Horse Hippie’s Morning Mantras

Morning Mantra: “And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” Life is simply amazing. We get to learn how to love ourselves and one another for the strange, messy, and magical creatures we are. We get to participate with our whole hearts in whatever moment life brings. Without questioning the reasons why it's happening. We learn to lean into the un...

Morning Mantra: “Who you include into the circle of your life will make the difference in the quality of your life.” You’ve come far enough to know that your energy is precious, and those that appreciate it are keepers, and those that drain you are most definitely not.  So it's important that you are picky about who you let into your circle.  Keep your circle filled with positive minded peopl...

Morning Mantra: “A smile has the same meaning in every language.” Perhaps we just need to smile more. Life doesn’t have to be as serious as we make it. The sun rises, the sun sets, and tomorrow is another day with more opportunities to be happy coming your way. Notice them, appreciate them, and be grateful for being alive. Take time for laughter, lots of it, take time to smile. Seek out the humor...

Morning Mantra: “You are shaped by your thoughts. Your world becomes what you think it is.” Imagine if you invested the same energy that you use to doubt yourself and used it to believe in who you are and all that you can do instead. Imagine if you thought of best-case scenarios all the time, instead of how things could go wrong. Imagine if you focused on the good in the world, instead of only see...

Morning Mantra: "There is no way to happiness, happiness IS the way." For a long time, it seemed to me that life was about to begin-real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way preventing that from happening, preventing me from being really happy. Something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business to do, time still to be served, or a debt to be paid. And then one...

Morning Mantra: “Be an encourager, the world has enough critics." If someone is falling behind in life, you don’t have to remind them. Believe me, they already know. If someone is unhealthy, they know. If someone is struggling in their personal relationship, or their relationship with money, or with their self-image, they already know. It’s what they think about each day. What you need to do...

Morning Mantra: “Life is a series of tiny little miracles, notice them.” Life is meant to be more than dreams, and aspirations and busy days. Life is meant to be noticed, to be absorbed, to be treasured. Sometimes we get so caught up in trying to accomplish something big, that we fail to notice the little things that give life its magic. Notice when the sun rays sneak through the clouds, when the...

Morning Mantra: “Expectations are just disappointments waiting to happen. Requirements are boundaries waiting to be met.” I'm at a point in my life where I no longer have expectations, I have requirements.  Because I have found that if I expect someone to behave in a certain way, I am constantly disappointed.  So my requirements help me set boundaries that protect my peace. Expectations are k...

Morning Mantra: "One of the hardest things to do is to forgive someone that isn't sorry." Sometimes people don’t say "I'm 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...

Morning Mantra: “Every champion was once a beginner who refused to give up.” I spent the weekend watching all the riders at the horse show I was set up at with my Horse Hippie mobile unit.  I saw some champions and I saw some quit. It made me think about what makes a champion. I realized that they just don't give up. We are not all born with the strength and determination it takes to keep goi...

Morning Mantra: “The six best doctors: sunshine, water, exercise, rest, fresh air, and horses.” If you want to improve your life, you must start to cultivate good habits. I added horses of course! But seriously, try to include as many of these healthy habits as possible every day. Your habits will either make you or break you. Healthy habits are learned in the same way as unhealthy ones, through p...

Morning Mantra: "People who feel the need to control others don't have control over themselves." Power is not controlling others through manipulation, criticism, and guilt. Controlling others is what weak people think power looks like.  Trying to control other people is the first sign that you are out of control. Real power is to be in control of yourself. Knowing how to handle your...

Morning Mantra: "Some talk to you in their free time, and some free their time to talk to you. Learn the difference." People may not always tell you how they feel, but they will certainly show you. Watch how people treat you, because how they treat you is ultimately how they feel about you. When they tell you they are too busy, it's not always a reflection of their schedule, sometim...

Morning Mantra: "Life is strange. We come with nothing and fight for everything, and in the end, we leave everything and go with nothing." Life is a fleeting journey, a cycle of gaining and letting go.  We arrive with empty hands, and we spend our days chasing, building, and holding on, as if we can outrun time itself.  We grasp at love, success, meaning—desperate to make something of th...

Morning Mantra: “I know not what tomorrow will bring.” The thing is, we don’t really know what is waiting for us tomorrow. All we really have, and all we know, is right now. Today. This moment. So don’t waste your precious time staying angry. Don’t waste your energy thinking you are not worthy of everything you desire. Don’t live in the past with regret, or in the future with worry. Love yourself,...

Morning Mantra: “This feeling is temporary.” Oftentimes we make choices based on how we feel in the moment. I bet you can think of a few times. I know I can. Making decisions based on a temporary feeling can often lead to the wrong choice.  Try to treat your feelings like visitors; understand that they come and go. Acknowledge them, try and understand them, but do not let them move in and run your...

Morning Mantra: “The more you do, the more you fail. The more you fail, the more you learn. The more you learn, the better you get.” I’d rather fail over and over trying to do what I love, than settle. There is nothing wrong with making mistakes, they are part of the human experience. Just acknowledge them, take responsibility for them, and learn from them. Then try again. What is the point of bei...

Morning Mantra: “The path of awakening is not about becoming who you are. Rather it’s about unbecoming who you are not.” Finding yourself is not how it really works. You are not a $10 bill in last winter‘s coat pocket. You’re also not lost. Your true self is right there, buried under cultural conditioning, other people’s opinions, and the inaccurate conclusions you made as a kid. These became your...

Morning Mantra: “Be true. Be You. You’ll always be brave in someone’s mind and a coward in others. Strong to one person and fragile to another. Good in someone’s opinion and terrible to another. You’ll always be seen as annoying to someone and comforting to someone else. Someone will feel anxious around you, and someone will find peace in your company. Some will see you as “too much “while others...

Morning Mantra: “I have enough, I am enough, I do enough.” If you live in a constant state of want, then you never feel grateful for everything you have already, and you live with a feeling of lack. If you don’t accept yourself, with all your mistakes, flaws and imperfections, then you’ll live in a state of fear about how people perceive you. If you are always running around in constant busyness a...

Morning Mantra: “The sky would be really dark with just one star.” Right now, more than ever, we need to find what connects us, what we have in common, rather than what our differences are.  That's really hard to do when we make judgmental assumptions about the people we encounter. It’s a difficult task as humans are wired to be judgey. But it’s possible. What if we start by looking for the g...

Morning Mantra: “I am proud of the person I am becoming because I've worked hard to get to know me.” The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be. As you do your mindset will change, your priorities will change, your tastes will change, and your tolerance will change. It can be scary and strange but life is all about change.  Life is about learn...

Morning Mantra: “Every choice in life either moves you forward, or keeps you stuck.” Your life is a series of habits that are formed from choices you make every single day. We all think we are products of what happened TO us. That we are handed the lives we have and are expected to keep them. We’re not. What happens to us is simply a starting point. What we DO in response is what life is really ab...

Morning Mantra: “My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive!" Life, this glorious life, is not simply meant to be endured. You are meant to soar, to stumble then flourish as you learn to fall in love with your existence. We were born to LIVE not merely exist. The best thing I ever did in my adult life was start digging deep and asking myself why I am the way I am and why I do...

Morning Mantra: “Today could be the best day of my life!” The attitude you bring to the day is what the day will bring to you. Good attitude equals good day. There are certain things that can increase the probability of you having a good day.  Start the morning with gratitude rather than dread about what you have to do to that day. Take a nice walk in nature first thing instead of using the time t...