What do you have, that’s just for you? This is the question we must ask ourselves to balance out the parts of us that are goal-driven or engaging in activities with an agenda.

What are you denying? When we over-focus on the things that are wrong or bad, we end up not putting our attention on the good. That becomes a form of denying the good.

This is the part where we get to let everyone do something really radical: be an adult. It’s not your responsibility to change them or get them to tell the truth. Repeat after me: Not. Your. Responsibility. Be an adult. (And let them choose whether or not to act like an adult, too).

Stories are those beliefs that we assume as fact--that the world is or isn’t this way, or that so-and-so really meant this when she said that...and everything is a Story. My new mantra around Stories is this: “Check it out, and let it go.”