Morning Mantra: “If you’re always having to be the bigger person, maybe you shouldn’t be around little minded people.”

Too often “being the bigger person“ is misinterpreted to mean we must put up with poor treatment from others, or to accept scraps from their table. You don’t have to be the bigger person if someone is mistreating you, and does so regularly, it’s time to move on.

You don’t have to be the more empathetic, more compassionate, more understanding, or more mindful person. You do not have to try to understand their behavior. What you need to do is disengage and take space away from it.

It’s not your job to make other people feel more comfortable about treating you poorly.
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Morning Mantra: “People who run from their own feelings will run from yours too.”

People who lack accountability will often avoid responsibility for the relationship and shift the blame to you. Manipulation is when they get upset with you every time you tell them what they did that hurt you. Because they lack accountability, they will create a made-up narrative about you so they don’t feel bad about themselves.

Remember, it is not your responsibility to teach them how to apologize, how to take accountability, or how to treat you with respect. These are basic qualities they should already possess before entering a relationship.

Learn to say, “That’s on you.”
“Your behavior is on you.”
“The choices you make are on you.”
“The way you live is on you.”
“The pain you cause is on you.”

Stop absorbing the pain of other people and recognize what belongs to you and what doesn’t. They have no incentive to change as long as you tolerate and enable their deficits at your expense.

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Morning Mantra: “When we avoid difficult conversations we are not keeping the peace, we are keeping the tension.”

We tend to not have difficult conversations because we want to avoid making things worse, or we are worried about hurting the relationship. But, when we avoid difficult conversations, we trade short term discomfort for long-term dysfunction.

Healthy adults talk about problems, they look for solutions. When people hurt us, we communicate with compassion, directly and tactfully. We believe in our truth and understand that no connection will last if people hold in all their anger, pain, resentment, and misunderstandings.

People avoid uncomfortable conversations to “keep the peace “ but peace isn’t the goal of a relationship, love is. And when we love someone, we have the hard conversation in service of that love.

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Quotes: Sylvester McNutt III

Morning Mantra: “Hindsight happens after the lesson.”

You can think about the decisions you made and turn them over in your mind 1 million times. You can play out possible scenarios, but really when it comes down to it, you have to live with it and move forward. Every decision brings with it some good, some bad, and some luck. All bring lessons to be learned.

It’s easy to look back at an something and see a better choice or pathway because you already learned from your experience. Don’t let new wisdom lead you to condemn yourself. You did the best you could with what you knew at the time.

Yes, some of your decisions may hurt people you love, or change the trajectory of your life. But why would you beat yourself up for not knowing the lesson before you learned it? You are only adding shame to a bad decision, it can't change the outcome.
Forgive yourself and move forward with your new information. Do better.

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Quotes: Doe Zantamata

Morning Mantra: “Sometimes you don’t feel the weight of something you’ve been carrying until you feel the freedom of its release.”

This year, I will learn to step away from people in spaces where I don’t feel valued. I will stop over explaining, forcing connections, and seeking validation from others.
I will trust my intuition, set boundaries, and remove my energy without guilt.

I realize that protecting my peace is essential, and that choosing myself is the greatest act of self-love.

In the process of letting go you will lose many things, but you will find out what and who really matters.

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Quotes: Herman Hessee

Morning Mantra: “It’s the sweet, simple things in life that are the real ones after all.”

For the longest time, it feels like I’ve been trying to make sense of life. But now I see, there’s no sense to be made, only life to be lived.

For the longest time I was searching for this grand purpose to my life, to give myself a reason for being here. But now I realize that life isn’t a set purpose to fulfill, life isn’t important checklists to complete, life isn’t doing as much as it is being. Life is a brief moment to breathe, to love, to be kind, to feel.

Life isn’t in the huge accomplishments, the devastating disappointments, that is only a part of life and if that is all you focus on, you’ll miss most of it.

Life is in all the simple, little things that we so often overlook while we are chasing the big things or running from our failures. I wish it hadn’t taken me so long to realize this. I wonder how much life I missed?

Be here, be present, embrace your journey. There is so much beauty and wonder to be found right where you are. There is so much living to be done.

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Quotes: Laura Ingalls Wilder, George Harrison

Morning Mantra: “Your biggest opponent isn’t the other person, it's your own reflection.”

The goal to self-improvement is not to always be trying to be better than others. The goal should be to be better than your previous self. This can be difficult when you feel your self-worth is determined by how you compare.

Remember, self-worth is determined by you. How YOU feel about yourself. There are things you can do and say to improve yourself and improve your self-worth. These are not based on your looks, your weight, your wealth, or job title, but on the person you ARE.
I like to give myself reminders of how I want to be. I repeat these things each day.

"Keep my anger from becoming meanness.
Keep my sorrow from collapsing into self-pity.
Keep my heart soft enough to keep breaking.
Keep my anger turned towards justice, not cruelty.
Keep me fiercely kind.
Remind me that all of this, every bit of it, is for love. "

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Morning Mantra: “Don’t try to change people. Make a realistic decision about where they fit into your life based on who they are, not who you want them to be.”

This is a tough one to hear and to learn but you have to stop trying to change someone who doesn’t want to change.

Stop giving chances to someone who abuses your forgiveness.
Stop walking back to the place where your heart ran from.
Stop trusting their word and ignoring their actions.
Stop giving your all to a person who gives you nothing.
Stop fighting for a relationship when you’re standing in the rain alone.
Stop breaking your own heart.

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