”Until you get comfortable with being alone, you’ll never know if you’re choosing someone out of love or loneliness.” – Mandy Hale

For your own sense of wellbeing and personal peace, break free from the norm and go on alone!

Am I here to go up the ladder, or to lift up another?

Am I here to conform or to perform, and even transform? 

Am I here to impress the world around me, or to please Him who lives within me?

That will not be a onetime reflection, but a daily and moment by moment decision.

”Without great solitude no serious work is possible.” - Picasso

5 steps to take to make sure you are R.E.A.D.Y. to isolate and make the most of the experience!

“Dew will never gather while there is either heat or wind. The temperature must fall, and the wind cease, and the air come to a point of coolness and rest--absolute rest, so to speak--before it can yield up its invisible particles of moisture to bedew either herb or flower. So the grace of God does not come forth to rest the soul of man until the still point is fairly and fully reached.” - Streams in the Desert

In our shared experiences, we know stepping back can really be uplifting. But lets look at 5 benefits just to be sure we are convinced to occasionally spend time A.L.O.N.E!

“We need solitude, because when we're alone, we're free from obligations, we don't need to put on a show, and we can hear our own thoughts.”

― Tamim Ansary

Honor that yearning. Overcome those obstacles. And go get isolated, and now!

“This is one of the marks of a truly safe person: they are confrontable.” - Dr. Henry Cloud

Can we disagree and still be free? No hangups, no guilt? No anger or shame?

Yes, yes, Yes! What’s the key? Listen on, my friend, listen on!

“A conversation in which the two parties have different beliefs should never begin with the intention of converting the other party to your own beliefs. Every worthwhile conversation's goal should be to understand the other person's opinions and help them understand your own.”

― Emily Eskowich

There will be times we won’t be able to agree with someone else on a particular issue. And at times it is a deadlock. So stepping back is an option. Maybe not forever, but for the moment. We don’t deny, we just delay.

“What if we just all read things, and talked about them, and sometimes we liked them and sometimes we didn’t and most of the time we didn’t agree at all, and then we all went and read more things, and repeated the dance all over again?”

― Catherynne Valente

From decision making to decision management.

A step by step guide on how to D.I.S.A.G.R.E.E. more effectively!

“The statement at the core of all disagreements: I’m right, you’re wrong

― Charles F. Glassman

How can I prepped myself better to disagree?

Ok, I’ve decided not to walk away from a disagreement, but how can I ready myself more effectively to engage?

“It’s not about going around trying to stir up trouble. As long as you're honest and you articulate what you believe to be true, somebody somewhere will become your enemy whether you like it or not.”

― Criss Jami, Killosophy

Yes, you read it right: Can we please disagree?

We can’t and shouldn’t always agree! That would go against our very nature as unique members of one community whose different talents, passions, and yes, ideas are needed to make the community survive and thrive!

Are you ready to disagree?

7 ways we call all move F.O.R.W.A.R.D. together.

“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. When I let go of what I have, I receive what I need.”

Lao Tzu