What you do in private always shows in public.Reading shows in conversations. Your workouts show in your physique. Your diet shows in your energy. Your discipline shows in your confidence. Your focus shows in your results.
You are what you cultivate when no one is watching.
I don't know who needs to see this, but Isaiah 60:22 says, "When the time is right, I, the Lord, will make it happen." So relax. You're not behind, you're not forgotten, and you're not late. God's timing is still working in your favor.
I keep a rolling Notes doc called "Good things are always happening to me" and update it whenever I realize a good thing totally just happened to me. Good things are always happening to us.
Laughter is anti-inflammatory. Crying is regulating. Hugging is immunoprotective. Singing is vagal toning. Dancing is neurogenic.
Joy is a biological necessity.
Going to leave you with this tonight:
The best thing you can do for yourself is actively increase your surface area for luck to hit you. Go outside, travel more, go to new cates, museums, events, take a new route home, go for hikes, see cities, countrysides, take your notebook, speak to people, ask questions, start businesses - go on more side quests. You can literally just do things, and the more you do, the more serendipity and synchronicity will find you.
Delaying something you deeply care about stems from a hidden need for approval. You want it to be perfect. Perfect idea. Perfect outcome. Everything exactly how you imagined. You want certainty that when you finally put yourself out there, nobody will judge you. But life doesn’t work like that. People will judge. People will misunderstand. People will criticize even the things they could never create themselves. And some people will love it and worship it. Pay attention to neither. The praise and the criticism are both noise. Do it because it matters to you. Create from a place so honest that the outcome doesn’t control you. Do it because it's the expression of your being. And then... let it go.