Don’t be afraid to say what you want to say. Don’t be afraid to do what you want to do or express what you want to express. You have the same rights as every other person on the planet to do as you please.

Explore every single dream you have. Go after them. There will be terrors in your head that will try to stop you, but please be aware that they are no more than shadows with no real power over you unless you give that power to them.

I used to say “it depends” a lot. I used this response as a gray area where I could go to justify the exceptions to the rules I believed in. However, I’m realizing now that this means that I don’t truly believe what I think I believe.

I didn’t know what to write about today, so I decided to just start writing.

Lately, I’ve started to believe that it’s always a thought what stops me from doing what I want to do, which, in this case, was to write a post.

My son went to basketball practice today for the first time in his life. All week he had been very excited about it. He was counting the days. Asking me every morning how many days were left until the practice meet.

Unfortunately, he didn’t like it. He didn’t enjoy what the coach prepared for them. He doesn’t want to go to practice again.

Yesterday, I was listening to an interview with Dr. George Pransky in which he talked about relationships.

There’s a moment in the interview when he mentions that we don’t know how to get over bad feelings, that we have it all mixed up.

A few years ago, I learned about something called “The Three Principles.” Syd Banks, a ninth-grade-educated welder, first articulated these principles in the early 1970s and claims that they explain the entire range of human behavior and feeling states.

Yesterday, I read one of the most powerful questions I’ve come across in a while (apparently, Byron Katie used to ask this of people during her seminars):

It’s so difficult to realize that all we have is now.

Giving yourself permission is a powerful tool.