There’s a quiet frustration that comes with standing in front of closed doors. You knock. You wait. You wonder what you’re missing. You replay conversations in your head and second-guess choices you made years ago. You tell yourself that if this one door would just open, everything would finally make sense. But what if theContinue reading “The Door That Knows Your Name”
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The Second Letting Go
There is a quiet kind of exhaustion that comes from replaying things you cannot change. Conversations that already ended. Decisions already made. Outcomes already set in motion. Your hands are empty, but your mind keeps gripping anyway. We tell ourselves we are being responsible. That if we think about it long enough, worry hard enough,Continue reading “The Second Letting Go”
Your Move
There’s a quiet kind of power in stepping back. Not storming out. Not arguing. Not trying to correct, coach, convince, or control. Just stepping back. One of the hardest lessons I’ve had to learn in leadership, in friendships, even in family is this: you cannot force alignment. You cannot manufacture maturity. You cannot edit someoneContinue reading “Your Move”
Don’t Chase the Snake
Came across this quote sometime back and it has stayed with me long after I first heard it. Imagine being bitten by a snake, and instead of focusing on healing from the poison, you chase the snake. You want to know why it bit you. You want to prove that you didn’t deserve it. YouContinue reading “Don’t Chase the Snake”
Make Your Mind a Home You Actually Want to Live In
You live most of your life inside your head. Not in your house. Not in your car. Not in your office. Not even in your phone. Inside your head. That’s where the real “you” spends most of the time—thinking, replaying, planning, worrying, judging, hoping, regretting, imagining, comparing, daydreaming… all of it. And honestly, when youContinue reading “Make Your Mind a Home You Actually Want to Live In”
No Finish Line, Just the Feeling
Somewhere along the way, life started feeling like a race we never signed up for. Not a fun one either. No cheering crowds, no clear track, no finish ribbon waiting at the end. Just an invisible clock ticking louder every year, urging us to move faster, do more, be more. We sprint through mornings, power-walkContinue reading “No Finish Line, Just the Feeling”
Borrowed Time, Borrowed Worry
Anxiety has a funny way of convincing us that the future is already happening. Not next week. Not next year. Right now. It pulls tomorrow into today and asks us to carry it all at once—the conversations that haven’t happened, the mistakes that haven’t been made, the outcomes that haven’t arrived. And then we wonderContinue reading “Borrowed Time, Borrowed Worry”
Still Standing, Even When It Drizzles
There’s a quiet confidence that comes from having lived through enough hard seasons. Not the loud, chest-thumping kind. The kind that settles into your bones. The kind that changes how you react when life throws something small but annoying your way. Because when you’ve survived real storms, raindrops don’t get the same reaction anymore. StormsContinue reading “Still Standing, Even When It Drizzles”
When Everything Finally Stops Making Sense
It took me a long time to understand this, and honestly, I learned it the hard way. Before Covid, I used to treat every task like it was life-or-death. Every project felt urgent. Every meeting felt critical. Every message felt like it needed an immediate response. I thought being busy meant being valuable, and beingContinue reading “When Everything Finally Stops Making Sense”
THE MIRACLE YOU’RE STANDING ON
Look around for a second. Not with the tired, half-awake glance you give the world on a Monday morning, but with the eyes you had as a kid—the ones that thought everything was magic because, honestly, it kind of is. We live on a planet that shouldn’t make sense. There’s fire boiling at its core,Continue reading “THE MIRACLE YOU’RE STANDING ON”
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