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When we focus on outcomes, activities that we normally love become chores. I love writing, but it stops being fun when I mechanically view it as a means to more pageviews, higher conversion rates, or increased social media shares. An outcome-focused mind is an impatient mind.

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‘Letting go,’ is not a word, a tool, or a process. Sometimes it becomes a handicap, a baggage. Because, the more we try to let go, the more it stays with us.

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I was never prepared for us to become you and me. But here we are.

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That’s all we can do. Keep doing the work. Find the thing that makes us feel most alive, and do that.

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It makes you angry that you still care. You hate that you still wonder if he misses you at all. If he regrets anything at all. You want to be the kind of girl that can flip her hair and the boy and not be bothered. But you are human.

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Isn’t it crazy that in this world of millions and millions of people, we’re all fighting invisible battles in our heads?

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It’s being careless for a moment and loving yourself for it.
It is learning to love again.
It is crying out for your mother.
It is crying for yourself.
It is forgiveness.

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As we wait on God, we can be certain that He has already prepared that beforehand.

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My favorite writer on writing died. William Zinsser, author of “On Writing Well” recently passed away. He was 92 years old. Was his book any good? I don’t know. It sold 1.5 million copies.

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It’s interesting to see just how much of her routine was based on actual optical illusions