How you start your day will determine how it ends.
As I sent my husband and daughter out the door early this morning, bellies with a touch of protein in them to keep them sharp and energetic, I gave my dog a nuzzle as I passed by her cozy bed, her belly full and ready for more sleep, I felt an overwhelming sense of gratitude. I am so grateful for my peaceful mornings. So much so, I go to bed anxious to wake up in order to experience this peaceful time of day again. My life wasn’t always this way.
I spent the greater part of two decades scrambling around in a frantic rush in the mornings during my 20’s and 30’s. Snoozing my alarm several times, barking orders at my daughter to “get going or she’s going to make us late!”; as if a 5 year old is responsible for determining if we get someplace on time! Yeah right, that’s another article in and of itself. I complained of never having enough time and typically ended my day frazzled and irritated. I look back on those years now and wonder who the person behaving like that was?
Thankfully, in my quest for infinite personal growth, I figured out how to stop behaving like an imbecile. I figured out how to take charge of my day by taking charge of my mornings. It only took me about 17 years to figure it out, so that’s not half bad.
When I sat down this morning, in my favorite corner of my home, a place I planned with thoughtful intent to create a peaceful setting, to do my morning meditation, prayer, reading and writing, I opened one of my books to find this…
“Let all of your efforts be directed to something, let it keep that end in view. It’s not activity that disturbs people, but false conceptions of things that drive them mad.”
Eloquent words to describe what it took me all these years to figure out. The very thing I have be speaking and teaching on in the EML Academy to kick off the new year. Set a focus, a meaningful focus for your life and work downwards from there into the necessary actions to achieve that end. It had never dawned on me however, this is exactly what needs to happen at the start of each day. I was doing it, without actually realizing it. But this morning, I found the words…
Start your day how you want it to end. Focus your energy and efforts at the start of each day with the desired end in mind. Do you really want to end your day exhausted, irritable, and feeling defeated by all you didn’t accomplish? Or would you rather end your day at peace, with a sense of accomplishment and enthusiasm to hit it again tomorrow?
If you want your day to end well, start looking at how it begins.
Your happiness is not a gift given to you by others.
Create a mantra for your life. If you aren't writing your story, someone else is writing it for you.
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Hello my friends!
I'm finishing up the transition away from Locals onto Substack and wanted to be sure each of you have made the necessary adjustments to your accounts. For those of you who have remaining months left on your paid support here, I have comped you the balance over at Substack.
This will be the final week I post content here.
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One of the biggest challenges in writing my book is not being able to share any of it along the way. Given my narcissistic need for constant approval and attention, not having any feedback is killing me. Even negative attention is better than no attention at all (which explains a lot of my behavior in life), so not only am I missing the praise but I also miss my haters.
I need to break out of this cave. Thanks to Chuck Palahniuk who writes Spoiler Alert on Substack, but you would know as the author of Fight Club, I got the idea to share some excerpts and things that won’t make the final edit. This will give us both what we need. I get some attention and you get some thought provoking words to make you think (and possibly laugh, cry or both.)
Today’s snippet is from the first draft of a chapter titled, Remove Your Kindergarten Name Tag. I am currently on my third revision and we can all be thankful for this. As I walk my readers through the dark hallways of my earliest years, and attempt ...
Wanted to pass this short video along. We think of health in very limited ways. Faith, nature, love, communality, shared human experience…all prove to be just as necessary, if not more so, than going to the gym.
I’ve always viewed and taught health from this perspective. It is my belief the lack of these essential elements is as big an issue in our culture as poor diet and lack of movement.
The takeaway-we can do better🙏🏼
