What was hard yesterday may not seem so hard today.
What was hard a year ago may seem easy today. "Problems" you faced as a child seem foolish today. Embrace the struggles in your life.... Do not judge your hardships. Do not take what is hard today as something insignificant or as something you can't overcome. Embrace your struggles, look them in the face and figure out how to overcome them. You have no choice but to keep overcoming your hardships and keep growing mentally and emotionally. Take on every difficult time, be thankful for the strength it's giving you,the lessons it's teaching you and the faith you are blessed with to get through it. Do not judge your hard times or those of another for we do not know their hearts or their minds. Hard times in life open up the door for us to truly appreciate the good times! Difficult times open up doors we never dreamed possible; IF you bloom from those times! If we do not go through hard things, we do not know what greatness feels like! Just like working out makes you physically stronger, hard times makes us mentally and emotionally stronger. Hard times make you spiritually and faithfully stronger....IF YOU allow it! Appreciate the struggle, Learn through the struggle, Grow through the struggle, Look around you as you go through struggles....who is there with you? What can you trust? Who and what can you rely on? What good do you see? What good can you find? What makes you happy? Find glimmers of light when you're going through a hard time and have faith that this too shall pass...because it will!! I have been through those times and I have survived and overcome and SO CAN YOU!! I leave you with one of my favorite poems that has gotten me through some gloomy days. (I had this written on my planner for 2016)
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Love: a word that could possibly have the most undefined meaning of any word in our language. I googled the definition of love and most were short descriptions often related to the love we feel for a romantic partner. But love is much more than that, as we all know! Love is a word that can change your outlook on life. It can change a relationship, bring a smile to your soul or break your heart into a million pieces. One's own definition of love can destroy or bring peace. Love is the most majestic and meaningful word in our language. We share love with our family, with our friends, with our partners and our children. Each one of these relationships defining love in a completely different way. Love has caused the worst heartbreaks I've ever seen, and at the same time brought the greatest joy to a person's life. Love can heal parts of your soul that you didn't even know were broken or it can rip open parts you didn't even know existed. Love is supposed to be a word that brings nothing but elation and exhilaration to your world, but what happens when it doesn't? How do our hearts heal from being left or abandoned by the very people who were never supposed to turn their backs on you? The answer is simple.....you open your heart and receive and give more love! I know first hand that we can't control who we love, we can't control who loves us and we can't control how long we love someone, but we can allow our hearts to continue the life cycle of loving. We can let our hearts continue to love regardless of our pasts and flourish love into our future. We can willingly and whole heartedly welcome more and different loves into our lives! Never disregard love Never take love for granted Never give up on love Always love to love Always cherish and honor the ones you love Always invite more love into your life Always remember....... Keep giving and receiving love my friends!! Namaste
LIFE.....it's a word that encompasses so much! A word that I don't think can truly be defined. This word changes meanings as we grow, as we age and as we evolve. Sure the word "life" can be defined in a dictionary, it can be described by scientists and doctors, but much like love; life and living is in the eye of the beholder!
If you asked me today what life means to me, I would say being true to your heart and soul. I would say following your wildest dreams and loving every second with those who mean the most to you. Life to me means knowing every minute and every second is a gift and that we are not given life, but rather life is given to us. Life is something that is complex, yet so simple. Life is love, Life is here and now, Life is intertwined with others, Life is the act of living, Life is beautiful, Life is hard, Life is in this moment, Life is energy, Life is helping others live, Life is this planet, Life is breathing, Life doesn't make sense, Life makes perfect sense, LIFE IS YOU....LIFE IS ME! Tell me what life means to you...comment with what life means to you! There's a few things I've learned over the past year......
The difference in the people that say they love you and the people that TRULY love you. That you will always face challenges...but it's up to you and only you how you deal with them. When that challenge is over will people think you are a strong, loving, caring kind person? Will you be proud of yourself for how you handled that hard time in your life or will you be ashamed? The way people speak of you and treat you is a direct reflection of their character NOT yours! There is family and then there is FAMILY. Family isn't always blood but family is ALWAYS love "I would never have asked for this trial, but I would never give it away." Hold your head high...believe in yourself...love yourself...be kind to yourself...trust your intuition and trust your heart. Forgiveness to those who have hurt you is hard...forgiveness to those that don't apologize or see their wrong doing is even harder. "Go where you're celebrated not where you're tolerated." But be kind, loving and tolerant. One of the hardest lessons...especially when it comes to people who are close to you..."It's none of your business what other people think of you." "Often it's the deepest pain which empowers you to grow into your highest self" Karen Salmansohn There will always be evil and hate....that does not mean you have to feed into it, listen to it or agree with it. Be YOU! Feed the love, ignore the hate. Grow, learn, love, blossom....bloom! Remember that no one is going to make your dreams come true....it is your job to wake up daily, work hard, stay focused, stay dedicated and move toward things that are seeded deepest into your heart. Enjoy every step of your journey and never wish you are already at the end of it. One of the hardest and most fulfilling lessons learned in life is that it's none of your business what others think of you. I have heard this, read this and been told this by influential people in my life, but until I was faced with this challenge the words meant nothing.
We are constantly faced with individuals who scrutinize and question us, people who if given the opportunity will suck us into their negativity and unhappiness, but it is our duty to our higher selves to release these people's perceptions of us. When we can learn that it truly is none of our business-our hearts will be free, our souls will be happier and our lives will be more fulfilling. I found it to be so incredibly hard to do this, I let the thoughts of others bring me down, put me into a dark place and affect how I lived my everyday life until one day I decided I had enough. I no longer wanted the thoughts of others to hold me prisoner. I no longer wanted to be unhappy over things I had no control over. I no longer wanted to be held back, I no longer wanted to give my life over to people who didn't even honor or care for me..... but until that moment of what seemed like darkness I could not really get over what others thought of me. So instead of going to that dark place where you have let other's judgements affect your life, I challenge you to release the thoughts now. I challenge you to focus your time and energy on things that create goodness and love in your life. Do not give other people the power to control your life. Do not let the love you have of life and others be taken away because someone's misinterpretation of you. You are amazing! You are full of love and light! You are constantly evolving into your best self. You are you! Allow NOONE to take that from you! Honor and spend time with those who want to grow and flourish. You see not everyone has love and enlightenment in their heart. Not everyone wishes to empower others so guess what...........it's none of your business what they think about YOU!! When we can truly grasp that statement we will be so much happier and have so much more room in our lives for progress. PS...I absolutely believe this process was part of my journey and was something that I could not overcome without experiencing it first hand, but if you can learn to let go before you let the thoughts of others have had such an impact you can spend that time growing in other ways. When I conquered this I felt liberated and free! My path before me seemed to open up! We literally build walls in our lives, but we also have the ability to move those walls and create new paths. GROW...CONQUER...EVOLVE U.... I have to take a moment to thank all the wonderful women(and men) in my life that show on a daily, weekly, monthly or even yearly basis that I am living my life just as I should be. I am human just like you and I have moments when I doubt myself and my life, but then I take a look around at my life and know with good faith that I am just where I'm supposed to be. So I ask you to do the same.
I talk to women it seems like daily who are questioning so much in their life and harboring anger about events or people in their lives. We (women) are often guilty of carrying around the struggles of others, resentment of a lifetime and misinterpretation of what we truly are blessed with. Then we continue to ask ourselves why we aren't happy...how could we be when we are being weighed down by things that are beyond or out of our control? It's time...It's time to release anger, resentment and the problems of life. It's time to focus our attention on the greatness of life! Be gracious for all those magnificent things that enter your life on a daily basis! Do you have a roof over your head? Have you been blessed with children? Do you have a job? Do you have food and clothing? Do you have friends you can turn to? Do you have family who loves you? Do you have a bed to lay your head on? Are you blessed with eyes to see? Ears to hear? A nose to smell? Skin to feel? A heart that beats? See.....there is so much beauty in life! Now pray, believe, have faith and focus on all that is good. Release the negative and focus purely on the positive! You will begin to see a change in your life almost instantly! Be who you are destined to be by believing, living with happiness in your heart and the ability to release those things which you cannot control. Have confidence and faith in your life and YOUR JOURNEY! YOUR LIFE IS YOUR JOURNEY..NOONE ELSE'S. |
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