It may not be as big and shiny as your friends and colleagues. It may not garner the acclaim as others. It may not be sexy. But you have something important to create and contribute. You are creative, in your own unique and much-needed way.
We are most able to make significant changes to our habits when we do so in relationship with others. Our new habits have a better chance of sticking when we allow others to witness, encourage, and celebrate us, and hold us accountable when we need it.
We often even perceive the world as getting worse even when it is actually demonstrably improving.
No creation is ever pure emergence or pure design. Acts of genius require both fertile ground and someone planting and tending to a seed.
We simply cannot do it all. We cannot do everything we’d like to do without burning ourselves out. So we must choose to let many things go to more fully choose our highest vision of who we are and what we are here to offer.
Purpose is like a garden. When we are feeling a lack of purpose, we don’t go out in the woods digging for it. We simply plant some seeds, pull some weeds, water (but not too much), and give it time.
Let’s stop subjecting ourselves to this pointless, unwinnable battle against enough. Instead, let’s consider what we might do with our lives if we didn’t actually have anything to prove in the first place.
I was in my late 20s, traveling in Peru for a work conference. Once the conference ended, I took a solo excursion from Lima to the Sacred Valley near the ancient Incan cities of Cusco and Machu Picchu
When we chase bigger impact, we often end up applying and reinforcing the current system’s broken logic to social change. We end up recreating the same toxicity that got us here in the first place.
One of the big lies among people who want to have a positive impact in the world is that to do good, we kind of have to feel bad. We
