Opening an old notebook…
…I found this quote, written down when I was in New York at my retreat:
“If you treat people the way they are, you make them worse. If you treat them the way they ought to be, you make them capable of becoming what they ought to be.” –Goethe
I know who I was no doubt thinking of when I jotted this down. But what if we treated OURSELVES as the people we ought to be, the people we know we are capable of becoming? Today I’m going to treat myself as the happy genius of my household, the famously productive writer, Bethany Reid.
Which of course you are. Now back to work. I am going to treat myself as the famously productive writer Priscilla Long.
Good for you. And I’m joining you and Priscilla in treating myself, as well. (Not famously productive yet, but fruitfully productive and exceedingly hardworking!)