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your daily rock : your purpose is to be.

As my friend, Lauren Rosenfeld says, “Your to-BE list is more important than your to-DO list.” Love,       (These beautifully painted rocks are created by Kim Mailhot, aka The Rock Fairy.

your daily rock : trust your heart

Measurements and return-on-investments and profit-and-loss statements. They are often the wrong way to gauge the goodness or rightness of something. We need to create a new spreadsheet. In matters of life, trust your heart instead. Love,       (These beautifully painted rocks are created by Kim Mailhot, aka The …

your daily rock : purge

Let go deeply. Love,       (These beautifully painted rocks are created by Kim Mailhot, aka The Rock Fairy.

your daily rock : go directly to the source

When you read this rock just a moment ago, I have no doubt you knew immediately what “the source” is for you. It is different for each of us. Go directly to your source today. It might be outside you, and it might be inside you. Don’t look too far …

your daily rock : listen to children

Children know. Let’s listen to them. Not halfheartedly, not over the top of our laptops, not in that patronizing way adults sometimes treat children, and not only for a moment until they pause and we can break away. When a child speaks to us, ours or another’s, let us put …

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 …