Another Monday rolls around, another opportunity to have an awesome week! There are a lot of memes and moaning about Mondays, but I say, at least for this Monday, think of it as Marvelous Monday for moving monuments!
Have a great start to your week!
Only ten more days until the official start of spring. Early spring can be a really hopeful time of year, so many things may come to fruition, the promise of warmer weather and related adventures. It is also a great time to reflect on your goals from the beginning of the year, reassess, and maybe set new ones.
Are you looking forward to spring?
Most things that are worth doing involve hard work. Achieving goals and chasing dreams are rarely easy paths to follow, requiring a certain mental, emotional and sometimes physical strength. However, it is important to always remember that even the strongest of us need to incorporate rest into our routines. You can’t get stronger without a period of recovery.
Enjoy the weekend, you’ve earned it!
Feminism is the belief in the social, economic and political advocacy of women in terms of the equal treatment of all people along the basis of sex and gender. A lot of places on the internet might tell you that feminists are all terrible man-haters hell bent on destroying society, but that simply isn’t the case. Feminism seeks to create a world that is more fair, where people are not constrained to certain activities or roles on the basis of their sex and gender identity. If you are reading this, you have probably in some way benefited from the ideals of feminism – even if you are male! Today is International Women’s Day, which aims to celebrate the accomplishments of women while creating a more equal world for women, but really, I think we could all use some feminism in our lives everyday.
Celebrate women, celebrate everyone
If you find yourself in a bind and you don’t know what to do, sometimes the best act of kindness is just to be present. Simply being there can make all the difference. 
Things may not be perfect, but they are also not so bad if you look around. Spring is on the way and there is no one quite like you in the universe.
The challenges and disappointments we face make the great times even more wonderful.
Do you ever feel like if you could just get that one break or breakthrough everything would come together? Maybe you are not so far off, maybe your goal is closer than it seems. Consider that you already have everything you need inside of you to accomplish your dreams.
Keep pressing forward, you got this!
Never mistake arrogance for talent or authenticity. Staying humble and being grateful for every step of your journey is more important than being the best or comparing your path to the journeys of others. You’re amazing just the way you are, and through good actions your light will shine.
Be courageous in your humility, never boastful or arrogant at the expense of others.
Desire paths are those trodden, foot created trails you sometimes see across open spaces representing places that lack a proper paved sidewalk or footpath that people (and or goats) use to make their journeys more efficient. Perhaps they signal a certain yearning to rebel against the modern world, forge your own path and thumb your nose at the algorithms of urban planning. On one hand, they are a form of active resistance, dividing planted grassy knolls and designated open spaces, but on the other, they are literally perhaps the “path of least resistance” making traveling across these spaces perhaps easier and less time consuming. Desire paths are the physical manifestation of one of the paradoxes of being human – a longing to be your own, individual person, guided by your own desires, intuition and knowledge that is better than anyone else’s for your experience; however, longing to belong and fit in with others, to experience the stages of life in their proper order and to share your life’s path with others. Perhaps there is no real solution other than finding balance between our yearning for individuality and belonging, and maybe updated urban planning algorithms.
What is your desire path?
What are you doing with your life? Perhaps consider that you don’t always need to have an answer to this question. Sometimes, you might find yourself embarking on thrilling adventures. Other times, you might just be doing what you must to get by. It takes a long time to figure it out, and what might work for awhile may change and transform. It’s ok if you don’t know, and it might even be ok if you never know.
It is perfectly acceptable to spend some time wandering.
Goat of the Day 