I am not the same person I was yesterday as I am today. Tomorrow I will be different than I am today. The change I experience may not be noticeable to me or others, but it is happening. Each time I meet a new person, I am changed. Each time I learn something new, I am changed. Each experience I have changes me. Don’t fear change. It is your friend.
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A Better Life ~ You Are Ready
Don’t fear tomorrow. Today is preparing you for it. Whatever tomorrow brings, you will be prepared for it. Cast worry aside, prepare the best you can and face tomorrow with a smile. You got this one!
🖋 Writers’ Wisdom: No More Writer’s Block
“My best advice about writer’s block is: the reason you’re having a hard time writing is because of a conflict between the GOAL of writing well and the FEAR of writing badly. By default, our instinct is to conquer the fear, but our feelings are much, much, less within our control than the goals we set, and since it’s the conflict BETWEEN the two forces blocking you, if you simply change your goal from “writing well” to “writing badly,” you will be a veritable fucking fountain of material. . . .” Dan Harmon
Today’s Reflection: The Most Powerful Medicine
“Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.”- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Stress Hack: #4 of 4 Tips to Reduce Stress
Face Your Fear Regularly
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If your fear is something like being eaten by a shark or run over by a speeding car, this may sound unreasonable. Don’t jump into your local aquarium’s shark tank or in front of a speeding car. What I mean by “facing” your fear is to look at images or fear-inducing representations of what scares you as often as you can. Pin an image of your fear on your vision board. Again, this may seem counterintuitive since the purpose of a vision board is to see the things you want for yourself in your future, and you probably don’t want your greatest fear to be part of it. But that’s exactly why you should have a visual representation of any fear that’s inhibiting you on your vision board. By looking at that visual representation of your fear often, you will see and feel it gradually lose its potency. That’s the powerful concept of habituation at work. So stare at the space it holds on your vision board often until the only feeling it elicits is boredom. Once you see it can’t scare you, take it down. Then start looking at the reminders you actually want on that vision board that make you happy. And now that you’re not scared anymore, go get that life.
Stress Hack: Decide What’s Really Happening
Fear about one thing in your life can spill over into other parts of your life. Try to decide whether your fears have anything to do with the experience at hand.
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Cares ~ Elisabeth Barrett Browning
The little cares that fretted me,
I lost them yesterday
Among the fields above the sea,
Among the winds at play;
Among the lowing of the herds,
The rustling of the trees,
Among the singing of the birds,
The humming of the bees.
The foolish fears of what may happen,
I cast them all away
Among the clover-scented grass,
Among the new-mown hay;
Among the husking of the corn
Where drowsy poppies nod,
Where ill thoughts die and good are born
Out in the fields with God.
Elisabeth Barrett Browning
Today’s Reflection ~ Courage
“There are Lots of Lonely People Afraid to Make the 1st Move” ~ Tony Vallelonga (Movie Green Book)
