“The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.” — Barack Obama

It is so so easy to stay in a rut. That’s how it became a rut in the first place. I know this so well because I am forever finding myself in one. Life is a constant decision to stay in a place of safety even if it’s miserable, or to fling oneself out of the rut and toward change.

This quote by Barack Obama is literally the cure to my own hopelessness and stagnation. It is so easy to wait. Wait until you feel like it. Wait until the weekend. Wait until Friday or summer or…or…or I can find so many reasons to wait.

But if we take one small step toward the world we want to create….we slowly find ourselves taking more steps than we planned and suddenly we are out of the rut entirely.

I am passionate about small steps toward big change. Especially because burn out is so real and the world feels so heavy. Love someone in a small way today. Do one thing to create community today. That could be leaving cookies in your mailbox for the mail delivery person. Perhaps you write a letter to a friend you haven’t seen in a while. I am going to remember to return my library book which is definitely something I keep forgetting to do that will make life just a little bit better.

Oh. And I am writing to you, which I do so love to do. These little letters into the internet to tell a stranger, hey! I see you. I feel you. I love you. You matter and we can get out of our rut together.

Let us go out into the world and create some good. I believe in us!

Xoxo

Winter