Posts by Annie
Positivity, On Purpose
Positivity is easy when everything is going your way and you’ve gotten an excellent night of sleep. But what about when you haven’t slept well, it’s pouring rain, and your dog, who abhors being wet, refuses to go outside to relieve himself? What about when your best laid plans are cancelled? When your beloved family…
Read MoreStop Feeling Badly For Being
“I feel guilty,” she says, holding what she believes to be a hideous piece of ceramic selected by her blind aunt while vacationing. “I’m ashamed at how much I spent on this,” she confesses, reviewing the wardrobe society has told her she needs in order to be accepted. “I feel like I have to…
Read MoreThe Non-Yes Of It All…
Our brains, conditioned by society and governed by ego, tell us yes and no all day long. Intuition exists on a higher plane of knowing, and communicates via feelings. Feelings of excitement, curiosity, and anxious anticipation are all intuitive yeses. Feelings of obligation, guilt, drudgery, doubt: those are all intuitive nos. Intuition isn’t based on…
Read MoreThe Stories We Tell…
One of the most powerful yet overlooked abilities you possess is to continually invent and reinvent yourself. Whether or not you’re aware, you’re deciding who you are and who you’ll be all the time. You speak yourself into existence through the repetition of stories. I am this way because of the way I…
Read MoreRoom To Grow
So many people were taught to feel safe by stockpiling. Their cabinets are crammed with excess. Their lives are over scheduled with commitments that may or may not align with their values. In an honest attempt to ensure their every need is reliably met, this way of living creates a prevailing sense of anxiety. To…
Read MoreLove Or Be Sold Lies
We are all works in progress. What we aren’t are problems to be solved. The trouble is, for every facet of self that exists, there is a company or person seeking to exploit our humanity in the name of improvement. Buy this product.Take this course. Only the purchase of this thing can save you…
Read MoreEmbrace Daily Rituals
Beginning today, consider the components of your daily life not merely as routines, but rituals. Routines are obligatory. They can be laborious. And they don’t necessarily require our active attention or inspire positive emotions. Rituals are ceremonies we perform for ourselves. They invite us to focus on the present moment, to enjoy the Simple acts…
Read MoreI Am Deliberate With My Time & Attention
Towards the end of last year, I was scanning podcast episodes when one caught my eye: Your 2026 WILL be a waste if you don’t listen to this. I didn’t want to waste my life and have my new year be an utter failure, so I briefly considered playing it. The effect of the title…
Read MoreAct Now In Service Of Your Future Self
I have long held the belief that success is largely dependent upon our ability to suck it up in the present in service of our future selves. Our actions today dictate our circumstances later. When we bear that truth in mind (and have clarity about what we ultimately desire and value), we’re better able…
Read MoreHow Complete Do You Feel?
We tend to hold ourselves to the rules that others have laid out for us. We think the end of the race can only be where the organizers drew the finish line. That the product is finished only when its contents are completely consumed. That the book is finished when we’ve read the whole…
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