Inspirational wisdom for each month of 2024
It’s easy to feel overwhelmed with words: conversations, advertising, tweets, instructions, demands and even the endless messages in our own heads sometimes.
My book A Book of Your Own offers a minimum of words – one for each day of the year – but with maximum impact: a phrase, an idea or a thought that may resonate personally, make you smile or simply remind you of a truth that you’d lost sight of.
Below, I have cherry-picked twelve snippets for each month of the year, to reassure and occasionally to give you a needed pause for reflection.
January
Really good friends are those who interrupt your usual pattern with a reminder to be gentle on yourself and take the easier option.
February
It’s never too late to awaken a dormant talent.
March
The longer you wait to take the initiative, the greater the risk that your anxiety will get the better of you.
April
We cannot be held responsible for what we feel – only for how we choose to act on our feeling.
May
It is impossible to be creative with your life and to worry about what people think of you – so the choice is which one to give up.
June
Listen attentively to what your body, in its wisdom, tells you.
July
A good cry can be a great release.
August
Short-term compromises have a habit of becoming long-term prisons.
September
Next time you catch sight of yourself in the mirror, blow yourself a little kiss – before the self – criticism starts!
October
If there’s a stone in your shoe, you can remove it – or continue to walk, hoping the pain will eventually go away.
November
A hairline crack in a relationship easily grows into an unbridgeable chasm.
December
A simple, heartfelt appreciative comment is the best gift of all.
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