September 7, 2025- Worthy

“Zoom in and obsess. Zoom out and observe. We get to choose.”

~Rick Rubin

We can pick apart every little thing that goes on in our lives, whether it is a function of our actions or our circumstances. We can obsess over the minute details, bemoaning everything that didn’t go right, and admonishing ourselves for everything we didn’t do right. Will that make our lives any better?

Reflection is essential in the process of engineering our best lives. If we don’t assess our actions and determine whether they serve our journey toward the best version of us, we don’t know what to repeat and what to change.

We can easily get caught up in minutia. We can obsess over the mistakes we make, rather than observing everything we’re doing right. We can fail to offer ourselves grace, for being imperfect, for being human. We can zoom in so closely on the things we would like to change that we forget to acknowledge all the things it would serve us to keep the same.

See the forest through the trees. Acknowledge and honor all that is going right in your life. There are small, sustainable changes to be made, but we do not have to change everything. You are worthy of this journey, worthy of your dreams.