A few nights ago while I was flipping through one of my TV apps, an old black and white movie called The Shop Around the Corner made way back in 1940 popped up and I scrolled past it without thinking. Moments later it occurred to me that The Shop Around the Corner was the name …
#MondayMotivation // Cheesy Monday Quotes to Inspire
Just a handful of pretty and inspiring quotes today to kickstart your day and week. They may be super cheesy, but hey, sometimes cheesy works! Hopefully one or more will motivate you (and ME!) to get creative and make this Monday the start of something new or the end of something old. Either way, it’s …
#MondayMotivation // Trust Your Struggle
I began writing a #MondayMotivation post but couldn’t get motivated. Even I need inspiration now and again and though I did watch a few thrilling TedX talks to help motivate, everything I wrote just sounded contrived and even forced. I’m so inconsistent lately, and I hate it. Overwhelmed by the scale of some things, underwhelmed …
#MondayMotivation // Only You Can Be YOU…
* Quote courtesy of Ruby Rose, via Snapchat Being YOU is what makes YOU special… …No one is YOU & that is YOUR power. I have a pale pink post-it on the lower corner of my desktop computer with the above written on it as a reminder to not compare myself to others ~ in …
Live Without Expectations…
In the midst of all the commotion in our lives at the moment, we constantly find ourselves trying not to become too attached to outcomes. At the moment, this thinking mostly revolves around not only the close of escrow of our possible new house in Lake Arrowhead but also getting attached to the “idea” of …
Sometimes Quotes Are Actually Helpful…
Sometimes my own thoughts spin out of control. And sometimes my conscious self wants to punch my subconscious self in the mouth when it finally pays attention to its constant badgering. I found myself finally at my wits’ end yesterday and yelled STOP WORRYING ABOUT FAILING, YOU ARE ALREADY A SUCCESS at my subconscious ALOUD …
Happy New Year!
“For happiness, how little suffices for happiness! . . . the least thing precisely, the gentlest thing, the lightest thing, a lizard’s rustling, a breath, a wisk, an eye glance – little maketh up the best happiness. Be still.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche May we all find happiness in the small wonders this year. Happy 2010!
Surrender
“We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” ~ E.M. Forester Such an amazing quote. So true. So so so true, it’s not even funny. The goal is to really just let go… let go of what you think …
* It’s My Birthday *
“Imperfection is beauty; madness is genius. and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.” -Marilyn Monroe {June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962} Like many little girls and even women, I have always felt a kinship with Marilyn Monroe . . . mostly because we were born on the same day …and a …
Jennifer Aniston in December 2008 Vogue
This quote from Jennifer Aniston in the December issue of Vogue is literally everything. every. thing. “Everything you want in the world is just right outside your comfort zone.” Let it sink in while admiring her beauty and her incredibly fit body 😉