Also pray for the ability to see your own faults, your own sins, your own hypocrisy, & ur own shortcomings. You should never get so carried away pointing fingers that you forget you, too, fall short.
Ask God to restore your appetite for life. Your ideas. Your energy. Your curiosity. Your confidence. Your hope for the future. Sometimes you don't need a completely new life. You need to reconnect with the parts of yourself you stopped nurturing.
Men admire intelligent women until that intelligence becomes sharp enough to notice their inconsistencies, understand their patterns, and call out the bullshit they thought she’d overlook.
A reminder from The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson:
“Happiness comes from solving problems. The keyword here is "solving." If you're avoiding your problems or feel like you don't have any problems, then you're going to make yourself miserable. If you feel like you have problems that you can't solve, you will likewise make yourself miserable. The secret sauce is in the solving of the problems, not in not having problems in the first place. To be happy we need something to solve. Happiness is therefore a form of action; it's an activity.”
"Excellence is beautiful from a distance, and brutal up close." - unknown
Probably one of the best ways to describe the madness & obsession it takes to be truly excellent at anything.
When you know, you know.
There is no need to fear any problem you are working on. If you are working on it, then you are influencing the outcome.
It's the problems you don't address that should concern you.