The Pivot Year

by Brianna Wiest

I hope this is the year you change your life in the ways you have always secretly wanted to.

I hope that this is the year that you change your life in only the way you can, with the power only you have.

I hope each day makes you take pause and contemplate what invisible, third door of possibility you may have missed.

I hope that this is the year you discover that the floor does not only hold up if you remain where you are standing—with each step you take, and wherever you may go, it will rise to meet you, as it always has, as it always does.

I hope this is the year you begin to unearth those truths from inside of you.

I hope that this is the year you find the boldest, bravest kind of courage. I hope that this is the year you walk fiercely into the life that was always meant to be

Will you continue to replay the memories of yesterday, or will you meet the moment and make the most of what is in front of you now?

ever-forming, ever-evolving, ever-unfolding,

Every given moment contains within it doorways of opportunity, and when you choose to walk through one, you make realities available to you that were once invisible.

you can begin to plan for the moment, the joy, the journey. Instead of living on autopilot, you can learn how to continuously meet the ever-changing, ever-possible now.

Happiness is not finding success by a certain time, but finding something you love so much time itself seems to disappear.

Happiness is not having the best of everything, but the ability to make the best of anything.

Despite how loud that first river can become, we can always hear the quiet call of the second.

The journey is not about abandoning one in favor of the other, but knowing when it is time to listen, to hear, and to follow each.

Desire is so integral to who you are, it is part of you even if you are not conscious of it—even when your ego chooses to shield you from your awareness of it.

Maybe you need to stop trying to be good at the hundred things that do not light up your soul, and finally choose the one that does—the

You’re not supposed to get far on a path that was never yours to walk.

It’s learning how to build a simple life you are proud of.

That our greatest dreams and our deepest fears may coexist, and the existence of one does not negate or lessen the other.

Move toward the people who remind you of the person you know you’re meant to be,

Move toward the people who energize you more than they drain you.

the opportunities that had every reason to work out but didn’t.

Maybe you should trust in the small signs before they become big ones.

Chapters of great transformation often feel like they carry on forever, but the truth is that they are often gardens that grow from tiny seeds that you’ve been planting for a very long time.

What is meant for you will arrive in your life and it will remain in your life.

Notice what stays. Notice what is constant. Notice what perseveres. These are the things that the song of your life will be composed of.

Other people will see you the way they intend to.

other people see you the way they need to and intend to.

What matters, in the end, is the way you intend to see yourself.

Kindness is evidence of impenetrable strength. It is the willingness to stay soft in a world that tries to harden you at every corner. It is the ability to absorb your own emotions and diffuse them, to decide what you want to act on and what you want to put back out into the world, regardless of what the world has put you through.

You’ll always return to what you really are, you will always come back to your truth.

I hope you learn to live in a way that makes you glad to be alive.

I hope you learn to experience living, instead of just imagining how your life is seen.

different things are right at different times—alignment shifts as you do.

what is yours to handle and what is yours to release.

This is what it is to live—to understand your free will, and develop the discernment to use it well.

The things you want to create also want to be created through you. What you are longing to bring into the world is also what the world is longing for you to bring it.

If you are going to give your energy to anything, give it to what’s already working. To the people who already love you, to the things that show potential, to the places that make you feel more alive.

Sometimes, the quiet whispers are the most accurate ones.