What big idea have you been hesitating on? Maybe it’s starting a new project, pivoting in your career, or pursuing a passion you’ve put on hold. Whatever it is, it’s time to take that first step. Quiet the inner critic, embrace the messy journey, and trust that your imperfect progress will lead you where you need to go.

The year has already started and you may have not yet made your resolutions. Don’t worry—you haven’t missed out. In fact, you’ve already started with one resolution: that you will create a list of resolutions!

Can we go back to what we used to be? You don’t have to be older to ask this question. Can you go back to the wild dreamer you once were? Can you accomplish the goals that you once had? Perhaps life and responsibility overcame those dreams and goals. But it’s not all bad, right?

I sometimes have a tendency to have very minor (almost unnoticeable) freak outs when things don’t go the way I want them to. Maybe it’s a person who makes a decision that affects me. Sometimes it’s minor inconveniences. It’s quite often the WiFi. Today I had a rental car break down on me at a remote home in the mountains. It’s too fresh to start getting into it right now. But it resulted a bit of a freak out.

Whatever causes it, I’m slowly learning to turn down the freak out, and I’m beginning to catch myself after the initial, “What the…!”

Patience is the ability to calm ourselves down, step back and take a look at the bigger picture. It’s the realization that what’s happening to me is not God or the universe working against me. Rather, it is part of what’s making me.

I got all dressed up professional-like. It turns out that a t-shirt, shorts and flip flops would have been more appropriate…and more comfortable.

It’s the story of our lives…”It didn’t go as expected.”