Monday motivational: Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning - Gloria Steinem

Monday motivational: Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right – Henry Ford

Monday motivational: Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined - Henry David Thoreau

Self-Love

Valentine's day, in fact the entire month of February, is centered around love. Who do you love. Who will love you enough to buy you presents. When will the person who secretly loves you decide to confess. To be honest, a whole lot of unnecessary pressure.

For me, the very bittersweet lesson the Universe has taught me over the last few months, is that none of this matters. Not even one slight bit, without SELF-LOVE.

We are taught and conditioned from very early on that what society thinks of us is paramount. Truthfully, what society thinks of us is NONE OF OUR BUSINESS. 

What matters is what YOUR heart speaks to your brain at the end of the day. When you are lying in bed and it is just you and the night. What do you hear? That you are ugly, worthless, fat, inferior? Inferior compared to who? The person next to you? Your neighbour? Your colleague? The truth is, none of this matters. Their stories, their truths, are for their ears only.

The best story you can tell yourself, is one of beauty. Because the truth is, each one of us were created with infinite internal beauty. Infinite light and love. Never ever let your light be dimmed, or your story made irrelevant or inferior. Shine, shine and shine again. 

I would like to end with my favourite Marianne Williamson quote:

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” 

Have a wonderful Valentine's weekend. And love yourself.

Monday motivational: First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end - Aristotle

Monday motivational: When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us - Helen Keller