Sometimes we can be really harsh on ourselves,
for not being as far ahead as we think we should be,
for having made that mistake,
for not having spoken up (I’m so lame),
for having spoken up (I’m being too difficult – they’ll stop liking me),
for volunteering to help even though we didn’t really want to,
for not volunteering (they’ll think I’m selfish),
for … well, you get the idea 🙂
For those days – and any other time really – I assembled a list of 14 things to remind yourself of to reconnect with calm, peace and grounded.
Hop on over to Lifehack.org and check ’em out right here!
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We don’t own our mistakes
because we’re afraid
they will make us look bad,
stupid or pathetic.
And so we go to great lengths to
protect our image of perfection,
oozing an air of
strong powerful confidence.
But while hiding our mistakes,
covering them up,
making excuses or pretending
they didn’t happen,
we are crumbling
– behind our carefully cultivated mask –
into a heap of fear,
self loathing and insecurity.
Yet,
it is by owning our actions
– even when they are not
what we intended them to be,
and even when they don’t reflect
who we truly are,
that we are aligning ourselves again
with our true selves
with class, style and integrity.
Apologizing for the lie,
cleaning up the debris,
coming up with a solution,
proactively
is so much more empowering than
being at war with ourselves and the world
over a mistake we are too proud to admit.
For it’s not the mistake
that is eating away at our confidence.
It’s our denying the mistake,
that is.
This poem was inspired by this post from Terri Cole on Positively Positive.
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I can’t count the times
I made a mistake
and felt horrible.
Or the times I didn’t do
something I really wanted to do,
because I was afraid to fail.
I can’t count the times
I thought the world would end
if I failed,
but it never did.
Or the times I thought
I’d never be able
to handle it,
but somehow I always did.
That’s how failing teaches us
so naturally and instinctively
to find our footing back
even though at first it feels
as if we’ll never recover.
And that’s how failing teaches us
so undeniably and unmistakably
that we are capable
of so much more
than we give ourselves credit for.
And that truth is worth reminding ourselves of
every time we use our past and future failures
to settle for illusionary safe.
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Have you ever not been doing something because you were afraid of making a fool of yourself?
Have you ever done something you really really wanted to do with a “I-don’t-really-care-that-much”-attitude, hoping to make the disappointment of potential failure more bearable that way?
Well, then you might like my first ever column for Lifehack.org that got published last Monday!
I dive into 5 powerful ways to deal with any past or future failure that are way more productive than beating ourselves up – check them out right here!
Enjoy!
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I saw this quote on Arianna Huffington’s Instagram earlier today
And I realized
We don’t listen to ourselves.
We ignore what we truly want.
We dismiss what we really need.
We ridicule ourselves with harsh self talk.
We just push ourselves forward,
scaring ourselves forward with the dreaded idea
of having to face what a failure we are
if we’d stop in our tracks.
How different would our lives be
if we’d start showering ourselves with unassuming gentle love
instead of bombarding ourselves with
high maintenance self-deprecation dressed up as cheerful must do energy.
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I love the Oscars. And I love red carpets.
And even though I didn’t watch the Oscars live – there’s plenty of videos and red carpet pics on the interwebs to indulge in, which – of course – I’ve been doing diligently over the past couple of days! 🙂
And of course there’s the one pic that I couldn’t have missed even if I would have been hiding in a cave – the world’s most famous and truly fantastic selfie that everyone must have seen by now…
So, tell me, do you know who that guy is to the right?
Well, I didn’t either and it appears to be the adorable Lupita Nyong’o’s younger brother who flamboyantly photobombed the big stars’ selfie. So cool, right?
As I was watching the the day after interview Ellen DeGeneres did with Lupita (it’s right here and just watching it makes you happy – Lupita’s spontaneous laughter and charm are so infectious!), she casually said something like ‘oh, he’s living life like an exclamation point!’.
And ain’t that so beautiful – living life like an exclamation point?
I think that’s just brilliant.
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