Find writing success in small, daily actions
It is a universal law that you must express your power
or the power will turn against you. What do you choose?
—Michele Jamal, Shape Shifters:
Shaman Women in Contemporary Society
The above is one of my favorite quotes because it reminds me to express my power or be my “gift” each and every day. We all have gifts—a light that we uniquely bring to the world—but we don’t always display or use our gifts.
Recently, I was reading “The Compound Effect” by Darren Hardy, the publisher of Success magazine, and realized how easy it is to ride along in life and not make the daily little choices we need to make in order to allow our gifts to shine. I spent much of my early adult life just going with the flow and letting others make choices for me. Because I wasn’t proactively living my life, life was living me.
You know what I mean and, if you don’t, here are some examples:
- Did I really inhale that bag of potato chips without even thinking about it? Read more