Tag: growth
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An Unwillingness to Surrender
I am an incredibly lazy, slow-moving person (more on this another time, but please don’t argue, I promise it’s true.) And yet, paradoxically, I possess an innate unwillingness to give up on certain things. What’s interesting about that sentence is the word “certain.” I do easily give up on some things. It’s not uncommon for…
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What’s Wrong With Being
This week’s thoughts are going to require some context, so please get your popcorn and settle in for a multi-part story. Ready? Great. I was at the gym recently and my coach paired me with a woman I didn’t know well. As she and I prepared for our partner workout together, she said, “I have…
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Hold Onto Hope
I’ve been thinking a lot about hope lately, and how easy it is to lose it. It seems to me that at least 80% of every negative behavior or thought I have is a result of losing hope. When I’m on a specific meal plan, I do well when I feel hopeful. But when I…
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The Wheel of All the Feelings
You’ve seen this, right? Or something like it? If you haven’t or it’s been a while, take a moment (or seven, depending on how good you are at reading upside-down) to scan those words. That version of the wheel is pretty moderate – I’ve seen versions with hundreds of emotions listed. Which I find…overwhelming, scary,…
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Melancholy Traffic
“Sometimes I wonder about my life. I lead a small life. Well, valuable, but small. And sometimes I wonder, do I do it because I like it, or because I haven’t been brave? So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn’t it be the other way…
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The Daily Grind
In my freshman year of college, my creative writing professor made us keep a writing journal and share it with another classmate every week. It was supposed to help us write down ideas, memories, phrases, basically to keep an account of our lives and thoughts so we could later write about them. I loved doing…