Horse Hippie’s Morning Mantras

Morning Mantra: "Don't downgrade your dreams to match your reality. Upgrade your faith to match your destiny." There are many people that never realize their dreams because they focus on the obstacles instead of their goal.  They fill their head with doubt, fear, and reasons they can't get there, instead of using that same energy to plan how they will get it done. You were give...

Morning Mantra: “You are allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress at the same time.” The most beautiful masterpieces were not created quickly. They were built day by day. Year by year. Some took a lifetime. The same applies to you. Every day, you have the opportunity to expand and build on yourself. Every day, you have the ability to learn new things.  For example, you go through di...

Morning Mantra: "The sooner you believe that things can change, the faster they will." If you keep your mind so busy with worry, regrets, and fear, it has no time to believe that things can change for the good. Not only are you creating doubt, you are creating delays. Staying in a worrying or doubting space keeps your energetic vibrations too low to attract the positive change you desire...

Morning Mantra: "Never ruin an apology with an excuse."  The word 'but' is a relationship killer.  It is usually followed by an argument or an excuse.  "I am sorry, but...."  Excuses are worthless. They make US feel better, they allow US to deceive ourselves, they help US to shuck responsibility.  But they do nothing for those that we hurt.   It really doesn't ma...

Morning Mantra: "Listen to the silence. It has so much to say." You won’t regret the quiet moments – when you pause for love, notice the sky, or simply breathe and feel alive. That’s the real magic. So don’t rush past it.  There’s something so sacred in the quiet moments. They hold space for you to truly see, feel, and just be.  To learn to sit with yourself.  To learn to recognize your...

Morning Mantra: “Every time you express gratitude, you are having a conversation with the miracles already taking place in your life." Gratitude, like faith, is a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it grows, the more powerful effect it has on your life. There are actual studies about the effects of gratitude on people. One suggests that people that practice gratitude daily are happier,...

Morning Mantra: "Faith is taking the first step even though you can't see the staircase." Faith is a universal language.  There is a word for faith in every culture and religion.  There must be a reason for that.  Maybe it's because faith is necessary to the human condition. The process of growing and learning about life and ourselves requires a tremendous amount of faith. When...

Morning Mantra: “Two things to remember: Take care of your thoughts when you are alone and take care of your words when you are not.” I’ll admit it, I get in my head too much. My thoughts can create drama, suspense, fear, anger, and a host of other emotions. So, I try to remember that I create my reality through my thoughts. I am the one HAVING the thoughts and that most of the time my thoughts ar...

Morning Mantra: “It is what it is.” I must have said this 10 times this past weekend.  I did a show with my mobile unit and sales were not great.  I had to accept the fact that the goal I set was not going to be met. It is what it is can be one of the most difficult concepts to wrap your head around, because we tend to see things as we WANT them to be, not as they are. If a situation, relationship...

Morning Mantra: "One of the hardest things to do is to forgive someone that isn't sorry." Sometimes people don’t say sorry. Sometimes people don’t believe they were wrong. But that doesn’t matter. Apologies aren’t what vindicate you, you vindicate yourself. Don’t wait for someone to apologize and hold a grudge against them until they do. Do you know why? Because the person that feel...

Morning Mantra: "Everything changes when you realize that the best version of yourself is not a future version, but a daily choice." Often we imagine that we will work really hard at life and then arrive at some perfect version of ourselves in the future. Then we will be happy. This is a delusion. Your best self is the result of a life lived with purpose, choosing yourself, your highest...

Morning Mantra: “You don’t walk away to teach someone a lesson, you walk away when you have learned yours.” Life will keep giving you the same scenario until you’ve learned the lesson. So, if you find yourself in toxic relationships over and over again, you must look at why.  Co-dependency is allowing someone to see your kindness as a weakness and taking advantage of it. Having a big heart is wond...

Morning Mantra: "Someone else's expectations for you don't have to be your expectations for yourself." For too long, many of us internalized the belief that our worth is tied to how much we endure, accommodate, or sacrifice. But peace kept through self-erasure is not peace—it’s performance.  Real healing begins when we unlearn the reflex to shrink ourselves to soothe discomfort...

Morning Mantra: "There is usually an inside story for every outside behavior." When we don't understand a behavior we tend to think a person is doing something on purpose to hurt us. But beneath every behavior is a feeling. And beneath every feeling is a need. And when we meet that need rather than focus on the behavior, we begin to deal with the cause, not the symptom. People'...

Morning Mantra: “Make good choices today so you don’t have regrets tomorrow.” Everything in your life is a reflection of a choice you have made. If you want different results, you need to make different choices. Here are a number of mantras you can use to start your day, and throughout your day, to remind you the choice is yours. I can choose not to get angry. I can choose not to take offense. I c...

Morning Mantra: "Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end." Moving on, starting something new, leveling up, all require the end of how things are now.  There is so much opportunity in the ending, but most people focus on the new start. All endings are a chance to rest, to breathe, and to reflect on the conclusion of that part of your journey in preparation for the n...

Morning Mantra: "Don't be absent from your own life." I wish I could tell my 20-year-old self what I now believe is the most important thing in life. I would tell her, with all my heart, just to be present and open to the moment that is unfolding before you. Because ultimately, your life is made up of moments. So don’t miss them by being lost in the past or anticipating the future....

Morning Mantra: "Some people create their own storms, then get upset when they get wet." There will always be those people in your life (hopefully it's not you) that create drama.  The peace they seek scares them so much that they self-sabotage their happiness.  They create chaos for the excitement it brings into their life- even though it's negative.  They quit jobs, break off...

Morning Mantra: "If your happiness depends on something you can lose, you'll spend your entire life afraid of losing it."   The more you cling to something, the more fear you have of losing that something or someone. When we cling onto things that feel good, it’s often because we fear that something so good won’t come around again. We fear that this person, this experience, this fee...

Morning Mantra: "Don't let part-time givers be full-time takers.” We basically teach people how to treat us by what we tolerate, so either you wake up to your value or they do. If they don’t it’s time to let go. This starts with learning your worth. Know the difference between what you're getting and what you deserve. If you don't learn your value then you look to others for it...

Morning Mantra: “Behind every strong person is a story that gave them no choice.” We don’t become stronger without struggle. That's an unfortunate fact. Life is a cycle of good times and bad times, happiness and sadness, peace and struggle.  If I lose my faith during difficult times in my life then that is a signal to me that I have work to do. Because I KNOW I can handle anything that life s...

Morning Mantra: “Your attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.” Your attitude determines so much about your life.   A bad one can literally block love, blessings and destiny from finding you. With a bad attitude you find a problem with every solution. So you stay stuck. A good attitude can cause a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events, and outcomes. It changes the way you resp...

Morning Mantra: “Life is too short to waste time.”  One of the biggest mistakes people make is to think they have time.  Ask anyone that is a bit older and they will tell you how fast their life has gone by.  It seems like I blink my eyes and another year has past.   So don't waste time. If you made a mistake, apologize.  If you are thankful, say it.  If you are confused, ask questions.  If y...

Morning Mantra: "Stop trying to be liked by everybody, you don't even like everybody."  There is a difference between be liked and being valued. You can like someone and not value them. You can also value someone and not particularly like them. If you want to find people who truly value you then you have to be yourself. Every imperfection, every past mistake, every awkward moment. E...

Morning Mantra: “Today I will focus on the good news in life.” If we depend on the news headline for our view of the world it can be quite upsetting and discouraging.  There is a saying in the media, “If it bleeds it leads.” And when you read the news these days it’s easy to see that they believe this. I’d rather not let them tell me how to view the world, how people are treating each other, and w...