Tag: inspiration

  • A GOOD DAY TO BE TIRED

    “Hot Take: It’s a gift to be tired.” – Hannah McPherson

    Today, I find myself alive and energized. I am grateful for these moments.

    I have no doubts that later in the day, I’ll hit a wall and be tired. Life tends to wear us out.

    I had a friend who was telling me she was tired; not sleepy but in her being, that life had just taken her for a ride, and she was feeling the effects. I resonated with that.

    However, my advice to her was that it was a gift to be tired. I think Earth does that to us. Being “beings” is exhausting. There is a cost of energy that we must pay to participate in existence.

    Whether the things you’re going through in life are good or bad, we’re all paying the energetic price.

    I’d like to open up a framework in your mind to consider, no matter the way that life is treating you, you can be grateful to be tired.

    Someone who is having a really hard time might think I’m insane to say so, but hear me out:

    Tiredness can be evidence that you have lived and that is the whole point.

    From the good times to the bad, if you are living, you are doing something right. Tiredness does not mean that you have failed. It’s quite the opposite actually. If you are still here to be tired, then you have made it through whatever it is life has given you.

    Tiredness is an unavoidable part of life.

    Yet, if you don’t fight it, and allow it to be part of your being’s experience in this life, if you choose to be grateful for it, then the path to healing, the path to energy opens up.

    We have ways of replenishing ourselves: rest (first and foremost), self-care (whatever that looks like for you), relaxation, meditation, comforting ourselves with positive affirmations, breathing exercises, etc.

    So, being tired is an opportunity to replenish. It’s your body telling you it’s time to take some time to do what makes you energized.

    For me, this is being creative. For me, this is feeding my soul. For me, this is a requirement of everyday life. Physical, Mental, and Spiritual Health is the most important part of my day, everyday.

    Because being tired is the cost of life, taking time for our health trinity is the currency we pay it with, and it is a gift to be able to even transact on this system at all.

  • WAKING UP CREATIVE

    “There is no better way to start the day than being creative.” – Hannah McPherson

    Here I sit, in a space surrounded by my art. I have a cup of coffee and a candle lit. I have a new website and a dream to keep me inspired.

    My dreams are like stories. I will not share them unless they are especially interesting, because most of them are random and personal. However, I will say that I keep a dream journal.

    I keep many kinds of journals.

    Before this site, I would keep all my morning musings to myself.

    Today, I’ll share it with you.

    Kindly Keep On Going

    “I’d like to say,

    there is a way,

    to make all your dreams

    come true.

    But the best of these,

    if you please,

    is to simply just be you.”

    – HM.

    I’ve designed all these graphics myself, and I’ve always been quite fond of Photoshop’s overlay features. I love what it does to the lights in the image. My corporate day job, which I have to get ready for shortly, does not have a brand standard that allows early 2000’s design styles, unfortunately. (I don’t blame them) – However, since it’s my intellectual brand I will do as I please.

    I’d like to make a closing note here about doing what you love while doing what you have to.

    Would I love an infinite amount of time to write, instead of having to squeeze it into my morning and afternoon routines? Yes.

    Yet, the bills must be paid and the house taken care of and social life must continue and family is important (even chosen family), and so through the hustle and bustle of productivity culture, of balancing it all and doing everything – make sure you’re making time for your dreams.

    Whether that is your real-life goals, or your actual sleeping movie shows, there is something to be said about following your hearts intention.