This story will illustrate an internal point of reference. I visited my friend, Zita, recently at a tiny beach town in Mexico, called Sayulita. She was chatting at dinner about her recent trip to Las Vegas. And how when she told her friend about the trip, the friend said immediately, “You are so lucky you are in party central.” My …
You are not good enough, comparison says to me every day. I look at social media posts, and comparison tells me, I will never be good enough. I was never good enough to start, and I am going to end up being not good enough, even more. Comparison tells me that I am ugly, fat, and stupid. It tells me …
I have noticed this tendency in me to brush off people when they tell me, “Oh, that’s wonderful. You are a writer.” This usually happens when I tell them that I write every single day, that I am a writer at heart, and that I have a few novels published on Amazon. I laugh it off. “Oh, no, I’m not …
I have a lot of doubt in me, and that’s normal. That’s what I have realized after speaking to dozens of creative people. Everyone has doubts – that’s why you need to hold your heart. If you are human and have a heart, you are going to have an abundance of doubt sitting around either buried deep in your closet …
Recently, I went to India to visit my mother’s relatives and to enjoy a bit of sun, spices, and shopping. I ate a lot of food, I did a lot of shopping with my mother, and I spent a lot of time groaning about the heat, and I learned that hope is the most beautiful emotion. But more than that, …
Everything that happens in life is a lesson and death is the best lesson out there. I truly believe in this adage. Everything that is happening, from the tiniest of things to the biggest of things, is a lesson that we need to learn at that moment in time.
There are so many things I want to say about this topic – be careful what you wish for. I have been thinking a lot about wishes, hopes, desires, dreams, and goals. I turned 35 this year. And thankfully, I have never been the kind of person who has to have accomplished a bunch of meaningless tasks before a certain …
Recently, I went to Dubai for a quick transit trip and it bought up lessons of present moment awareness that I wish to share with you. I hadn’t been back to Dubai in 18 years at that point. I had spent some of the happiest years in my teenage years in Dubai, and then we left when I was 16. …
Recently, I read this awesome quote attributed to Wesley Snipes (on his Twitter account), and I instantly copied and pasted it into my archives of useful quotes. “Don’t let the internet rush you; No one is posting their failures.” Boom! Bam! Bing! Absolutely on point. As soon as I read it, I got goosebumps, and that’s when I know something …