` Quotes: You make your plans & God directs your steps. – The Bible If you keep on believing, a dream that you wish will come true. – Cinderella Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect […]
Tag: don’t give up
{you can do it}
inspiration moments: school teacher turned multimillionaire author There’s a secret in life most people don’t realize: people who change the world make it big because they refuse to give up on their dreams. They choose to believe that they can give up the good and go for the even better. Many household names, people who went […]

Defining and Finding Purpose
As some of you know, I got out of a very icky situation just over 4 years ago that I consider to be a cult. When I left, I was afraid, really really really afraid. I was conditioned to believe that I needed to be in that group to function spiritually, to be on the […]

..Don’t Let Fear Win..
This past year, I’ve written a lot about failure. I’m not sure if you’ve noticed, but it’s been a theme in the quotes I post and the blogs I write. Why? Well actually its because I am scared to death of it. By researching, reading, and writing about it, I am attempting to calm my […]

The Best is Yet to Come
The Little Things If you haven’t noticed, I am the type to continually ask myself, “What does it all mean?” Part of me thinks that there no meaning, and that we have the ability to make life what we want it to be for us. That is an important part. You can miss out on […]

Haters Gonna Hate
Remember the mean girls from High School? Remember thinking that you would move on, grow up, and not have to deal with clicks or drama anymore? News Flash: Mean girls exist at EVERY age. I was once in a situation where I was thrown into a group of individuals who I was to travel along side. […]

If You Can Dream It. . .
I am embarking on another world-traveling journey this week – to Israel. It is my heart and deepest desire to travel the world. Because of this, it felt appropriate to reflect on how far I’ve come. I added some posts from the distant painful past to the bottom of the page, but thought I would […]

The Train
Reduce Your Stress and Enjoy Your Life Have you ever heard the story of the train? In the story, the people on this fast moving, roller-coaster like train intend to exit the train when they reach this city or that city. They say they will get off the train to enjoy a city and stay awhile, but […]

Quarter-Life-Crisis
What To Do When You Don’t Know What To Do Next Coffee shop – 2 am – studying – having a mini-quarter life crisis. This isn’t like the full-on quarter-life-crisis of 2008 in which I rearranged my entire life and moved across the country to pursue my education (best decision of my life). This […]

Life-Lessons
Grab the Keys and Get in the Back Seat! My car died Monday night. It decided enough was enough – 189,131 miles was all it was able to give to me and krrrr-plunk, she was gone. No warning was given. She gave up the good fight. So I, of course, decided to improvise! […]