Accept Your Origin Story

Do you accept you for who you are?

You’ll never have the perspective of where you’re going, if you never take the time to understand what you’ve survived so far.

It wasn’t until I was laid off from an ad agency on my birthday while going into my second year as a parent did this phrase make sense in a full clarity kind of way.

But here’s what else I learned:

You aren’t the title, you’re a person with a story to share, love to give, and value to pass on. Live as such.

It’ll be tempting to do ot...