be more dolly

Today is not my usual Wednesday wellness tip, but more of a reflection following the passing of the wonderful Dolly Parton ❤️

Some people invest their money. Dolly Parton invested in people. Here are some ways you can honour Dolly’s memory, embody her values, and carry on her legacy:

📚 Donate a book to a school, your public library, community center, or a little free library. “The seeds you plant in your community can grow across the world”. Dolly started her @imaginationlibrary in honour of her dad and it has delivered over 280 million books globally since 1995!

🎶 Create something unique and share it with the world - you have many gifts.

💅 Be yourself - Dolly never pretended to be or look like anyone other than herself.

👣 You don’t have to follow the same path as everyone else and you can always pivot. It’s your journey, your chosen speed, and your own rules - Dolly reminds us that, “If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one”

🧠 “Regret is unfair to yourself” - You couldn’t possibly have known then what you know now. The decisions you made were based on the knowledge you had at that time, not the knowledge you have now.

🫶Use what you’ve been given to help others. Find out who you are and do it on purpose every day.

💃🏻Live life fully. Dolly said, “Don’t get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life”

🪾If you fall down, pick yourself back up and try again because “storms make trees take deeper roots”

In honour of Dolly Parton, let’s choose to be generous, stay humble, spread kindness, keep your sense of humour, remember your roots, and never lose our sparkle ✨