kindess

Don’t give up. Don’t quit. Giving up is easy. When we give up, our minds go into defensive mode and begin generating excuses for our decision to give up. Before you know it, we’ve convinced ourselves that giving up is the best decision any human being could make. Conversely, hanging in, enduring, working at our challenge is often painfully slow. Yet, there comes a time when the foundation we were building by staying with it pays off. We look back and see the great distance we covered a step at a time. If it is worth it, it is worth not giving up and patiently enduring.

Both today and YOU are unique, only to appear on earth once. Don’t waste either one. Treat both today and yourself with love, respect, and dignity. Make the best of both. 

It is difficult to work for constructive change. It’s easier to get angry and lash out and attack. Working for constructive change asks us to engage with those who may view the world differently from us. Working constructively asks us to seek discover new ways of thinking about problems and daring to find solutions that may not have been previously discovered.

Most people are going to think what they want to think. They are going to believe what they want to believe. There’s not much one can do to convince them of their view of the truth. If, however, they witness your actions, you may inspire them to be better than they ever imagined. Actions matter much more than words.

Which dancing partner are you dancing with today? Is it love? Is it anger? Is it hope? Is it despair? It’s better to sit out the dance if the only dancing partners are going to hold you down. It’s better to dance with partners who lift you up, inspire you, and fire you up for the chase. 

I have a beautiful fig tree in my yard. The birds and I are hoping for a bountiful harvest this summer. The harvest won’t happen if I don’t water my fig tree. The same is true of our dreams. The more we water our dreams the greater the chance our dreams will produce a great harvest for us.

There are many annoyances we encounter each day. How far will we travel today if we stop and get angry at each annoyance? This stuff happens. It happens to everyone. Ignore the annoyances and head on full speed ahead. Don’t look back. 

Whatever your age or condition, what is possible for you? In going after the possibilities we discover and rediscover ourselves. Once we go after possibilities, new possibilities unfold in front of us. The only requirement is for us to let go of what is stopping us from giving all our attention to what is possible for us at the current moment. 

It is easy to express our honest feeling about another. It is difficult to be honest about ourselves with ourselves. We’re a mixture of light and darkness. The darkness within has great power when we deny it exists. When we name and expose our darkness to the light it disappears like the morning dew.