your daily rock : create your fate
What does that mean, create your fate? Surely there is much about our lives we can’t control. But there is so, so much we do control: we control our reactions to the circumstances in which we find ourselves. Always. We can either see that as a burden or a liberation. …
your daily rock : pay it forward
I have been the beneficiary of great acts of love and kindness. My job is not to repay those, but to pay them forward. I talked with Susan Piver about this a year ago, about how hard it is to receive. And I love the image we agreed upon for …
your daily rock : be different
You are different. No need to try to be different. What is needed is for you to embrace all the ways you are different. To love all the ways you are different. To honor all the ways you are different. Can you do that? Love, (These beautifully …
your daily rock : never give up
Two words: Diana Nyad. Her dream might not be your dream. Even so, she so clearly represents what it means to follow a dream with a clarity of purpose and a passion. As she has said: “I am interested in the unknown, and the only path to the unknown is …
your daily rock : make a peace offering
You’ve lost touch with someone who was important in your life. Someone who is still important in your life, but estranged from you. You had an argument years ago with a family member and haven’t spoken since. You have exacted violence on yourself year after year by the ways you …
your daily rock : believe in your beauty
Beauty is such a charged word, and it need not be. You are beautiful. There is simply no doubt in my mind about that. Your heart beating inside your chest? Sheer, ecstatic beauty. The way you look at clouds? Full of wistful beauty. When you speak respectfully to a child? …
your daily rock : please lick the art
I love, love, love, love this story. And I think we should do exactly the opposite: I think we should love things so deeply and so fiercely that we lick the art every day. Today, show your abundant enthusiasm for something! Love, (These beautifully painted rocks are …
your daily rock : wake up to beauty
Somehow we save beauty for special occasions–those flowers we receive from a loved one, the photos of sunsets that fill us with satisfaction, the reflections of sails on a lake. What if we really saw the beauty around us all the time? The cracks in the sidewalk that provide a …
your daily rock : surprise!
As adults, we often train ourselves AGAINST surprise. Let’s change that. Let’s train ourselves FOR surprise. Today, surprise someone! Let yourself be surprised! As remember, as Tierney Gearon said, “Even in the familiar there can be surprise and wonder.” Love, (These beautifully painted rocks are created by …
your daily rock : live an extraordinary life
Do you know how you do that? You don’t have to have a big, impressive resume or invent something that saves lives. You don’t have to live in a showcase home or have a New York Time’s bestselling book. You don’t have to even fulfill your wildest dream (though I …
