What are Your Building Blocks?

The most important person to foster a healthy relationship with is yourself. It’s easy to spend a lot of time and energy fostering relationships with others and overlook the one with yourself. When you have a healthy relationship with yourself, it makes all other relationships easier. What building blocks are you using to foster a relationship with yourself?

It can be very easy to let the to-do list of tasks guide your day. What if there was a shift in perspective? What if you allowed your mindfulness to guide your day and the to-do list to simply exist? It may seem like a hair-splitting twist of semantics, which it is, but it also offers a fresh way to experience your day.

Take the first step. What do you have to lose? What is really at stake? Ego? Fear? Pride?

Regardless of what you want to create, you have to take the first step.

Have you ever done a little soul searching about whether or not you live of life of integrity? Do you strive to do right or be right? Do you choose integrity in certain situations or at all times? Does your life model the values you believe in? Where is the dividing line between discernment and integrity?

When I reflect on these questions, I can see moments of fear winning over integrity.

What does it mean to nurture your genius?
Better yet, do you believe you are a genius?
One definition of genius from the Merriam-Webster dictionary is: extraordinary intellectual power especially as manifested in creative activity.
So, let me ask again, are you a genius?

I am continually being reminded about the need to pay attention to where my energy and attention go. My mindfulness is my responsibility. I get to choose where my attention goes and redirect as needed.

Pausing to reflect on the day is a powerful tool to foster awareness. It doesn’t matter when you pause or if you choose to pause multiple times throughout the day—simply pause. I