Happy first day of July! I can hardly believe that we are already into July. Second half of the year. Wow. I feel like I need to take a break to catch my breath and figure out what I’ve done with the first half of the year and what I want to do with the second half of the year. How has your year been going? I hope well.

This quote I had hanging on my door a week ago is something I sometimes have a hard time remembering, but I think is very important for everyone to remember, especially on those hard days when it seems like everything is going wrong and everything you say is getting misinterpreted.

I’ve been spending the morning writing and catching up reading all the articles I’ve marked coming over my RSS feeds as I’m going into work late today (working a late shift tonight). Many of the feeds I marked were about finding your authentic self, your true goals, and what matters to you in life. So this quote seemed especially appropriate to share today.

What matters is who we are and how we manifest ourselves in the world. Someone is always going to disagree with us, or think our dreams are silly, or our goals impossible, or our work irrelevant.  But that doesn’t really matter. It can hurt, but it’s more about them than us. Or, on the flip side, people might sometimes praise us excessively or decide our work is now hip and cool. Then we get hooked on the praise and can feel like we need it to survive. But neither the dismissal or the praise is what matters. Keeping true to our core values matters. And hopefully, we are wonderful, kind, flawed, dreaming, striving, helping, caring, human beings creating projects and things in the world that make it better through whatever gifts and talents and skills we have to share.

So let’s try not to let others’ opinions or thoughts about us matter so much and let’s just get busy creating the work and lives and world we want to see. Have a wonderful start to your July! 🙂