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Sunday Thinking
"I hope you find time to remind yourself that you are where you need to be and you will get to where you want to be."
The weekly Sunday Thinking newsletter is quick-hit content that aims to provide a booster shot to your thought process as you end and start your week.
"It's you. It's always been you. You've always been enough, and it's not your fault that it took you so long to understand that, because this world can make us all feel unworthy—but there's a better life waiting for you on the other side of your commitment to fully embracing this truth. When you understand that you're enough, you free yourself from deficit-based thinking and make space for healthy growth. When you understand that you're enough, you empower yourself to choose happiness over conformity. When you understand that you're enough, you give yourself permission to be proud of who you are right now instead of always feeling like you're one step away."
I. It’s Okay Not to Know
I think one of the most powerful things that you can say when you're working or when you're leading, or when you're trying to figure something out is, "I don't know."
"I don't know. let's talk it through."
Or "I don't know, what do you think?"
Some of my favorite things to say, and I hear myself saying it all the time, is:
"Teach me how to do this. Teach me what you mean."
"Tell me what you mean. Educate me."
I'm confident enough in what I do know that I can tell you what I don't know. And that's what we as leaders have to get to.
Source: MasterClass, Ava DuVernay, Award-winning Filmmaker
II. Designing Your Life
How do you build a good life?
Relentlessly follow your intuition.
Build with people who also love to grow.
Take responsibility for your healing.
Love yourself so deeply that you feel at home in your own body and mind.
Teach yourself to forgive.
Never stop being a kind person.
Source: Yung Pueblo, The Way Forward
III. A Wish For You
I wish you the courage to be warm when the world would prefer that you be cool.
I wish you success sufficient to your needs.
I wish you failure to temper that success.
I wish you joy in all your days.
I wish you sadness so that you may better measure joy.
I wish you gladness to overbalance grief.
I wish you humor and a twinkle in the eye.
I wish you glory and the strength to bear its burdens.
I wish you sunshine on your path and storms to season your journey.
I wish you peace in the world in which you live and in the smallest corner of your heart where truth is kept.
I wish you faith to help define your living and your life.
More I cannot wish you except perhaps love to make all the rest worthwhile.
Source: Robert A. Ward
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V. Question
If someone observed my actions for a week, what would they say my priorities are?
VI. This Week, I Will
Release what no longer aligns.
Breathe deeply and give myself grace.
Spend time with more people that inspire me.
Keep showing up and trusting everything is going to work out.
Remember, mindfulness and gratitude transform everyday moments.
The Last Words…
"There will be moments in your current chapter where you feel like the life you desire to live feels out of touch and out of sight. That all the reveries in your mind will stay stagnant there, never fully manifesting into where your feet are. Those moments will be puzzling—you'll feel like you've gone backward in your life trajectory that you've always imagined and that you're far from experiencing all that you want to take in from this life. But then there will be a moment where you get a glimpse of the life you've always desired—you'll have a taste of the lifestyle you know you were destined to have, the people you want to be surrounded by, and the happiness you know you've been yearning to feel. In that moment, hold onto it. Cherish it. Take note of it. Write down the experience by describing the sensations and feelings associated with it. Because soon after, you'll have another moment. And then a third. And then a fourth, and so on. And you will think back to the very first, remembering where and how this all started. Those moments will show how the life you pictured yourself having no longer just holds a place in your mind—it'll be the life you start to live, sustaining the joys associated with each. That life is worth sticking around for."
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