Category: Personal Growth

~ You can turn the page

by The Whimsey Angel, posted in follow your path, growth, Life Journey, Personal Growth, wisdom

You’re allowed to change your mind, your perspective, your point-of-view, your direction and your goals, as frequently as you need too.

Those who commit to personal growth, often change their minds based on new wisdom, life experience and insight. This doesn’t make these individuals indecisive or wishy-washy. It means they’re flexible, adaptable, and means they possess a healthy willingness to evolve into better versions of themselves.

When we live mindfully we develop clarity on what we need in life, what we need to let go of, walk away from and what we want to walk towards.

At any point, YOU can; turn the page, take a new path, change your mind, change your goals, change direction, or, change who you spend your time with. When we’re learning and growing, that’s what we do; we change.

Toni O’Keeffe🔆

Dream anyway

by The Whimsey Angel, posted in be you, follow your path, Life Journey, Personal Growth, Reflection, Toni O’KEEFFE

Not every race will be won,
Not every dream will come true,
Not everyone you love, will love you back.
Not every goal will be reached.

Run anyway,
Dream anyway,
Love anyway.
Reach anyway

Every step in the wrong direction,
every dream that fades,
every love thats lost,
every unfulfilled goal.
puts you on the path towards
what and who is meant for you.

Nothing you do is ever wasted, nothing.
There is wisdom, lessons and growth in everything, even the most painful of things.

Toni O’KEEFFE 🌹❤️

OK, you might be a little bit messy today.

by The Whimsey Angel, posted in Life Journey, Personal Growth, self acceptance, Toni O’KEEFFE

OK, you might be a little bit messy today.
You might even feel bloated, gassy, cranky and a little less than your awesome self.
But listen, even on the messiest, most uncomfortable, baddest of bad hair days, you’re still a beautiful, fricken’ miracle, capable of achieving BIG ( and I mean HUGE) awesomeness!

Wear that mess of fuzz like a crown and
go make some magic!

Toni O’KEEFFE 🌹❤️

We don’t arrive to this life adventure knowing it all. If we did, what would be the point?

by The Whimsey Angel, posted in Life Journey, Personal Growth, Reflection, Toni O’Keeffe

We don’t arrive to this life adventure knowing it all. If we did, what would be the point?

I remember this chaotic, impatient, awkward, young girl, tripping over life. You might remember a similar girl or boy from the early days of your own life story.

When I reflect back on this girl, I do so with such compassion and love, because I realize now;
~ How hard she worked to find her voice and to be heard.
~ How she struggled to find the values to guide her.
~ How desperately she wanted to find her purpose.
~ How determined she was in her quest to find her place in the world and find her tribe,
And
~ How passionately she craved, and still craves, authentic human connections.
Back “then” she couldn’t even describe what this craving was.

I hope you see and admire the younger version of yourself the same way. Be gentle with, and forgive yourself for the mistakes you think you’ve made, because none of it was a mistake. That younger you, was just trying to figure life out, searching, learning and growing like we all are.

Wherever you are along this life journey, is exactly where you’re meant to be. Be grateful that your younger self got you this far, now, keep on going💖.

Toni O’KEEFFE 🌹❤️

Let the light in ~

by The Whimsey Angel, posted in follow your path, Life Journey, Personal Growth, Spiritual

If there’s too many trees in a forest, none of them can grow to their full potential. They block the light from one another and nothing new can take root. Life can also be like that.

When we’re surrounded by the wrong people, too much stuff, noise, clutter, negativity, busyness, even our own bad habits, we get distracted and can’t see or feel the light that’s trying to find us.

It’s okay;

  • to remove the people and things that no longer fit into the life you want to live,
  • to turn off the noise, including the news, the gossip, the politics and the negative chatter from others,
  • to let go of any negative opinions you have about yourself, your potential and your worthiness.

When we remove the things that no longer fit into our lives, we realize many of the things we’ve been looking for were always there, hidden in the shadows of what had to go.

Create the “space between the trees”, so the light can shine in and you can grow the life you want to live.

Toni O’KEEFFE 🌹❤️

You can move mountains

by The Whimsey Angel, posted in learning, life challenges, Life Journey, Personal Growth, Reflection, Toni O’KEEFFE

When I was a child and became overwhelmed with any large task or homework assignment, my father would say “pull one weed at a time.” He was referring to his approach to weeding the garden.
If he looked at all the weeding to be done as one large task, it would’ve been overwhelming and never gotten done, so he approached it one weed at a time.

Fast forward to today, I was out walking and came across two young men standing in front of an enormous mountain of rocks.
I stopped to chat as they Ooh’d and awed over my little dog and I asked them what they were doing.
They were building a stone wall.
The rock for the wall had been delivered, but had been dumped in the wrong spot, now they had to move it.
One of the young men jokingly asked me if I knew how to move a mountain?
“Yup” I said, “one weed at a time.”
They were both confused, so I explained the analogy and they got it.

Whatever lies before you, take it one minute, one hour, one step, one day, one page, one breath or one weed at a time.
In fact, you can move mountains,
when you move them, one stone at a time.

Toni O’KEEFFE ~🌹❤️