Do you see the signs around you? Or are you moving so swiftly through life that you rarely notice the signs at all? It’s not too late. Take a moment right now and get present with what life has to offer. You won’t regret it.

Even when life offers us continuous gray skies…we can be okay. We just need a few tools and then remember to use them.

What if the story you are telling yourself, about what you have been doing, or what you should be doing, or why you haven’t been doing so many things, isn’t at all about the overwhelm that lies ahead? What if it is something completely different?

Empty spaces. I used to count the empty spaces. A continuous checklist of who wasn’t here. Analyzing and over analyzing the reasons given and wondered who just didn’t want to be here. Or rather, who didn’t pick me, who else would feel not chosen, and how I would smooth out everyone else’s feeling around this madness in my mind. Was that ever my job or just an over embellished sense of self that I could make others feel better?

Saying yes to life is about having an excitement down deep that is constantly stirring...not because you know something great IS going to happen, but because you are open to the possibility of what will happen next, and are hopeful about it being great. 

Getting honest with yourself means lowering your shoulders and acknowledging what is hard, what is frustrating, what is out of your comfort zone and then taking a good look at where you could use some support. Getting honest does not mean defeat. It does not mean failure. It is just what is true right now, in this moment. The longer we deny what is true, the longer the moment will last. 

It never seems to fail, after several hours or even days of life rolling along smoothly, happily even, out of nowhere, the clouds return.

Why does my life constantly have this way of rolling…good, then bad, then good…it makes it impossible to even enjoy the good at all!

While some may think that productivity is just a matter of working hard and having discipline, this isn’t necessarily the case. In fact, there are key habits that differentiate between productive people and less productive people, and not practicing these habits naturally leads to decreased productivity, no matter who you are.

Whether you prefer a mess or can’t seem to do it any other way, your are suffering from the consequences of it. You may not realize it in the moment or even now as you begin to think about it, but research supports this and so do it!