If you want to reduce stress and conflict in your life, try this.
If you can’t control “it,”
or, “it”hurt you,
ог, “it” doesn’t bring you
peace, growth or joy,
forgive “it”.
Let it go, and,
Let it be.
Toni O’ Keeffe🔆
~Let it be
Category: acceptance
Give your head, heart and soul a break.
Even if it’s only for a little while.
Unplug from the ugly, dark, messiness in our world, and turn towards what’s light, uplifting, nurturing, grounding, makes you smile and inspires hope.
No one survives long in darkness.
Like all living things, we grow and see things more clearly, when we stand in the light.
(and when we drink water, and have a bit of chocolate, and pet puppies and grow flowers and make music and smile at strangers 😁)
💦 🍫💐🐶🎶
Toni O’Keeffe🔆
The way we look at each other.
What if we looked at each other the same way we look at nature, and marvelled at how beautiful, brilliant, unique, colourful and powerful we all are?
Oh what a happy, peaceful, planet of twinkly, peaceful souls we could be.
You really are one beautiful, bright, brilliant, unique, colourful and powerful individual!!
Oh yes, you are!!
Toni O’KEEFFE🔆
Yes, you can say no!
~ YES you can say NO
How many times have you;
agreed to do favours, taken on extra work, loaned money, attended events, compromised your values, lifestyle or well-being to please others or, avoid conflict?
Of course we make sacrifices or compromises in support of our loved ones. However, when people-pleasing becomes “the norm” and you’re constantly sacrificing your time, resources, or your physical or mental well-being, it might be time to reevaluate the people you loan yourself out too.
Seeking acceptance from others can be exhausting. The right relationship won’t drain you, they should lift you up.
Setting boundaries and saying NO to the things that make you uncomfortable or put you in situations where you’re overextending, overspending, overindulging or make you unwell, is necessary.
Wasting time on things that don’t matter,
and those who don’t care, takes time away from the things and those who do.
So yes, you can say NO!
Toni O’Keeffe🔆
Your journey, your life
Your journey, your life. No one will ever understand or walk your path, better than you.
If you’re living, dressing, or acting a certain way to please others, you’ll constantly be uncomfortable and, unhappy.
To feel fully alive, you have to follow your dreams, set your goals and dress for the life you want to live, not the life others want you to live.
The most uncomfortable, yet necessary thing, you might ever do, is learn how to be comfortable being you.
It might also be, the most beautiful and liberating thing you ever do.
Toni O’KEEFFE🔆
Let neither success or failure go to your head ~
Let neither success or failure go to your head. Both are simply stepping stones guiding you down your path. Neither make you better, less, above or below anyone.
Judging yourself or comparing your successes and failures to others is futile. We don’t compare a cactus to an oak tree, or, poison ivy to a lotus or, a zucchini to bamboo. While they are all plants, each serve a different purpose within the environment they grow. Like plants, we each play different roles within the environments, families and cultures where we grow.
Be grateful for both your successes and your failures. They are the sign posts pointing the way and fuelling your personal growth.
Toni O’Keeffe🌹❤️
Stop doubting yourself ~
Stop doubting yourself and
allow your soul to do, what
she came here to do.
Toni O’KEEFFE 🌹❤️
Let’s accept each other as the beautiful beings we are ~
It’s easy to be in awe of the beauty in nature. Multiple shades of green draped over a forest.
The way bold colours melt together to create a sunrise or sunset. The twinkle of stars, the fragrance of different flowers painted in every colour imaginable. The beauty of ocean waves rolling in and out leaving beautiful polished stones and shells behind. Tall grass dancing with the wind, song birds singing, clouds creating illusions in the sky. We appreciate and love all of it.
What if we looked at each other the same way, in awe of how beautiful, brilliant, colourful, twinkly and different we all are?
If we accepted one another no matter how we looked, sang, danced, rocked or rolled, wow this would be one happy peaceful, planet of twinkly, bright, dancing souls. 🌟
Toni O’KEEFFE 🌹❤️
The Whimsey Angel 