‘In the midst of a difficult or challenging situation, don’t shut down, open up! Just when you think you can’t take any more, do any more, be any more, don’t give up, open up! When it feels like you are about to fall off a cliff, jump! When it looks like everything is falling apart, start rebuilding from the rubbbish and remnants of what is left. The only way to get to the next level is to go there.’- Iyanla Vanzant, Until Today!
The only way to get to the next level is to go there.’
Challenging times will come. Things will get tough. People will reject you. People will say things just to put you down, just to tear you down.
You will make mistakes. People will hurt you. But do not lose your heart. Believe in yourself.
If you do not want something to touch you, do not support it. Plant what you want to experience.
If you care about happiness, then plant the seeds of happiness. Because ‘Happiness isn’t found; it’s what we make ritual, what becomes routine. It’s not luck, it’s discipline. Plant where you want to root. It will be uncomfortable to break out of the seed either way.’
Do not plant what you do not want to eat. Because if you do, you can’t run away from the results.
‘Trust that life loves you enough to break your heart if it means saving your soul.’ Life is not your enemy. Life is your friend. But a very tough friend.
‘Some people show you what’s possible if you keep going, and others show you what’s possible if you give up.’
Whether you know where you are going or not, it is better to keep moving. Life is about getting things done. If you are not doing, you are not moving.
‘You do not have to instruct a flower to bloom. You do not have to tell it how to root. You do not have to wish for it to sprout, you do not have to affirm that it will continue to reach toward the sun. You do not have to fear that it will not grow. You only have to arrange the environment so that growth is the inevitable outcome.’
If where you are right now is not supporting your growth, do not stay. If you stay, you are wasting your time.
Your ability to create resides in the millisecond that is right in front of you. The more time you spend fixated on what’s way behind or far ahead, the more you surrender your power. More of your life slips away.’
Life is not easy. But you can make things happen. To get things done, you have got to keep your power.
Source: Wiest, B. (2025). The Life That’s Waiting. Thought Catalog Books.
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