Designing products for the long run — on screens and on trails

  • Treat yourself like your best friend. You are unstoppable, you are limitless.
  • We all hold ourselves to high standards. We want to grow, we want to heal, we want to do better, and be better, so much so, that we can sometimes be extremely hard on ourselves. And that is valid because it means you care.
  • It means you care about what you’re putting into this world, about how you’re showing up in this world. It means you care about meeting your potential, about being who you want to be.
  • You want the people in your life to experience all of the beauty it has to offer. You want to remind them of their worth every single day. You want to encourage them to walk away from the things that ask them to settle for less than what they are deserving of.
  • You encourage them when they doubt themselves, you remind them of their unique potential, and you speak so much love into them on their hardest days. This year, I want you to promise to do the same things for yourself.
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  • Stop settling for less than you know you deserve. Stop giving so much of your heart to those who do not value it.
  • To put so much time, energy, and effort into those who are only loving you in halves. I know how difficult it is to be in a situation where you care so deeply for someone, or where you are genuinely excited about the potential you see in another human being.
  • I know how dismantling those relationships can be, I know how hard it can be to see them for what they are because they are often filled with a lot of hope, and a lot of intensity, and you’re just waiting for the day all of that is realized, and all of that is concrete and rooted, and whole.
  • The love you have to give someone is deep and honest, and empathetic. And if someone cannot see that, if someone cannot value that, or meet that — you deserve to find the people who can.
  • Love is not meant to be given at the bare minimum. It isn’t something you have to beg for. It isn’t something you have to fight for constantly, something that is always a source of pain and confusion and hurt.
  • You deserve good love. Promise to stand up for your heart. Promise not to question your happiness too much. Promise yourself to believe that you are worthy of everything you want in life and that you are not asking for too much.
  • I am sorry that somewhere along your journey, you were convinced that you couldn’t dream the way you wanted to dream, that you couldn’t strive to experience all of the beauty this life has to offer.
  • You have to have the courage to believe that you are capable, that you are strong, that you are worthy, no matter what the world tries to tell you.
  • You have to have the courage to be your own guiding light, to validate your own purpose, to push yourself to believe that nothing is too good for you, that nothing is out of reach, that nothing you want in this life exists within impossibility if you’re willing to leap towards it.
  • You have to have the courage to crash every ounce of your hope into this world, outside of your past, outside of the opinions of others, outside of what society tells you is appropriate or achievable.
  • So whenever you feel that doubt creeps in, remind yourself that nothing is too good for you.
  • Whenever you doubt if you are deserving of the good things that come into your life, remind yourself that nothing is ever too good to be true for you — the things you want, the life you want to live, the people you hope to love, the way you want your life to feel — it’s possible for you. It’s possible.
  • Don’t convince yourself that it’s just not in the cards for a person like you. Promise yourself to believe that you are worthy.
  • Each and every single day, and especially on the days the world tries to weather you into believing otherwise. Hold fast in your hope. Believe in the possibility.
  • You are worthy of all that is kind, and good, and awe-inspiring in this world. Promise yourself that you will never forget that this year & the years ahead of you.

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