Horse Hippie’s Morning Mantras

Morning Mantra: “Don’t let small minds convince you that your dreams are too big.”

Dreams are like gifts; they cannot be realized unless you open them. These gifts were given to you for a reason. You can either open it and see what is in store for you, or you can let fear decide. At least let that choice be yours.

Caution is good, but fear will create limits.  Your fear, or the fear instilled by someone else that cannot see the possibility in your dreams. 

Every day you must decide to either s...

Morning Mantra: “This feeling is temporary.”

Oftentimes we make choices based on how we feel in the moment. I bet you can think of a few times.  I know I can.

This can lead to hurt feelings, troubled relationships, and even a more difficult life.

Try to treat your feelings like visitors; understand that they come and go. 
Acknowledge them, try and understand them, but do not let them move in and run your life.

Learn to use your emotions (feelings) to think, but to not to let your emotions think...

Morning Mantra: “I have decided that love wins.”

Occasionally I have to remind myself that everything is not about me and my story. I have to remember that we ALL  have stories. We are ALL out here trying. We are ALL dealing with something. 

And sometimes life is simply hard. 
For me AND for others.

So instead of staying wrapped up in my own bubble, I need to give grace. Smile more. Let things go more often. Live within kindness every. single. day.

I’ve decided that living in the image of...

Morning Mantra: "Within every woman is a wild woman."

What does it mean to be a wild woman? 
To me, being wild, is a woman of any age that feels free to fully express herself in every dimension of her life.
It means you are free to unbridle your mind from conditioning and fear.
Free to release your untamed spirit and let it soar.
Being a wild women allows you to be yourself without asking permission.
To express your truth.
To wear what you want.
To do what you want.

Morning Mantra: "I honor myself when I need to rest."

Sunday used to be known as a day of rest but in our culture where overwork is praised, a day of rest has disappeared.

Admitting that you are worn out and need some time for yourself doesn't mean you are weak or selfish.  It means you are human. 

Never feel ashamed to say you need space to rest, recharge and come back to yourself.  You need empty moments where you tolerate your circling thoughts and anxiety until they slow down and stop.

Morning Mantra: “Be patient with 
yourself.”

You don’t just overcome things overnight. You don’t suddenly become OK. You don’t mature or grow in a minute. The reality is, the process is slow, and messy, and even ugly at times. 

And it’s not linear, there will be twists and turns and detours. Sometimes it may seem to take you more steps back than you have taken forward. 

At times, it may seem as if you don’t understand 
yourself, you don’t know where you stand, where 
you’re headed, or even who...

Morning Mantra: “The wait isn’t punishment, it’s preparation.”

It’s difficult to be patient when you think you know what you want your life to look like. It’s hard to not push and try to hurry things up.

Please just trust the timing of your life. Many times, we force things because we think we have to have it all figured out by a certain age. But guess why? You don’t have to chase a version of yourself to fit in, to please others, or make a mark in the world.

Your...

Morning Mantra: “It's not how we fall that defines us. It's how we get up again.”

It’s called falling forward. Falling forward is the ability to get back up after you’ve been knocked down. 

If you fall, you learn to process it, then to take responsibility for your response to it, you find the lesson in it, and you move forward in a better direction.

We all fall.  It's part of life, growing, learning, daring, and caring. But how do you get up again?

#BeAForwardFaller #BeHappy #BeHippie #MorningMantra #WordsToInspire #Inspiratio...

Morning Mantra: "You owe yourself the love you so freely give others."

You’ve been the person that everyone needed you to be for so long. You loved first and sorted it out later. It’s who you are and who you will always be – someone with a big heart who wants to make life better for others. 

But there comes a time when you need to turn that big love inward and shine brightly for yourself. So you can become the fullest version of yourself without the expectations of others. The real you. 

Once...

Morning Mantra: “Today is going to be a good day.  Show me how good it can get and how easy it can be.”

Starting today, stop rushing, pushing and stressing about life. Stop worry about how or when things will work out and start truly believing that they will work out in your favor.

Instead of overthinking, align your faith with divine timing and trust that everything that belongs in your life is making its way towards you right now.

What we think we believe, what we believe we achieve.

#BeABeliver #BeHap...

Morning Mantra: "Surround yourself with people who fight for you in rooms you are not in."

When we speak of friendship we often talk about loyalty, but what we’re really looking for is safety. The feeling that someone has your back, not when it’s convenient or when you’re winning, but in the in between moments when you’re not even there to know you needed protecting. 

You know it’s a true friend when they get more upset than you do when someone hurts you or speaks bad about you. They don’t downplay it...

Morning Mantra: "Where we look from is what we are looking for."

What lens do you through?

"I am not enough."

"I am not loved."

"I am too much."

"I'm not worthy."

Whatever lens you see the world through is what you are going to be seeking.  You will compensate for what you perceive to be the issue.  You might compensate through overcommitting, through overworking, through accepting less than you deserve.

That is what drives many people to "discover" how to get what they think is...

Morning Mantra: "Let's treat each other's learning journey with as much grace as we expect from others."

We meet people in the tiny moments of their very big lives. We have no idea what really is going on. Be careful what you decide about someone from the five seconds you happen to witness.

How would people react to you in your worst moments? The same grace you would want from them in that moment, you should offer others.

We have gotten to the place that no one actually 'sees' each other because we...

Morning Mantra: "Nothing can dim the light that shines from within."

This quote by Maya Angelou reminds us that we are all the light of love. That we all carry the goodness, and kindness, and compassion that is God.  That we must choose to not let anything dim your light.

No one will ever know the magic of who you really are more than yourself.  The more you turn within and celebrate the light that radiates from within you, the more you will positively impact the world.  Simply by being you.

With all the...

Morning Mantra: "Being chosen should never require you to convince someone that you are worthy of choosing."

You deserve to be chosen, instead of considered. When you become merely an option for someone, that is not someone who will choose you constantly, undoubtedly.  In other words, they are not your people.

We all know what it feels like to be chosen. Chosen to be loved, chosen to be friends, chosen for that good job, and chosen to have a good life. 

When we’re not chosen, it feels like WE must be lacking some...

Morning Mantra: "Today I will stop participating in things and relationships that no longer feel good to my soul."

We can all feel a tremendous amount of guilt when we decide that something or someone is no longer serving our best interest.  We are raised to be kind, polite and accept things to keep the peace.

But I believe that "I just don't want that for my life anymore" is a valid enough reason to stop anything, any relationship, any job, any activity.

Your life should feel good.  Feel like it fits.  It sho...

Morning Mantra: "For every minute you are angry you lose 60 seconds of peace."

Anger is punishment we give to ourselves for somebody else's mistake.  Like when someone cuts you off in traffic.
It doesn't solve anything.   Did the other driver care if you were angry? No.
It builds nothing.  Did it solve anything? No.
But it can destroy everything.  Now your day and peace are disrupted.

Forgiving  and letting go frees us of from the unnecessary stress that anger creates. It allows people to be responsible for themselves and for us to take...

Morning Mantra: "Life was never meant to be understood, it was meant to be felt."

Instead of trying to understand life, why not just live and feel it?  Maybe through that we can learn and understand better.

Many of us are taught from an early age to hide our tears as if sadness were some kind of failure.  But how do you learn to cope without feeling sad? 

Others were taught to suppress their joy as if being happy and laughing loudly were something to be embarrassed about.  How do we express our happ...

Morning Mantra:  "Sometimes the kindest thing we can do is remember that everyone is carrying a life we cannot fully see."

True kindness does not require full understanding of another person story. It only requires acknowledging that a story exist, hidden from view.

How can we judge people for their choices when we don’t know their struggles? 
We don’t know the circumstances that made those choices.
We don’t know what they’ve been through. 
We don’t know what options they had. 
We don’t know what they’re forced to sacri...

Morning Mantra: "Today, I will appreciate the wonder of friends."

I think friendship is one of the greatest love stories you can ever have. Someone who has no obligation to, chooses you.

They become part of your life just because they want to be in it.  A good friend helps you find things when you lose them like your smile, your hope and your courage. I don’t think we talk enough about how special that is. 

To be loved by people who are not family. Who did not fall in love with you...

Morning Mantra: “The darkest nights produce the brightest stars.”   

Tough times are going to happen. Everyone suffers. Everyone has really dark days.  But it's not the dark that destroys the light.  It actually defines it.  It helps you find your way.

It's our fear of the dark that creates the shadows.  Where we think there is no light to help us find our way through.  In the midst of darkness, remember you are growing, learning, changing. The same you that started into the darkness is not the same person that will emerge.

It helps to lo...

Morning Mantra: "Today I will rid myself of something that is quietly draining me."

If it drains you it's not for you. Love, relationships, jobs, anything meant for you will not exhaust you it will nourish you.

If you constantly feel depleted after being around someone, doing something or being somewhere, it is not aligned with your soul.  I'm not talking about occasional minor irritation, but rather every time you are with them/doing it/being there you feel a weight pulling you down.

Your peace is the biggest sign of what belongs i...

Morning Mantra: "The right time doesn't exist.  There is just time and what you choose to do with it."

If you are waiting for the perfect time to start something, that time is now.  Time never stops, life doesn't wait, tomorrow isn't guaranteed.   You only have so much time to spend, spend it doing what you want.

If you choose to wait until everything is how you think it should be, you might wait forever.  If it's important to you, you'll find a way.  If it's not, you'll find a reason to wait.

Your...

Morning Mantra: "Noise steals clarity. Protect your quiet."

There is so much noise in our lives now. It's sad when we have to seek silence.  To try and find solitude where we can think clearly.  But we must.

The quiet hours are where we find peace, nourish our souls, and gain the insight we need.  So schedule it if you must, but find some quiet time.

A walk in nature?  A trail ride? Sitting on a dock, in a quiet room or on your front porch at sunset?

Wherever you find it...

Morning Mantra: "People don’t decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their future."

Your daily habits are not just routines, they are reflections of your mindset, your values, and your commitment to becoming the person your future self will thank you for.

If your daily habits don’t align with your goals, your goals are just dreams. Change your habits, and you can change your life.

It’s always the small habits that make the biggest difference. How you spend your mornings. How you talk to yourself. What you re...

Morning Mantra: "Life is a constant cycle of losing your spark and finding it again."

The cycle of life. Some days you feel strong, other days you feel tired of pretending that you’re OK. You might smile on the outside, but there are still quiet battles on the inside.

You keep going but you’re trying to remember what it feels like before everything got heavy.

But then slowly, you find yourself again. 

When you start to lose your spark, the absolute best way to find it again is to keep...

Morning Mantra:” It’s better to admit you went through the wrong door than to stay your whole life in the wrong room.”

We are all doing life for the first time. It’s OK if you’ve made mistakes before, wrong choices, trusting the wrong people, taking the wrong steps.  All of these are part of learning. Part of life.

You must never feel badly about making mistakes as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. You often learn more from being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right...

Morning Mantra: "Either the fear goes away or the opportunity does."

Fear. The big obstacle in life we all must face at sometime.  Fear actually is based in the past, even though it rears it's head when we are thinking about something to do now or in the near future.

Fear is a memory of the last time you got hurt, embarrassed, failed, rejected or any host of unpleasant things.   It is something your mind creates to protect you.  But, it is not based in reality about the current situation/decision you are making.  How coul...

Morning Mantra: "In life, it's important to simply stop arguing with certain people, and just let them be wrong."  

With the stress of the the current climate in the US most people need an outlet for their anxiety. Some people take up a new sport or mindfulness hobby, some go back to school online, some quit their jobs and hit the road.   

Others decide to get mad and stay that way.  And when they are feeling particularly anxious or challenged, they pick fights. In their homes, in their cars, at work, and on social media.
...

Morning Mantra: "Fix the leak before filling the bucket."

We all want to add extra "good" things to our lives.  Maybe we think that if we fill our life with good stuff it will counteract anything that's bad.

Truth is, addressing one bad habit will do more to change your life than adding another good one.  Mainly because that bad habit/situation/relationship takes up space.  Space where the new ( better) thing needs to go.

Cramming another thing onto your plate without creating that space just causes stress and doesn't change the thing tha...

Morning Mantra: “Use your time creating the life you want, instead of escaping the life you have.”
  
If you want to make positive changes in your life, get in the habit of asking yourself, “Does this support the life I am trying to create?”  Then don’t sit on the couch and wait for it to happen.
You must take control of your thoughts and actions.  Start eliminating things that don't align and adding things that do.

Go out and try new things.
Throw away what you’ve been cluttering.
Do not follow negative...

Morning Mantra: "The cracks are where the light gets in."

Some of the posts I do are worth repeating.  This one from 2021 is one of them.

The Japanese art of Kintsugi , which literally means "gold joinery", believes in putting broken pottery pieces back together with gold  — it is a metaphor for embracing your flaws and imperfections.

I love this idea of emphasizing the cracks.  We are all broken at times.  But this is where the light of healing can enter.  By using gold to mend the cracks, it makes the vessel even stronger than it...

Morning Mantra: "I wonder how much of what weighs me down isn't mine to carry."   

If you are like me you have a natural tendency to want to take on more than you need to.  To solve everyone's problems instead of just listening to them and letting them unburden themselves.

Detachment is something I had to learn.  It's not a sign of not caring about others.  It's more about taking care of yourself first and letting others take responsibility for their actions without trying to save or punish them. 

What helps me to do thi...

Morning Mantra: "Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of my reaction to it."

The longer I live the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than anything. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, the circumstances.  It's more important than failure, than success, than what other people think or say or do. 

It’s more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill. It’ll make or break a company, a church, a home, a relationship. 

We cannot change our past, we cannot...

Morning Mantra: "Spend more time with people who bring out the best in you not the stress in you."

You can't force anyone to value, respect, understand, or support you, but you can choose to spend your time around people who do.

We tend to want to convince other people that we are worthy.  We spend way to much time trying to get their approval.  Time better spent with people who already care.

Make it a habit to spend more time with YOUR people – the people you enjoy, who love and appreciate you, and...

Morning Mantra: “Everything is going to be okay.” 

You have to keep the faith.  But faith isn't about everything turning out okay.  It's about being okay no matter how things turn out.

You might not be able to control what's happening or fix what's broken but you are in control of how you respond to it.

When you are having a hard day and you start to doubt yourself, remember, you have survived 100% of your worst days. You got this.

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Morning Mantra: "Some people create their own storms, then get upset when they get wet."  

There will always be those people in your life (maybe it's you?) that create drama.  
The peace they seek scares them so much that they self-sabotage their happiness.

They quit jobs, break off relationships, stop paying bills, over spend, drink or eat too much. Then they complain about it.

They look for people to blame. because they won't take accountability for their own unhappiness.  They look for ways to avoid facing the truth.  Ways to avoid honest rela...

Morning Mantra: "Kind people don't keep score."

If you expect something in return for being a kind person, you are treating your relationships as transactional. You care more about what’s in it for you than what you bring to it.

Relationships should be reciprocal. But they will not always be equal as sometimes you give more than you get. And other times you receive more.

That’s just how it works.

Scorekeeping breeds resentment. Resentment damages trust and respect.  Give with an open heart and you’ll soon discover who appreci...

Morning Mantra: "You’re not meant to carry every burden alone. Let yourself lean on others."

Letting other people help you doesn’t mean you’re weak or helpless. Sometimes it just means you’re smart enough to understand that you don’t have to do everything on your own.

Being vulnerable can be scary. Especially with someone who expects the worst in others.  But vulnerability is at the core, the center, of meaningful human experiences.

Vulnerability is having the courage to show up when you can’t control the outcome. It takes courage to op...

Morning Mantra: "Starting late is only embarrassing if you still think life is a race."

Life is not a race, but a journey.
A journey to find your best self, to live your best life.
A journey to be savored, not rushed through.
It’s never too late to start something that’ll bring you closer to that goal.

Who cares what other people think about what you’re doing, the changes you want to make, or where you are along the path.  The worst thing you can do is just stay stuck a...