Better Choices

(Picture from Iyanla Vanzant's page and her tweet is what inspired this DP)

Life is the sum of all your choices.  

~Albert Camus

Better Choices
Often times you see a parent or teacher putting a child in "timeout" because they were making a choice that was either hurting them or someone else either physically or emotionally.  Well, it's not just children that need a space to reflect, adults need one to ~ maybe even more than kids!  When you do something wrong, do you step away and take the time to think about what you could have done differently?  Do you apologize when you should?  Do you change your approach?  Do you learn and move forward or do you get stuck in the past?  The more we can start to recognize when we need a timeout and give ourselves the chance to reflect and hit the reset button, the more we can start to make better choices every single day in our lives.

Passion

Chase down your passion like it's the last bus of the night.

~Terri Guillemets

Passion
What are you passionate about? What in life motivates you? What is your driving force or do you even know?  Now is the time to figure it out! When you know what your passionate about, then you can focus and align yourself with a goal and there will be no stopping you from being successful. Your talents and skills are constantly tugging at you to pay attention. The more you can believe in them and in your passion, the more connected you will be to everything! Don't just do things because you feel stuck, you are afraid or feel you have to. It's time to ignite that fire within and follow that path.

Choices

Scars are tattoos with better stories.  

~From a Toyota advertisement

Choices
Every day you are filled with choices from what to wear to who you interact with.  Decisions are being made constantly that project you on many different paths.  Have you ever stopped to think about how your choices are really creating your future though?  Whether big choices like taking a new job or smaller choices like picking out what socks to wear, every choice you make is creating your story.  So what are you trying to tell that world then?  What are you creating for yourself and everyone else to see?  Are the choices you are making truly reflect your character or even better, your soul?  Before you make another decision, take the time to stop and reflect if that choice is really what you want to put on your storyboard of life.

Joy

You were born with wings, 

why prefer to crawl through life? 

~Rumi

Joy
Every single day there is something that happens, no matter how "small", that can bring you a bundle of joy. That's right, a bundle.  Joy is endless.  It doesn't have boundaries.  From something that makes you smile to something that makes you cry from laughing so hard, joy is all around us.  Even in our darkest moments there is some joy to be found.  Don't let today go by without stopping to acknowledge that which makes your heart sing.  If we always looked for the joy and not the fear, your world would open up beyond your imagination.    

Lean Back

You block your dream when you allow your fear 

to grow bigger than your faith.  

~Mary Manin Morrissey

Lean Back

When a stressful situation (or any situation that makes you feel uneasy) finds itself swirling around you ~ lean back and let the energy keep moving on by you.  If you don't let it pass, you will absorb this energy and it will bring you down.  You won't be able to focus on a solutions when stricken with fear or anxiety.  Once you learn to lean back and let it pass by you instead of sticking to you, you can then see it for what it is and with it, a clear solution and a path to proceed forward on.  

Unagi

[Episode of Friends: Rachel and Phoebe have Ross pinned to the ground after he tried to scare them back] 

Rachel: Say it. Say we are unagi. 

Ross: It's not something you are, it's something you have! 

Unagi
Did you ever have a connection with someone that knows what you are thinking before you even do?  They seem to connect to you on a level beyond the surface.  They know when you are truly happy or upset.  They call you when you are not feeling up to facing the world just because they "sensed" that something was wrong.  These are our Earth Angels.  They are in our lives to teach us that not everything can be seen.  Sometimes we need to believe in the power of connections no matter where we are or what we are doing.  Cherish these relationships for what they are, a way to bring us closer to each other, ourselves and the universe.

This Daily Pearl is dedicated to my Unagi partner in crime, Lisa Slomin.  Thank you for always being one step ahead of me and looking out for me always.