“Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report written on birds that he’d had three months to write, which was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books about birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him put his arm around my brother’s shoulder, and said, “Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.” – Anne Lamott

There are some psychologists who believe over-thinkers to have highly specialized brains; their minds are great at solving complex problems. Where most people give up easily enough, they keep thinking and trying to find a solution. They spend more time on a certain task that anyone else.

But over-thinkers often get stuck. Their minds keep trying to fix something that can’t be fixed, no matter what. And this slowly kills them inside. Continue reading →

Focus. The ability to do what has to be done, even when you don’t feel like it.
To do the work.

To enjoy the process.

The ability to drown out the inner critic, to ignore the naysayers.

Focus.

What you focus on, happens. What you expect to see, that’s what will be in front of your eyes.

Life is a mirror.

We are all our own prophets.

Our stories about who we are and what we are capable of influence what we do.

As they say,  there are no hopeless situations, only people who think hopelessly.