I don’t know about you, but I am not sitting around wishing I had fame, influence, or even more attention.
I think most of us just want our lives to matter. ❤️🥰🙋🏻♀️
And some seasons have meaning, connection, and purpose inherently baked in.
We thought it was US being all awesome.
Then the season changes.
The kids leave.
Or they just get a little older and start acting kinda mean. 😳😂
The role changes.
The need shifts.
The room feels different.
Our bodies feel different.
And suddenly we feel weird and slowed and eventually even stuck.
Which feels heavier than we would have ever expected.
I don’t think we were ever meant to get smaller.
Nor do we have to stay that way.
❤️❤️❤️
Mary L Thompson
I help mid-life moms regain their sense of self and direction using my signature STRONG & Significant coaching program
Are you tired of feeling like you’re somehow both “stuck” and “drifting”? Flight Deck Life School can help you:
• find meaning where you are,
• faith to move you forward, and
• purpose to propel you. Hi, I’m Mary, and I want to help you gain the knowledge and insight to confidently build the life your heart desires – even if you're still zeroing in on what that even is! I can honestly say I’ve d
Have you ever solved the wrong problem? 🤦🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️🙋🏻♀️
In a recent coaching session, one of my clients was processing something new and uncertain.
She didn’t know the outcome. Didn’t fully understand what she was walking through. Didn’t know what she was even doing yet.
And then she stopped herself and said:
“But I need to remember. God knows. And He wants the very best for me.”
Oh my word, yes! We talk about this ALL the time, but it’s different to remember it when actual life is happening.
The Lord knows all of it. And He wants the very best for you.
I don’t mean this in a “this hard thing will eventually lead to something good” way (though that can also be true.)
I mean this in a “He knows how to give good gifts to those who ask Him” way.
Present tense.
Active.
Now.
So if you’ve been white-knuckling your life and
trying to manage every moving piece,
fix every loose end,
figure out every outcome before you can exhale 😅😳😬
Here’s a different option.
Try praying this:
“Lord, I care about this. A lot. But Your Word says You care for me. So I’m casting the care and the worry on You. You are well able to take care of that which I’ve entrusted to You.”
That’s not passive. That’s not giving up.
That’s casting what you were never supposed to carry in the first place.
And opening your hands to receive the good gifts God’s already sending your way. ❤️
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05/09/2024
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02/02/2024
Well, good morning! ☀️ 🌅
Month of January I experimented with an earlier wake-up time. Jury is still out what I’ll do going forward but today is February and it’s Friday and I gave myself an extra hour—and woke up in a dawn-ish dark rather than a dark dark.
And by the time I got to my coffee pot (thank You, Lord!) THIS was happening right outside my front door!
Definitely worth a step outside!
Here’s to finding beauty and loveliness wherever and whenever it shows up! 🌸🌹🌳
12/15/2023
Today's to do item, brought to you by end-of-year overwhelm!
An important part of every day, week, month, and year for me is reflection coupled with re-calibrating, so today I was looking at my brain dump from Monday and here--you're witnessing something I put down as my actual to-do.
"Figure out my life."
Seriously? What might that even mean? 🤷🏻♀️😳🤔
Even funnier, it's sandwiched in between approximately a million other to do's such as finish Christmas shopping, prep for client meetings, and do some Christmas crafts. The list was written in the waiting room while I was getting a car serviced! Figure out my life? How does one schedule that?
Here's the truth, though. The brain dump is ALWAYS a good first step to getting my life and myself figured out.
Flight Deck exists to help all of us get to a place of peace and purpose and unfortunately "figuring out our lives" is not a one-and-done item we can check off our list. It's a lifetime quest and we all have both good and not-as-good days in how connected to that peace and purpose we feel.
Back toward the beginning of the week, sometime after writing that to-do item, I pulled out "8 Ideas to Establish Your Life." It's a free resource to help with mindset. It helped me a ton--which might seem weird. I wrote “8 Ideas”, so I know it, but we have to constantly be grounding ourselves in truth or we'll get swept up in the craziness all around us.
The Reflection and Intention is part of the BUILD course, also available in the bio or on Flight Deck's website.
Just a few minutes a day with these resources could be a game-changer for your mindset through this season, and set you up to go into 2024 stronger!
As for me, I’ll head back to the list and see what more I can check off before the weekend! ✅
I’m excited for the next few weeks, and cool with figuring out my life one-step-at-a-time! 🪜🚶🏻♀️
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