“Like contentment, gratitude is a premeditated, disciplined approach to living — a practice to be nurtured. To live gratitude, to be gracious, means infusing appreciation into everything you can.”
-James Shelley
And so the story becomes our memory, the story gets rehearsed ever more, and the story becomes the thing we tell ourselves the next time we need to make a choice.
If your story isn’t helping you, work to rehearse a new story instead.
Because it’s our narrative that determines who we will become.
Walking and talking are two very great pleasures, but it is a mistake to combine them
If you think you can’t, you won’t. If you’ve already resigned yourself to defeat, you’ll never experience victory.
Friendships aren’t won; they’re made, organically and honestly.