When you believe that your worth or value is tied up in something there is no space to love yourself, let alone love the other person, place, or thing.

This goes for your romantic relationship, your outcomes at work, your personality traits, your children’s happiness, your body, and any other impermenant thing you identify with. You are not any of these things. You are something indescribable.

Space is required for love. Everyone and everything has its own distinct life and beingness. Allow yourself to be separate from those things so you can have enough space to experience your own love. From there, you can choose to extend that love out freely.

There will often be a gap between what you want and what you have.

We know that nature abhors a vacuum, so you must decide what you want to fill that gap with, or it will get filled with something you didn’t choose.

You can either use the gap to inspire you into action right now, or you can use the gap to beat yourself up and play the victim. Our authentic desires are meant to call us into joyful action, not to weigh us down with shoulds.

What action could you take right now that would move you closer to what you want? What if the action was the whole point, not the result?

Your purpose may not be clear to you yet, and it will become clearer and clearer if you want it to and allow it to.

Over time, you will notice there is something you feel more and more called to focus your energy on. This is your purpose, or at least a big part of it. It could be love, creativity, service, discovery, or anything else life-giving.

Your purpose will continue to unfold because life will continue to reveal to you what you value and don’t value, what you believe and what you don’t believe, how you want to feel and how you don’t, what you see is helpful and what isn’t, and what is important to you and what isn’t. Enjoy the discovery of your ever-evolving contribution.

What are you called to focus your energy on now?

You have a genius within you that lives to contribute and elevate. When you take time to create something, whether a piece of writing, a painting, a presentation, a talk, a gathering, new code, or a meaningful conversation, you are giving your genius a way to be realized in the world.

You don’t even have to know what your genius “is” to release it. Just sense what you are drawn to create and let it flow.

What does your genius want to contribute today?

You may not need as much time as you think. You never need precisely what you think. What you need to find your momentum is focus, and focusing on something is different than thinking about it.

Surprise yourself with what you can create by staying in your lane, your zone, your commitment, your courage, your joy, your presence, and your power.

What have you been avoiding because of time, and all it might take is some focused energy?

As human beings, we are meant to use love as our means.

We will do ourselves in if we use fear or division to get things done. Love is the technology we all need to learn to use to create a new future. 

Please don’t wait until you feel inspired to create.

Please don’t wait until you feel happy to create something beautiful. 

Take your power back by creating something with love. The inspiration and happiness will follow. 

To receive what you want, you must be willing to let go of what feels mediocre, safe, and heavy. You are meant to have the next best thing that is waiting for you, yet you will only get there if you practice noticing where fear of the unknown is keeping you holding onto what is weighing you down.

Levity and openness are essential to your growth on all levels. The courage to let go and stay free is a within you if you are willing to go inward for your power.

Stay in it until you get there.

Wishing you were already there doesn’t help. Keep imagining what it will feel like when you get there, and taking the next correct step. Remember, staying in the process is different than waiting for it to be over.

The only way to get there is to stay in it until you get there.

There is no one or nothing to keep up with outside of you. Believing this misconception is at the heart of the depletion and stress we experience.

Instead, there is an essence and energy inside of you to stay connected to. Release the temptation of believing the lie that finally keeping up with it all and keeping up face will make you happy. Discipline yourself over time to keep your focus on your own energy and peace and sourcing your expression from there.

Keep attuning within to help you find the correct expression out. There is nothing to keep up with (if you want to be happy).

It may be because you’ve forgotten to love yourself first.

If loving yourself feels hard some days, especially the days you feel like you should be different than you are, these are the moments to practice loving yourself with sweetness, acceptance, and forgiveness.

Love yourself unconditionally first and foremost, and you will naturally see how to extend your love to others.

If there is an area of your life that feels out of your control, there may be more power available to you there than you think.

Instead of reacting by avoiding it or manipulating it, could you shift from wishing to control to gaining clarity? While you often can’t control the outcome, you can more deeply understand how to respond in creative, helpful ways to what is happening, therefore increasing your likelihood to find a new version of success.

What do you need to see, learn, ask, or discover to gain an new level of clarity?

Is to have the capacity to love. You are sanctified (used for your intended purpose) when you do so.

To feel happier, choose to love yourself and others as soon as you notice any sort of fear or tension move in.

Since you are human, being human will always be the most helpful thing to do.

Is your job. However, so is appreciating things as they are.

You will experience more happiness in your life when you commit to doing both of these things no matter what, and surround yourself with people who share your commitment.

Feedback without appreciation is a drag. Appreciation without working towards improving what’s important is unfulfilling in the long run. Focus on both with other people who are equally as invested in gratitude and growth and enjoy the ease of true collaboration and creativity.

When something drains your energy, it is probably best to stop spending time on it if possible. Wherever you feel drained, you are likely a drain to others.

You are meant to spend your life doing what you are passionate about. Not only will this uplift you, but it will also uplift others.

How might you get support with things that drain your energy, or how could you remove them altogether?

If you are feeling stuck, let love help you see an easy way forward. Then love yourself enough to go for it.

If you are feeing fearful, let love help you remember you are way bigger than your outcomes, and that your fulfillment lives in your courageous action and not in your result.

If you are feeling resigned, let love restore you to your purpose, which is to love. Let your simple and renewed purpose give you renewed meaning.

No matter the block, love is the path.

Is the song that kept running through my head on repeat in my meditation today. Because my kids have been listening to it to on repeat all week.

This is a reminder that not everything you are exposed to during (the majority of) your waking hours is vitally important or true, and it will likely end up taking up lots of space in your thinking mind regardless.

Notice. Then choose the inobvious.

Not every thought you have is worth acting on. Most of them probably aren’t.

Your personal power lives just as much in your ability to do nothing about it than to do something about it.

Which type of thoughts would you like to practice letting be?

Your purpose is big and powerful enough to transcend specifics. Meaning no matter what changes or circumstances arise, your purpose will always be there as a gift to guide you.

Your greatest purpose in life doesn’t have to do with the skills you have developed or identify with. It isn’t limited or defined by your vocation, either, even if you are exceptionally talented at your work.

Your true purpose is more like one of the following:

• To create

• To love

• To help people see how powerful they are

• Divine Love

• Connection

• Discovering the undiscovered

• Remember you are blessed, and be a blessing

• Etc.

Your purpose is not something you need to achieve. It is something you can rely on to help you navigate anything.

“Because I should,” “Because I have to,” or “Because more is automatically better” are not winning strategies for happiness or impact.

Some examples of some strategies to shift into when you notice you are in a draining or restraining one:

• Because I want to

• To bring me joy

• To bring joy to someone else

• To help someone solve a problem

• To help myself solve a problem

• To create connection

• To steward a life-giving mission or legacy

• Etc

One of the essential habits you can build to help you execute strategies that contribute to your happiness rather than detract from it is cross-checking your motivations when you feel pressured or resistant to take action that you “should” take. The most significant shift can come from noticing tiny leaks in your energy.