The mind
There is nothing scarier than the idea of leaving what is good for the hope of what may be exceptional. What you do not realize, at that moment, is that you have already decided. The path forward is now about becoming comfortable with that choice, through all the mental gymnastics, justifications, explanations, and processing that it may bring. In
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Consider, instead, how you might be pleasantly surprised, how it may be easier than you think, that there might be some vital lesson or realization attempting to emerge through your current experience. Consider, instead, how infrequently the worst case scenario has ever come to pass, and then consider how ruminating on it isn’t protecting you from
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It’s time to learn how to use what you already have, and be as you really are. It’s time to stop waiting for some future scenario to bring your dreams into the light, but to dig them out from beneath your fear and begin.
Brianna Wiest • The Pivot Year
Nobody has everything, but everyone has something—focus on your something. If you really start to pay attention, you will be amazed at what you find.
Brianna Wiest • The Pivot Year
Nothing feels all the way right at the beginning, because nothing is completely familiar at the beginning. What you often don’t account for is that your sense of comfort and correctness tends to be rooted in familiarity. The question is not whether something makes you feel immediately as though you’re unquestionably fated for it, but whether or not
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You become who you really are when you start allowing the brightest parts of you to shine without apology, when you begin to realize there is no substitute for your own love finally flowing through your own life.
Brianna Wiest • The Pivot Year
Until you confront the shadow of your own self-disapproval, you will always be gazing out at the world in fear of who might not love you completely, who might draw your awareness to the part of you that already believes you are unworthy of being appreciated, of being fully and truly known. You must find a way to make peace with yourself, even if
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It turns out the real you is a quilt, made up of the light and the dark. The life you’ve lived in sunshine and your shadow life, stretching underneath the surface of your mind like a deep underwater world, exerting invisible power. You are a living, breathing story made up of the moments in time you cherish, all strung together, and those you hide.
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Happiness is not finding success by a certain time, but finding something you love so much time itself seems to disappear.