Amber Lyon Quotes

Sacrificing your needs for the sake of meeting others’ is a fast track to burnout.

Trying to control the world and what happens next is like trying to swim upstream against the flow – we exert a lot of energy and end up exactly where we started.

Our paradigms determine which information from our environment we prioritise and where our focus naturally lands.

Our fundamental creative power in life is the ability to choose. To choose our thoughts, our habits, our behaviours, our relationships, our careers and even our identities.

Surrender statement = ‘This is no longer working for me; I open myself up to finding a new way of showing up in the world

If you feel you can’t figure something out, it’s likely because you do not have enough information right now. Spending all your energy thinking without sufficient information leads to mental stress and anxiety.

It’s crucial to create distance between what is happening and your thoughts, feelings and assumptions about it. Because the less space you have, the more you assume your thoughts to be an accurate reflection of reality when more often than not, they are simply a justification for how you feel in the moment

External changes always start with internal shifts. To change your life, you must start, quite simply, by changing the way you see it.

When you surrender the idea that someone else is going to save the day, you take back your power to save it yourself. You are capable of change at any moment. If what you’ve created so far no longer feels good, you can shift your focus, energy and actions to bring about a new reality.

Healing is forgiving the pain of your past, knowing it has shaped you into who you are today.

It’s not about avoiding failure but embracing it as part of the ride towards success.

✺FOUR REMINDERS FOR WHEN YOU GET CAUGHT IN OVERTHINKING 1. Taking action will always give you more clarity than trying to figure it out in the isolation of your mind. 2. You don’t need to know how to do step six or seven when you are on step one. 3. If you want new experiences, you have to be open to taking new actions. 4. Trust that the magic of your life exists in not fully understanding what will happen next.

Sometimes, despite our love and effort, things don’t grow to be what we would have liked – but sometimes they do. It’s not our job to try to figure out what’s going to grow and what will not. Our job is to stay open to pouring into our beginnings, even when we have been disappointed in the past.

But not all paths are immediately clear, and although it’s scary to walk a path we’re not sure leads anywhere, that’s what life asks of us. To trust that we’re going to be ok walking in the dark.

There is no bound-
ary of what’s within reach to everyone. What is ‘realistic’ is set
by each of us personally, defined by our own unique set of expe-
riences, desires and beliefs. What’s realistic to someone else is a
reflection of what they believe is possible in life, but that doesn’t
have to be your truth.