be who you were meant to be in the first place.â ~Unknown
From the outside looking in, my life was picture-perfect. I had a corporate job that paid more than just the bills, a charming little apartment in a boho neighborhood of Denver, a gorgeous SUV that took me on adventures in the mountains on the weekends, a vibrant dating life where I met some pretty amazing guys, and a group of incredible girlfriends that most people only dreamt …
Why People-Pleasers Donât Get the Love and Respect They Desire
âNiceness is the psychological armor of the people-pleaser.â ~Harriet B. Braiker
I used to think that being kind, gentle, and agreeable was guaranteed to win me love and acceptance from others. Iâd tiptoe around destructive peopleâs behaviors, no matter how uncomfortable I felt about it, believing to my core that if only I could be nice enough to them, they would one day lead a better life.
I lived my life constantly avoiding anything that might make me look like a bad, imperfect, antagonistic, or unlikeable person. Because as every people-pleaser knows, being disliked or disapproved of feels …
Why We Need to Stop Chasing Success and Start Enjoying the Little Things in Life
The philosopher Alan Watts always said that life is like a song, and the sole purpose of the song is to dance.
He said that when we listen to a song, we donât dance with the goal of getting to the end of the music. We dance to enjoy it.
This isnât always how we live our lives. Instead, we rush through our moments, thinking thereâs always something better, thereâs always some goal we need to achieve. This is my journey through a song without the dance and the lessons Iâve learned, from Alan Watts, along the way.
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Facing the Fear of Change: Big Risks Can Bring Big Rewards
âChange will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.â ~Barack Obama
If someone said to you, âHey, you know how you are feeling the need for change and youâre not sure what to do? Well, I canât tell you what to do, but I can guarantee that if you follow where your heart leads you, youâll create the possibility of more joy than youâve ever felt before. All you have to do is walk through …
How I Turned Fear and Anxiety into Joy and Fulfillment
âThe largest part of what we call âpersonalityâ is determined by how weâve opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness.â ~Alain de Botton
I know fear and anxiety. Weâre old friends. When I was fifteen, and school was over, Iâd have to force one foot in front of the other. It was time to go home. I always kept going, and with every step Iâd psych myself up.
You see, once Iâd gotten home, fixed my dinner, and finished my homework, my mother would come home. It was then that we would begin the nightly ritual of me talking …
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