What if not winning wasn’t the same as losing?


Hi Reader,

In 2018, a teenager sat alone outside the Swedish parliament with a handmade sign: School Strike for Climate.

At first, she didn’t get much attention. People walked past her. Nothing really changed.

But Greta Thunberg's act of quiet defiance sparked a global wave.

Within months, millions of young people around the world were walking out of class to demand climate justice. A movement was born.

And still, Greta hasn’t “won.”
The climate crisis rages on.
Fossil fuel giants are doubling down.
Governments keep failing the next generation.

But that doesn’t mean she lost. Not having won is not the same as losing.

Greta’s actions have changed the world.
And the fact that we haven’t won yet doesn’t mean we stop.

This is the paradox we live in:
You might feel like you’re not making a difference.
And still, you might be making the biggest one.

We don’t get to measure transformation by how loud it is.
Or how many likes it gets.
Or how quickly it blooms.

Sometimes, your presence shifts the energy in a room in ways that change someone’s life.
Sometimes, your refusal to give up keeps something sacred alive.
Sometimes, the love you offer ripples so far out, it blesses someone you’ll never meet.

And sometimes? You won’t feel like you’re making a difference.
But that doesn’t mean you’re not.

Liberation means being with that truth.
Not needing the guarantee.
Doing the sacred work anyway.
Because it’s who you are.
Because it’s what this moment asks.
Because the long arc only bends when we keep showing up, again and again and again (and again).

So if it feels slow, small, invisible…
Do not stop.

You’re not here to be seen.
You’re here to be of service.
And that, in the end, is what shifts the world.

That’s the real magic.
And you’re already doing it.

Courage, truth, and infinite love,


I don’t believe in magic, but I know that it works!

Magic is not a belief system, it’s a practice that works. Don’t believe me? Come try it out. If it doesn’t work, you lose nothing. But if it does… your dream life is about to begin!


“El poder está en la acción.”

— Maritza Schafer

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