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“And then I realized that to be seen by others, I first had to be willing to see myself.” ~Anonymous

There’s a big difference between empty fatigue and gratifying exhaustion. Life is too short not to focus more on what matters most.Before you know it you will be asking, “How did it get so late so soon?” Perhaps you can already relate. So take time to reflect.

Christmas is just around the corner.A time filled with joy, cozy days and nights and plenty of fun with family and friends. But it can also be a bit of a stressful time of the year with work to finish up and preparations for the holidays.So in today’s post I’d like to help out a bit with those preparations and share 101 of the most beautiful, inspirational and funny Christmas quotes for cards.Use them for your Christmas cards but also your letterboard, Instagram, group chats, emails and texts to express exactly what you want to say and to make this holiday season more joyful for yourself and the people close to you.“Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind.” – Calvin Coolidge“What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future.” – Agnes M.

“Don’t believe everything you hear—even in your own mind.” – Daniel G. Amen

“You can’t save someone who isn’t willing to participate in their own rescue.” ~Unknown

Opportunities are like sunrises, if we wait too long we miss them.Too often we waste our time waiting for the ideal path to appear. But it never does of course. Because we forget that paths are made by walking, not waiting.

You can’t lift a thousand pounds all at once, yet you can easily lift one pound a thousand times. Tiny, repeated efforts will get you there.I have witnessed people reinventing themselves at all ages — 48-year-olds starting families, 57-year-olds graduating from college for the first time, 71-year-olds starting successful businesses, and more. How did they all do it? In a nutshell, they started being more mindful about making progress in their lives, step by step.

And use them yourself too to have a couple of good laughs, to not take things too seriously and to reduce those stress levels.“I like these cold, gray winter days. Days like these let you savor a bad mood.” – Bill Watterson“It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea.” – Dylan Thomas“For every snowflake that falls, an idiot forgets how to drive.” – Unknown“The problem with winter sports is that – follow me closely here – they generally take place in winter.” – Dave Barry“Winter is nature’s way of saying, ‘Up yours.'” – Robert Byrne“It was so cold I almost got married.” – Shelley Winters“Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.” – Sinclair Lewis“As winter approaches – bringing cold weather and family drama – we crave page-turners, books made for long nights and tryptophan-induced sloth.” – Sarah MacLean“It was so cold today that I saw a dog chasing a cat, and the dog was walking.” – Mickey Rivers“A lot of people like snow.

“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.” ~Kahlil Gibran

“I have seen and touched and danced and sang and climbed and loved and meditated on a lifetime spent living honestly. Should it all end tonight, I can positively say there would be no regrets. I feel fortunate to have walked 90 years in my shoes. I am truly lucky. I really have lived 1,000 times over.”Those are the opening lines of the final entry in my grandma Zelda’s journal—a 270-page leather-bound journal she wrote small entries in almost every morning during the final decade of her life.

“What day is it?” asked Pooh. “It’s today,” squeaked Piglet. “My favorite day,” said Pooh.When you first awake, be mindful and take a second to think about what a privilege it is to be alive and relatively healthy. Breathe onto the bathroom mirror just to see how amazing your breath looks. The moment you start acting like life is a blessing, I assure you it will start to feel like one.If you’d like to practice starting your days more mindfully in the weeks ahead, below you will find 52 morning quotes.

Winter can be a tough one. And the longer it goes on the heavier it can feel.With the short and cold days.

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” ~Rumi

“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” ~Lao Tzu

I hope you’ll find something here to lighten your mood, lower your stress levels and make this a happy and positive month for you.“December is the toughest month of the year. Others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, October, August, and February.” – Mark Twain“December is the month when kids stop being nice and start being perfect angels.” – Stephen Colbert“It is December, and nobody asked if I was ready.” – Sarah Kay“A lot of people like snow.

December is here with the darkest days of the year but also twinkling holiday lights, cozy decorations and friends and families coming together.It’s a time for preparations. And time for reflection on the year we’ve had.And to help you throughout this varied month I’d like to share 101 of the most inspirational, positive and funny short December quotes.I hope you’ll find something here to help you make this a wonderful end to your year.“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.” – Albert Camus“December has the clarity, the simplicity, and the silence you need for the best fresh start of your life.” – Vivian Swift“December, being the last month of the year, cannot help but make us think of what is to come.” – Fennel Hudson“The magic of December lies in its ability to bring people together.” – Richard Paul Evans“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.” – Hal Borland“Winter is not a season, it’s a celebration.” – Anamika Mishra“Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.” – Pietro Aretino“Wisdom comes with winters.” – Oscar Wilde“Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.” – Oprah Winfrey“To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake it is necessary to stand out in the cold.” – Aristotle“December dances with snowflakes.” – Beatrix Potter“Winter forms our character and brings out our best.” – Tom Allen“In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.” – William Blake“If winter comes, can spring be far behind?” – Percy Bysshe Shelley“Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.” – Paul Theroux“Every winter has its spring.” – H.

Embrace who you are, and revel in it.Sometimes we try to show the world we’re flawless in hopes that we will be liked and accepted by everyone. But we can’t please everyone and we shouldn’t try. Take this to heart.

Important note: This article discusses suicide and mental health. If you or someone you know is in immediate danger, please call or text 988 in the U.S. to connect with the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. You can also use these resources to get help right away.Many people today struggle with thoughts of taking their own lives.

Every relationship has its ups and downs. In the beginning of a relationship, it often feels effortless to be close and share excitement with your partner. Over time, life gets in the way.

“Sometimes the strongest thing you can do is to ask for help.” ~Unknown

Successful people love to help beginners. They have an incredible work ethic and rarely complain. As a result, others naturally look up to them and want to follow in their footsteps.But here’s the truth: there’s no success without sacrifice.

Earlier today, I was sitting on a neighborhood park bench eating a sandwich when an elderly couple pulled their car up under a nearby oak tree. They rolled down the windows and turned up some jazz music on the radio. Then the man got out of the car, walked around to the passenger side, and opened the door for the woman.

In the end, more than anything else, we regret the little things we wish we’d done differently.“If only…” Those two words paired together create one of the saddest phrases in the English language.Here are ten choices in life that ultimately lead to that phrase of regret, and how to avoid them on the average day:If the face you always show the world is a mask, someday there will be nothing beneath it. Because when you spend too much time focusing on everyone else’s perception of you, or who everyone else wants you to be, you eventually forget who you really are. So don’t fear the judgments of others; you know in your heart who you are and what’s true to you.

“I was constantly seeking a balance between mourning what’s already been lost, making space for the time and moments we still had left, and making sense of this complicated process that felt like my heart was split between two contrasting realities: hope and heartbreak.” ~Liz Newman

“Finally, I realized that I was never asking too much. I was just asking the wrong person.” ~ Unknown

Thanksgiving will soon be here and although many mainly focus on family there are also friends that are very important.Plenty of people celebrate Friendsgiving these days to show appreciation and love for the people who choose to be in our lives, the ones that are there on tough days to listen and make us laugh and sometimes maybe understand us better than family would.So in today’s post I want to share 85 of the most positive, meaningful and funny Thanksgiving quotes for friends.Use them to express your gratitude, to share a couple of laughs together and to have a happy and fun holiday.“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” – Marcel Proust“We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.” – John F. Kennedy“I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson“The capacity for friendship is God’s way of apologizing for our families.” – Jay McInerney“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.” – Oprah Winfrey“When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.” – Maya Angelou“One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca“When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.” – Dalai Lama“Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson“The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.” – William Blake“I am happy because I’m grateful.

The most powerful changes happen when we decide to take control of what we do have power over, instead of craving control over what we do not.Holding on is hard. Holding on contributes to stress, unhappiness, relationship issues, and so much more.

You have come a long way, and you’re still learning and growing. Be thankful for the lessons. Take them and make the best of things today.For my 18th birthday, many moons ago, my grandfather on my mom’s side gave me four lightly-used flannel shirts that he no longer needed.

I hope you’ll find something here to help you truly express how you feel at the dinner table, in a text or on a card or maybe via social media posts on Instagram.“Having somewhere to go is home. Having someone to love is family. Having both is a blessing.” – Donna Hedges“The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal.” – C.S.

In everything from teen rom coms to relationship advice columns, kissing is painted as the litmus test for love, desire, and connection. What’s often overlooked is how complicated kissing can be for neurodivergent people, whose brains and bodies process touch, taste, and proximity differently.For many of my clients with ADHD, kissing isn’t always the warm, intimate act it’s “supposed” to be. Instead, it can feel like a sensory storm.There’s too much saliva and not enough breathing.

I hope you’ll find something here that’ll give you a few good laughs, reduce some of that holiday stress and help you to make this a happy fall month.“November always seemed to me the Norway of the year.” – Emily Dickinson“I suppose I will die never knowing what pumpkin pie tastes like when you have room for it.” – Robert Brault“The November evening had a bite; it nibbled not-quite-gently at her cheeks and ears.” – Aleksandr Wootton“November is the most disagreeable month in the whole year.” – Louisa May Alcott“I have come to regard November as the older, harder man’s October.” – Henry Rollins“In November you begin to know how long the winter will be.” – Martha Gellhorn“No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, no fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds – November!” – Thomas Hood“I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion.” – Henry David Thoreau“November at its best – with a sort of delightful menace in the air.” – Anne Bosworth Greene“It was the best kind of November day. Cold and crisp, but not quite freezing, not icy.” – Rainbow Rowell“This November there seems to be nothing to say.” – Anne Sexton“The house was very quiet, and the fog – we are in November now – pressed against the windows like an excluded ghost.” – E.M.

It’s not what you say to everyone else that determines your life; it’s what you whisper to yourself that has the greatest power and influence.The best lessons we learn in life are the lessons we learn over and over again. The human mind needs lots of reminders — lots of practice — to operate effectively.

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.When you can no longer think of a reason to continue, you must think of a reason to start over. There’s a big difference between giving up and starting over in the right direction. And there are three little words that can release you from your past and guide you forward to a positive new beginning.

When we think about Thanksgiving we often think about family and close friends.But another important part is expressing gratitude at work to your coworkers or employees (or maybe to your boss if you got a good one).So in today’s post I’d like to help you out with that and with finding the right words. This is 101 of the most positive, heartfelt and funny Thanksgiving quotes for work.Use one or a couple of them in a card for your favorite coworker or your team, in an email going out to your employees or maybe at a Thanksgiving lunch at work.I hope you’ll find something here to help you express how grateful you are for the things people in your workplace have said and done throughout the year.“At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person.

Use them in a text or a group chat with friends. For your social media like Instagram or in your home on a letter board.

“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” — Margaret MeadOur children grow up so fast. Before we know it they’re out there somewhere in the real world, and we’re left hoping that we’ve done enough to prepare them for everything they’ll encounter. Marc and I talk to course students and coaching clients on a daily basis — mothers and fathers alike — who share these sentiments.

One of the strongest signs of your growth is realizing you’re no longer holding on to the beliefs that once used to limit you.I received a thank you email recently from a longtime reader and coaching client named Kevin (I’m writing about him today with permission). He said the work Marc and I do helped him and his wife maintain healthy mindsets as they struggled and grew through one of the most difficult periods of their lives.

“You only live once, but if you do it right once is enough.” — Mae WestTwenty years ago, I was lucky enough to witness the humble, elegant, peaceful passing of my 89-year-old grandfather. As I sat quietly in his hospice room alongside my grandma and other family members, his nurse smiled softly and said, “I can see he lived well.

“Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.” ~Anatole France

You don’t realize how often you block your own present blessings by holding on to everything so tightly.It’s always necessary to accept when some part of your life has reached its inevitable end. Closing the door, completing the chapter, turning the page, etc. It doesn’t matter what you title it; what matters is that you find the strength to leave in the past those former parts of your life that are over, and those little ideals in your mind that simply aren’t meant to be.Over the past 15 years, as Angel and I have gradually worked with hundreds of our course students, coaching clients, and live event attendees, we’ve come to understand that the most common cause of human frustration on an average day is our stubborn propensity to hold on to things long after it’s time to let go. In a nutshell, we hold on tight to the hope that things will go exactly as we imagine, and then we complicate our lives to no end when they don’t.So let’s take a look at some of those things we ultimately regret holding on to in life…Try to use frustration and inconvenience to motivate you rather than annoy you. You are in control of the way you look at life. Instead of getting angry, find the lesson.

“It is very important for every human being to forgive herself or himself because if you live, you will make mistakes—it is inevitable. But once you do and you see the mistake, then you forgive yourself and say, ‘Well, if I’d known better I’d have done better.’” ~Maya Angelou

Let’s start off here with a simple question:Why do we always take things personally?There are admittedly quite a few valid reasons to consider. But the one Marc and I have found to be most common through 15 years of working with our coaching clients and live event attendees is the tendency we all have of putting ourselves at the center, and seeing everything — every event, conversation, circumstance, etc. — from the viewpoint of how it relates to us on a personal level.

Like many of you I’ll be listening to Taylor Swift’s brand new album The Life of a Showgirl while working today.So I thought this would be a good day to share 101 of the most inspirational, positive and empowering short Taylor Swift quotes.I hope you’ll find something relatable here that makes you think. Something uplifting if you’re having a tough day.And something to help you have a great week ahead.“No matter what happens in life, be good to people.

Accept yourself, embrace the present, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly in life, you have to let go of things that weigh you down.Each prompt below contains a quote and question to think about. I have personally used each of these prompts several times in the past to nudge myself into self-reflection, and I continue to revisit them regularly.

The truth does not cease to exist when it is forgotten or ignored.You know how you can hear or read something dozens of times in various ways before it finally sinks in? The truths listed below fall firmly into that category — timeless lessons that many of us probably learned years ago, and have been reminded of ever since, yet for whatever reason we tend to forget in the heat of the moment.This, my friends, is my attempt at helping all of us, myself included, “get it” and “remember it” once and for all…We know deep down that life is short, and that death will happen to all of us eventually, and yet we are infinitely surprised when it happens to someone we know. It’s like walking up a flight of stairs with a distracted mind, and misjudging the final step. You expected there to be one more stair than there is, and so you find yourself off balance for a moment, before your mind shifts back to reality and how the world really is.So let that reminder be a wake-up call to truly live your life today! Don’t ignore death, but don’t be afraid of life either.

“In elementary school my parents told me it didn’t matter what I did when I grew up, so long as it made me happy. ‘Happiness is the whole point of life,’ my father said. ‘But it doesn’t always come easy. Your mother loves to help people in need, so she became a psychiatric nurse. I love reading, writing and poetry, so I became an English teacher. We both find happiness in the hard work we do each day.’A few years later when I was in junior high, my sixth-grade homeroom teacher put me in detention for ‘being difficult.’ She went around the classroom and asked each student what they wanted to be when they grew up. When she got to me, I told her I wanted to be happy. She told me I was missing the whole point of the question. I told her she was missing the whole point of life.”That’s an old parable my grandmother recited to me countless times when I was a kid.

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” ~Rumi

It happens to all of us gradually as we live and grow. We discover more about who we are and the way life is, and then we realize there are some changes we need to make. The lifestyle we’ve been living no longer fits.

It’s Friday morning. The weekend is calling your name.Perhaps you feel energized by that and are ready to go to finish this week strong. Or maybe you’re running on fumes by now.No matter what situation you’re in, I think today’s post can be helpful.