by Marissa Bracke |
It's so easy to lose The Now. What happened yesterday leaves us feeling behind, so we spend time catching up to a goal we project into tomorrow. Or we congratulate ourselves over yesterday's progress until we forget that today even matters. We fret over tomorrow....
by Marissa Bracke |
When we feel busy, our reaction is often to hurry. We have a lot to do, so we try to speed up accordingly. We try to move faster, think quicker, get stuff done more rapidly. Interestingly, the converse is true too: when we hurry, we tend to feel busy. We're running...
by Marissa Bracke |
After moving into my house, there were a lot of boxes to unpack. The sheer number of boxes — not to mention the quantity of stuff inside the boxes — was daunting. Day after day, I'd resolve to unpack the boxes. And day after day, I'd sort of wander around...
by Marissa Bracke |
Some of my best work happens before I know what I'm doing. Since I don't know the “supposed tos,” I am free to be natural, enthusiastic, thoroughly me, listening to and acting from gut instinct. As I start picking up all of the Rules and Shoulds and...
by Marissa Bracke |
We tell the truth we want to believe It's not that we create content with the intention of whitewashing the truth. We just tend to minimize the parts of our experiences that don't align with our beliefs of how things should be or how we see ourselves. It seems like...
