Fall down, Get back up!!… even if you need to rest first.
That’s ok.❤️
Life is hard. What makes it a blessing is what you do with your experience!
Use your challenge as opportunities to learn and share your experience!
Fall Down… Get. Back. Up!
Category: Food For Thought
I Am The Cage AND The Key
How many times do we feel stuck?
I know I feel that way often… especially in this never-ending alternate reality we seem to be living in since February 2020.
Are there things we cannot change and control? YES!
Do they outnumber or outweigh the things we CAN control? 🤔 I say, NO!!
It’s easy to forget how truly powerful the individual is while being bombarded with so much “noise” from the media, social or otherwise.
Where does Personal Power exist?
- Our CHOICES: How do I choose to perceive, feel, react to what is happening to me and around me? What Action will it take (or not take)?
- Our ATTITUDE: Do I see this event, incident, interaction as positive or negative? An opportunity or a stumbling block? A Chance to grow and learn or a Victimization?
- Our ability to seek/ask for HELP: where do you go for assistance and support? Are those supportive, positive people/places? Are those angry, wallowing people places?
The above 3 Personal Power “Keys” are only effective if they are Empowering you to open the Cage. Otherwise, they ARE your Cage.
Your thoughts?
My Daily Prayer
Thank You, Pinterest!
Victims, Crybabies, Lazy Thinkers, and Bullies
I feel like this is a commentary on ALL OF SOCIETY these days.
It used to just be a commentary on CHILDISH BEHAVIOR.
WOW! How things have changed! Not for the better. 🤦🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️
I’m still trying to pin point the moment society flipped…
People like Soldiers, Police, Doctors, Innovators, and Doers were our HEROES!!
When did it become a GOOD THING to be:
- A Victim
- A Whiner
- A Lazy Thinker
Now, people idolize Victims, Crybabies, and Bullies.
LIFE IS NOT FAIR. Never has been, never will be.
We are charged with the task of overcoming obstacles!
Pull up your Grown Up Pants and GET OVER IT!
Do the WORK.
Makes me sad to think the culture my daughter is growing up in doesn’t fit a single thing we’ve taught her to value.
May Is Mental Health Awareness Month
What Is Anger?
Faults or Achievements: What Legacy Is More Important?
Found on Pinterest while browsing for inspiration.
The George Washington Carver List really touched me. Also included are quotes by other Great Minds, Leaders, and Speakers: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Maya Angelou, and Thomas Sowell.
I think we often forget the wisdom of our past by belittling history’s accomplishments because we don’t agree with the social or societal “norms” of the time.
It’s important to look at all our Forefathers: Political, and Social leaders through the lens of what life was at like in their time.
Just because society wasn’t perfect, or an individual historical figure wasn’t perfect, does NOT DISMISS their overwhelming accomplishments.
Someday, people are going to look back on THIS time and judge.
How do you want to be judged?
By all the things you did and tried to do?
By your very human failings and mistakes?
We ALL have them.
God said, “Let he without sin cast the first stone.”
I am imperfect. I’ve made mistakes, hurt people, made bad choices.
I HOPE when I am gone, those are not the focus of my legacy.
I hope when I’m gone, I am remembered for the good I tried to add to the world. The love and time I gave to family and friends and strangers; for accepting people as they are, not how I wish they were.
What do you you want your legacy to include?
You don’t like me? That’s OKAY!
One of my most difficult life lessons has been accepting that it’s ok that not all people like me. I don’t like everyone either!
More important than that lesson is that it is ok to disagree AND still like and respect another person or not 😉.
More often than not, something that bothers me in someone else, is a BIGGER version of a failing I see in myself.
Let’s all try to spend some time thinking about this:
Difference of opinion and experience is what makes us each unique. We can learn from each other, disagree with each other, even not like each other… and STILL Be respectful.
Being polite does not have to be connect or equivalent to liking or agreeing with another person.
Compassion is key.
Riding the “Struggle Bus”
There are Days. Weeks. Months. Where the only thing keeping me going is my dark, sarcastic sense of humor… and :
- Prayer
- Meditation
- Gratitude
- My Family
- Nature
These keep me hanging on when I’m struggling hard with my twin monsters: Depression and Anxiety.
2020-2021 has been a B**** Of a year! The struggle to keep moving forward is DAILY.
I don’t know who else needs to hear this:
If you got out of bed today, you’re wining.
If you kept going despite your trials, you’re wining.
If all you did was move from bed to couch… good for you!
If you made a gratitude list and you felt it for even a few minutes 🎉.
If you reached out for help ⭐️⭐️⭐️
If you showered and got dressed, YEAH!!!
My LOVE and Prayer go out to everyone who is on the “Struggle Bus” with me and doing what they can to not give up the fight! ❤️
HUGS!❤️❤️❤️
Integrity: Where Do YOU Stand?
Integrity. Such an important word.
I have been feeling as though our society has lost all perspective on Integrity: it’s meaning and importance to our daily living.
As our culture has lost faith in the foundations on which America has always stood, we have lost belief in our leaders’ integrity; and therefore lost our belief in its very existence.
Integrity is a personal value that is extremely important in how we live. Integrity influences our choices, decisions, and actions.
Take some time today to contemplate your views on Integrity: is it a value to you? Do you believe it is important? Is it important to teach your children? To model for others? To be a leader?
Empowerment.Vitality.Evolution. 