#35 Days of Dares #20 Dare to Be Real Sometimes I feel like I don’t fit. I feel uncomfortable in my own skin. Why can’t I be like that writer? Why can’t I look like her? I wish I could think like him. I’m learning to that to just be myself, to be real, is enough. […]
#35 Days of Dares #19 Dare to Get Past Rejection or Criticism You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance. (Ray Bradbury) We’ve all experienced rejection and criticism. No one likes it. At all. That feeling of your inner self being ripped apart and exposed in all its pain is excruciating. […]
#35 Days of Dares #18 Dare to Be Brave Being brave is not about never feeling scared. I don’t know how many times my body has frozen rigid in fear and yet stepped out to do something brave. I like this quote by Nelson Mandela: I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, […]
#35 Days of Dares #17 Dare to Love Love is meant to be an adventure. Gordon B. Hinckley. It’s Valentines Day—the day most single people hate and a day many couples feel awkward or obligated to buy chocolates or flowers. Some people are in love with being in love and will go all out […]
Dance. Smile. Giggle. Marvel. TRUST. HOPE. LOVE. WISH. BELIEVE. Most of all, enjoy every moment of the journey, and appreciate where you are at this moment instead of always focusing on how far you have to go. Mandy Hale Today at the gym a young girl was working out next to me on the […]
The wound is the place where the light enters you. Rumi Life is full of pain, joy, anger—the whole gamut of emotions. Allowing ourselves to be vulnerable enough to process our emotions, express them, allow them and allow others to express them, can be a healing process. Too often we feel we need to […]
#35 Days of Dares #13 Dare to Be Ageless ‘I worry about my age.’ Worry is self-attack. In truth, no one will hold your age against you if you don’t. Remember, you are never too old, to love, to smile, to give a compliment, to think positively. Be ageless. Eckhart Tolle There’s no denying […]
#35 Days of Dares #12 Dare to Start Over So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don’t sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we’ve satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late. Lee Iacocca As I finished writing my […]
#35 Days of Dares #11 Dare to Live —Today She threw back her blankets and thought only of today. Kristen Cashore January is a month of planning and reflection in our house. We buy a wall calendar and plot out travel and other significant events that we know of. We reflect on the past […]
