Train yourself to crave experience, not perfection. Let go of the idea that you have to be the best at something to do it. “Do something today that will bring you joy even if you know you will not do it well. “Your life is your own, and your work is your own, and those things can be anything you want them to be. “Think about the word spell – meaning “a state of enchantment” or “a brief period of time.” When a chapter of your life ends, you may feel that a spell has been broken you may be disenchanted, but new magic is coming. You can’t know what will happen, but you can ready yourself. The best indicator of future peace is peace in the present. “The best way to prepare for the future is to be present. Call in whatever you want – spirit, life force, the universe, the soul, G-d – but know it’s there. Ignore the static and turn your dial to a kinder frequency. “Choose your words with a jeweler’s eye, considering their facets, their clarity, their ability to reflect light. If you feel a little weary, a little ragged, that’s okay that’s how soul hangovers feel. KEEP MOVING.” Be kind to yourself and others You are not what others say about you, good or bad, or what you say about yourself. The word amateur comes from the Latin amare, meaning “to love.” Let yourself be a beginner, an amateur – someone who is learning to live a new life, someone who loves it for its potential.

“Do not hold yourself to some impossible standard. “Consider that your ideas about happiness – what you think it should look like, feel like, entail, provide – might be hindering your experience of it.

Be proud: you are not only traveling a new road but making it as you go. KEEP MOVING.” Set aside expectations “Put one foot in front of the other and believe that the road will be there. Take one step today – then repeat, repeat, repeat. KEEP MOVING.” Now begin answering that question with action. “Ask yourself what you would do if you had an unlimited supply of both courage and hope. These are some of my favorites to keep us moving forward: Have Courage Like many of us, when I first saw a headline for Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity and Change by Maggie Smith, I thought the author was Dame Maggie Smith, who played the Dowager Countess of Grantham on Downton Abbey. The actual author and poet, Maggie Smith, is known for “Good Bones,” which she describes as something that “sprung from a mother’s worry about what’s hard and unfair in the world, and yet wanting it to be a good place for my kids to live in.” She wrote Keep Moving as she was getting divorced, to “pep-talk myself through this really dark time,” she explained to NPR.ĭame Maggie Smith had many of the best lines in the Downton Abbey series including one of my favorites: “Marriage is a long business.” Poet Maggie Smith has many of her own great lines of wisdom to help us navigate through to our best selves. I encourage you to read the book.

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