Motivating Quotes
“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.”
I do find that words help most things.
But this is one example of a time that words don’t help.
If you feel like you’re not good at something, best thing you can do is start doing more of it.
Because it gets easier and easier to say you’re not good at something.
Without really trying.
Anyone ever just want to sit still and listen to the rain? ☔️💧🌧️
Feel paralyzed into inaction because you’re overwhelmed by all you have set out to accomplish? ✔️✔️✔️
Right now perhaps you have camp deadlines and scheduling dilemmas for your kids who are looking for activities to keep them busy this summer. 🛶⛺️
The problem with planning is that it constantly puts you into the future.🔮
And then it’s almost as if you’re wishing time away.⏳
I know we’re not consciously trying to do this.
In fact, I often see people posting a photo caption that says: “Can we please slow down time??”
But we can’t. ✋
Because the busier we are, the faster the time goes.🏃🏻♀️
And this is from someone who loves to be busy so I am guilty. Like, big time.
But, I encourage you to sit down. Do nothing. Listen to the rain. Put your phone in another room. Drink in some quiet. Reflect. Don’t plan.
🛝Remind yourself of your own childhood.
🛝Remember that you were a kid once.
🛝And you rarely lived in the future.
🛝You lived for the moment.
And that was a form of comfort, a form of contentment.
🪁Be a kid in your head.
☘️March has only just begun. It’s a long month full of possibility.
🍃We will soon get to turn the page on another season, another quarter of the year.
We will even change clocks and lose an hour.⏰
Time is passing quickly enough.⌛️
Don’t forget to take some back for yourself.💚
✨You could be the reason.✨
You could be the only thing standing between a person and their utter despair.
You could be the reason someone decides to persevere through another day.
You may not be able to change someone’s mind about the very biggest of things, but you can change someone’s mind about other things.
Little things.
Like whether people cast warmth in their direction. Often enough.
How they have been feeling helpless and hopeless and like they’re out of options.
How they’ve been feeling like the world smiles on others but it doesn’t smile on them.
You can smile on them.😊
You can make their world feel tighter. Lighter. Closer. More connected.
You can warm them up, if even for a moment.☀️
You can help them through another hour. ⌛️
And if more people did this, they could add to those hours because kindness compounds.
🪷Kindness abounds.
🪷Kindness erupts.
🪷Kindness explodes.
🪷Kindness is contagious.
And unlike most viruses, I hope you catch this one. 🙌
🪴Nature is our Caregiver🪴
This is the amaryllis my girls put into soil the day after Christmas. 🌺
It’s been fun to notice small growth from day to day.🎋
Behind it is a maple syrup candle I got in Toronto a few winters ago, it reminds me of a special weekend visit with my mother. 🍁
If what you’re hearing on the news is too much, try to quiet one sense and bring out another.
🐿️ Use your eyes – is there anything in nature that’s changing: colors, geese flying south, anything different about this time of year?
🚌 I noticed there was a touch more daylight as I was walking my daughter to the bus stop early this morning.
☀️ An hour later, I don’t think I could have been happier to use my sunglasses.
Your nose – are there any particular scents that bring you joy?
🍪 Bake something delicious.
🍠 Cookies, cornbread, pancakes, heck – even a sweet potato brings out the most wonderful smell in a kitchen.
Touch: are there fabrics that you love? 🧣
Velvet. Suede. Vegan leather. Chenille. An old wool sweater. A cozy college sweatshirt. Something to wrap around you, offer comfort.
💫 Envelop yourself in other senses.💫
I find whenever I’m having trouble making sense of something, I start to focus on my other “senses.”
We are lucky to have one another.
🍎 Lean into your friends, family, neighbors, bus drivers, teachers…
We are each other’s natural caregivers. 🕊️
Let nature take care of you, too.