Horse Hippie’s Morning Mantras

Morning Mantra: “Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.” Viktor E. Frankl explains that between stimulus and response there is a space.  In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth into someone less reactive and our freedom from reactive consequences. Look at the word responsibility.  It is actually made up of two words-response and abil...

Morning Mantra: “Ego-centered people want you to see how powerful they are, loving people want you to see how powerful you are.” When someone is rooting for your success or happiness, you can’t help but feel the same for them too. When someone gives you good energy, it compels you to mirror it back.  Surround yourself only with people who are going to lift you higher. Then, root for the people aro...

Morning Mantra: “There’s no expiration date on reinventing yourself.” It’s okay to begin a new chapter, a new version of yourself, a new life today.  It’s never too late.  If you are unhappy with where your life is at-change it.  A fresh start is yours for the taking.  You can be the person you always saw yourself as- your future self- starting today. The magic of new beginnings is never about the...

Morning Mantra: “It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.” There are dreamers and there are planners- the planners are the ones who make their dreams come true. Most people just waste their time and energy wishing they could achieve their dreams but those that truly want to reach a goal start with a plan. Achieving anything begins with the idea (or dream), then breaking it down into act...

Morning Mantra: “There is a reason the rearview mirror is so small and the windshield is so big, where you are headed is much more important than what you left behind.” Don’t look back, you’re not going that way. Keep looking forward.  Life isn’t about looking back and wishing things were the same or feeling shame about how or what things happened.  Life is about moving on, accepting change, movin...

Morning Mantra: “You might not be able to change it, but you can choose to not let it change you.” If I could tell you anything to save you time and lessons in life, I would tell you to never let anything that happens to you turn you bitter. Don’t let the pain of something that was out of your hands turn your heart cold. Stay soft, as difficult as that is sometimes, try. Try with all your heart to...

Morning Mantra: "If the simple things in life don’t make you smile, then you’ll never truly be happy." Most of your life will not be extraordinary. Most of your life will be doing simple things regularly.  So, if you are only going to be happy when you’re on vacation, after a big win, or when you have a ton of money in the bank, you’re going to spend most of your life really dissatisfied...

Morning Mantra: “There is no exercise better for the human heart than reaching down and lifting people up.” Each of us has the ability to live our life in service of others. To be a light in their darkness, to be the rainbow in their storm. I wish more people realized that when you help another person win, cheering them on, praying for them, or sharing resource with them, does not take away from t...

Morning Mantra: “By taking care of myself I have so much more to offer the world than when I’m running on empty.” Your mental health is more important than the test, the interview, the lunch date, the meeting, the family dinner, the soccer game, the recital, and any other thing that is stressing you out.  Take care of yourself, these things can add up. We are conditioned to believe we must self-sa...

Morning Mantra: “Your day is pretty much formed by how you spend your first hour. Check your thoughts, attitude, and heart.” How you begin your day can make your day or break your day. Your attitude and your actions have a strong effect on your whole day.  If you begin the day with worry or stress, then that is what your mindset will be.  That is what you will attract. So, don’t let any disappoint...

Morning Mantra: “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.” My idea of success has really changed over the years. When I was young, I used to buy into the definition of success as being popular, making straight A’s, having a lot of cool stuff. Then I was influenced by our societal definition and thought I needed a big career, lots of money and fancier things.  If I didn...

Morning Mantra: “I used to guard my heart, now I guard my peace.” Being at peace means that you no longer have the need to prove anything to anyone. You don’t need outside validation, you don’t need to tell your side of the story anymore. You know your peace is worth more than proving yourself to anyone. To protect your peace, it’s OK to cancel the commitment.  It’s OK not to take the call.  It’s...

Morning Mantra: “This your life! Do what you love and do it often.” Sometimes you have to take a step back and quiet your mind to realize what’s important in your life. What you can live with, but more importantly, what you can’t live without. Be willing to open your mind, arms and heart to new things. Things that excite you.  Things you always wanted to try.  It's never too late to be who yo...

Morning Mantra: "The brightest people help other people shine." Sometimes you find people who have sunshine inside them. It’s not just their smile, but their entire presence just brightens your world. They have an internal being that shines so bright. It feels like the sun warming your soul.  It's contagious. It's infectious.  It's marvelous. These people who shine from wi...

Morning Mantra: “Once you choose hope, anything is possible.” If you only carry one thing throughout your entire life, let it be hope.  Let it be hope that better things are always ahead.  Let it be hope that you get through even the toughest of times.  Let it be hope that you are stronger than any challenge that comes your way.  Let it be hope that you’re exactly where you’re supposed to be right...

Morning Mantra: “I trust the next chapter because I know the author. And the author is me.” Isn’t it great that you get to write the story of your life?  You get to decide the characters that are in it.  You get to decide how the main character (you) will think, feel, act, and interact with the supporting characters. Sure, the plot may have some unexpected twists that surprise you, but you get to...

Morning Mantra: “When you have a really bad day, try to treat the world better than it treated you.” Some days life is just hard. And some days are just rough. And some days you have to cry before you move forward. And all of that is OK. Yesterday was one of those days for me.  Nothing went right. My horse is lame, my business went into chaos, I found a tick on me, and I received a disappointing l...

Morning Mantra: “The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.” Here’s a challenge for today (well for everyday until it becomes unnecessary). Every time a negative thought comes into your mind, challenge yourself to think of two positive things about yourself, or your situation. It’s time to flip the script in your head. Changing your thoughts can change your life.  There is...

Morning Mantra: “Stop cutting yourself into tiny pieces, stay whole and let them choke.” This quote is from a really good book, "Women don't owe you pretty." by Florence Gibbons.  In it she explains that many women live the "splintered life", with fragmented version of themselves.  They’ve chosen the versions of themselves that they think are ideal, acceptable, approachabl...

Morning Mantra: “Be what you loved about those that are gone.” My father was a WWII veteran.  His birthday was a few days ago- he would have turned 99. When I think about him I get sad so I try to focus on everything that I love about him instead of how much I miss him. On Memorial Day we honor those that are gone.  Those that served our country well. It’s also a great day to honor those in your l...

Morning Mantra: “You have to put up with some rain to get the rainbow.” Life is interesting in the way you must experience the negative to appreciate the positive. We all want to avoid anything negative or unpleasant, but when you think about it, you’d have nothing to compare to if you never experienced the opposite. You must experience pain to understand compassion. You must experience how cruel...

Morning Mantra: “You are deserving of harmony, serenity, and happiness always.” Lead a life of your own design, on your own terms, not one that others, or the environment have scripted for you. Let go, make room, and breathe. Be it people or things, if they don’t hold positive space in your heart or in your thoughts, you can let them go.  Your time, your energy, and your joy hold more value than a...

Morning Mantra: “Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, and all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as you as you can.” You are here to enrich the world, and you cheapen your value when you forget this. Too many people feel that they have nothing to offer the world.  They don’t recognize the fact that simply being wh...

Morning Mantra: “If you never heal from what hurt you, you’ll bleed on people that didn’t cut you.” So many of us have turned healing into becoming this super perfect version of ourselves and that is just anxiety waiting to happen. Healing is not becoming the best version of yourself. Healing is letting the worst version of yourself be loved. The version that has a hard time forgiving.  The versio...

Morning Mantra: “Within me lies the strength to cope and continue.” You’ve been through 1000 things in your life that people don’t know about. You’ve experienced things that have shook you, changed you, broken you, built you, and taught you to be stronger than you ever thought you had the ability to be.  You are who you are because of all of this. So, the next time someone judges you based on the...