Sunday Thinking ― 6.15.25

"The breath is your power. Return to it whenever the world feels unsteady or unsafe."

June 15, 2025

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"Everything heals and grows when it is loved well because everything reveals its true and whole nature to us when we care enough about it to see the perfection within it. Things tend to meet us at the level of our expectation of them. When we decide to look at the ugliest parts of ourselves as the ones most deserving of love, they become the avenues to the deepest and fullest experience of being loved. We come to find that the purpose was never to reach a completed state and then allow the floodgates to open; rather, to open the floodgates and let them fill us up from the inside out. To show us that cheap love walks beside us at our easiest, but deep love finds us at our lowest, and brings us back out into the light."

― Brianna Wiest, The Pivot Year

I. Be Here. Be There Tomorrow.

It’s kind of crazy when you think about it, that today is the tomorrow that you worried about yesterday.

  • And here you sit, worrying about tomorrow but making it through today. Take that in for a second.

  • Be here. Be there tomorrow. Just let what’s going to happen, happen.

  • Do your best to stay strong. You did it yesterday and the day before.

Keep doing it. Proud of you.

Source: Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

II. What You’re Not Here to Carry

5 things you are not responsible for…

  1. You are not responsible for other people's happiness. Let Them be unhappy.

  2. You are not responsible for managing someone else's emotions. Let Them feel how they feel.

  3. You are not responsible for proving your worth to people who don't see it. Let Them underestimate you.

  4. You are not responsible for meeting everyone's expectations. Let Them be disappointed.

  5. You are not responsible for rescuing people from their problems. Let Them learn from life.

Stop wasting your time and energy on things you can't control (like other people's moods, opinions, or actions) and focus on the one thing you can control: You.

Source:  Mel Robbins, The Let Them Theory

III. The Masterpiece In Progress

Your greatest project is yourself.

  • Not your brand. Not your business. Not your bank account. You.

  • The way you think. The way you respond. The way you show up when no one is watching.

  • The habits you build. The mindset you strengthen. The healing you choose to do even when it hurts.

Everything you want starts with who you are evolving into. So invest in yourself. Study yourself. Challenge yourself. Build discipline. Build character. Build peace.

The better you get, the better everything around you becomes. You are the foundation. You are the project. You are the masterpiece in progress.

Source: Thomas Harden Jr. via @leadersonlyco

IV. Question

In the midst of all that’s unfolding around me, what is one thing I can return to that reminds me who I am and what matters most?

V. This Week, I Will

  • Choose presence over panic, anchoring myself in what I can control rather than what overwhelms me.

  • Remind myself that clarity often comes not from doing more—but from being still long enough to hear what truly matters.

  • Let go of the need to fix everything and instead focus on how I show up—with peace, intention, and integrity.

  • Protect my energy by not confusing urgency with importance, and noise with truth.

  • Come back home to myself—through breath, through solitude, through remembering that chaos outside does not have to mean chaos within.

The Last Words…

"Breadcrumbs. That’s how it all unfolds. Not through five-year plans. But through whispers. Curiosities. Tiny nudges that say: “You know what would be fun...?” That’s the doorway. It’s never been about figuring it all out. It’s about following the shimmer. Taking one aligned step—not because it guarantees a result, but because it feels alive. The outcome is not the purpose, the feeling is. The resonance. The joy. The yes in your belly. You were never meant to strategize your way into purpose. You were meant to dance your way into it. One breadcrumb at a time. So when your soul says: “Turn left here. Try that. Call them. Make the thing...” Listen. That’s the map. That’s the magic. That’s the moment the universe moves in your favor―because you were guided by your soul."

― Cathy Heller, Abundant Ever After

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