I learned that changing your vocabulary from car (drive, stuck) to boat (drawn, becalmed) can change your entire attitude about a situation.

I learned that if you make space, life will fill it.

I learned that “you are the only person on Earth who can use your ability.”

I learned how to reinvent yourself, rather than stay in your past self.

I learned that love is ugly, and generosity is often one-sided when it should be a two-way street of giving and accepting.

I learned that there’s nothing fluffy about self-love – it can be challenging, terrifying, and hard as hell.

I learned that you are the only authority on you – no one does you better than, well, you.

I learned that building momentum is easiest with small, unfailable tasks, rather than large challenges that can kill enthusiasm with too much difficulty too early in the game.

I learned that I am not the only one who uses structured procrastination as a system of productivity. Huzzah!

I learned three lessons from the ocean that really emphasize enduring quality and actual experience over I-read-about-it-somewhere knowledge.

I learned that the infamous V-day doesn’t have to suck (and also that this person is a ninja at making people happy).

And I learned that we are not, in fact, done with snow yet: