Stop. Stop questioning. Stop over-thinking. Stop looking back and trying to measure where you’ve been or how far you have left to go. Stop telling yourself you aren’t there yet, or aren’t good enough. Because right where you are in this moment—even in all this imperfection and mess and steps still left to take—is exactly where you’re supposed to be. Thousands of moments led up to this. Hundreds of decisions and actions. Millions of tiny thoughts and mistakes and blessings have brought you are. And here is good. For some reason we keep telling ourselves that we aren’t enough, that we have so far to go, that we’ll never reach this supposed ‘level’ or ‘standard’ we hold ourselves to. But we forget that every step of the journey is part of the journey. We forget that there are going to be rough patches on the road to success, that there will be downs to each of our ups, and that sometimes we’re not going to be moving at all, but instead standing still. And all of these places ar
